Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his carrier forces commanding the air over northern Japan, and his gunnery ships commanding the seas within sight of its shores, there was no telling to what lengths Halsey might go in succeeding days. His love of spectacular improvisation knew no limits...
Sure enough, Halsey struck again. Four days later his carrier planes thundered up again out of the dawn. Some struck Hokkaido (pop. 3,300,000), which had never been bombed before. Some struck northern Honshu. Some struck in Tsugaru Strait, where the railroad and automobile ferries run between Aomori (on Honshu) and Hakodate (on Hokkaido), almost the only link between the two islands...
...Prime Minister is short, shifty-eyed Admiral Petros Voulgaris. He harps on two points: 1) the need for "security"; 2) the right of Greece to northern Epirus. now a part of Albania. When I asked what he thought of Americans and Britons in Greece, he said: "I wish they would stay here forever." There is only a handful of U.S. soldiers; the British have several divisions...
...accomplished, India would become an equal partner in the Commonwealth, free (if she so desired) to secede from the Crown. Was Britain not risking "the brightest jewel of the British Crown?" Indians were not Britons linked by ties of blood and sentiment to the islands in the distant northern...
...After the Revolution] the [British] empire adopted a policy similar to that of the last years of the war. Territory to be ceded under the terms of the Treaty of Paris was held and used as headquarters for Indian raids against the northern and western populations.. . . The Indian raids . . . raised such great bitterness in the distressed populations as to bring on the War of 1812, which finally destroyed the Indian power...