Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overwhelming majority of the U.S. is against any compromise whatsoever in the Pacific war, according to the latest FORTUNE Survey of Public Opinion. More than 80% of the people questioned declared they would not settle for withdrawal of Japanese forces from China, Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies, etc. as a condition of leaving the Japanese homeland unoccupied. Like their Government, they stood for unconditional surrender-everywhere...
Nanning fell. Far south in China, Chinese armies snapped the railroad lifeline (now at last referred to as a line of retreat) for Japan's armies in Malaya, Thailand and Indo-China. Farther north, other Chinese armies hacked doggedly at the same strategic artery whose seizure by Japan a year ago brought China to the brink. On the central coast a third Chinese force, having dislodged the Japanese from the port of Foochow, fanned north and west, preparing a possible landing zone for U.S. forces...
...British Admiralty announced that a Japanese 10,000-ton, eight-inch-gun cruiser had been attacked by torpedo planes and finished by five British destroyers in the Malacca Strait off Penang, Malaya...
...Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Southeast Asia commander, was now able to consider: 1) a move to cut off the Malay peninsula by a thrust through Moulmein to Bangkok; 2) a drive at southern Malaya and Singapore by way of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean...
...theater was watery and vast, extending from the Kurils to Jap-held Java, from the Carolines to central China. The job was vast. Thailand, Indo-China, Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies-a world in themselves-had to be cleared. China had to be freed. Before victory, Japan had to be brought to the same terms as the other Axis partner: unconditional surrender...