Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than three or four Jap divisions are in immediate contact with Allied troops. Probably not more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers have been knocked out. The Japs still have almost 3,500,000-about 750,000 in Manchukuo, 800,000 in China, perhaps 100,000 in Indo-China, Malaya and Thailand, more than 75,000 in Burma, perhaps 90,000 in the southern islands, and all the rest in "depot" divisions in Formosa and Japan...
...prevalent that the cannibalism of 1919 may again strike eastern Europe. Railroads that should carry these desperate people will be totally disorganized; horses may all have been eaten. No reserves of fuel and clothing will be on hand; no state authorities will exist to guide them. China, Japan, Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies will repeat this picture in other versions...
...forces in the Philippines; MacArthur was looking to Corregidor and Bataan, and Admiral Hart's Asiatic "Fleet" of cruisers and destroyers was on its way to glory and futility in the Indies. Guam had fallen; Wake had a few days of glory left. The Japs were in Malaya, headed for Singapore. The Prince of Wales and the Repulse-pillars of British and U.S. sea power in the western Pacific-were gone. People at home were saying that the whole U.S. fleet was at the bottom of the Pacific, and profane Admiral King was saying to his colleagues...
...educated at Catholic convents in Manhattan and France. She studied music in Paris, worked for the British Red Cross in World War I. She has followed her Navy husband (now "somewhere at sea") to stations in China, Europe, the West Indies, has traveled in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Malaya, India...
...Washington last December when Winston Churchill and some of Britain's top military men visited the U.S. Such details as the size and nature of the forces to be sent to the fronts were settled later, but the choice of the fronts themselves remains unchanged. The loss of Malaya, Singapore and Java, events on the Russian front, the agitation for a second front, later conferences in London, Washington and Moscow, Joseph Stalin's demand for the fulfilment of Allied obligations "fully and on time"?none of these factors has materially altered the plan or the basic elements which originally...