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The Occident also is concerned with the Arab world because in the Levant (Syria and Lebanon), France clings to shreds of empire, and will not give them up without a struggle which may well endanger world cooperation for the peace.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Desert Wind | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Victims and Successors. Out went: Field Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, the brilliant, irascible, Occident-hating Army Chief of Staff, opposite number of the U.S.'s George Marshall; and big, competent (to a point) Fleet Admiral Osami ("Elephant") Nagano, opposite number of the U.S.'s Ernie King.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Truk's Echo | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

>A general in whose opinion the noblest productions of the Occident are ice cream and bedpans.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Noses | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

Later, in the air, "time has ceased to run sterile through my fingers. Now, finally, I am installed in my function . . . an organism integrated into the plane. . . . The battle between the Nazi and the Occident was reduced to the scale of my job." At that point he realized that if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If it die | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Not all of Shanghai's plutocratic big bosses, the taipans, do their drinking at the Shanghai Club, or their business in air-conditioned offices along The Bund. Back of the skyscraper skyline along the Whangpoo River, where the Occident meshes with China, is the biggest, toughest, richest big-city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tough Taipan | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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