Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extremely unlikely that the U.S. Government will start issuing passports for foreign pleasure travel until at least two years after the last shot has been fired. ... So there is no use getting excited ... at least so far as Europe is concerned. And the less said about the Orient the better...
Alexander also disclosed that a big British fleet was on its way to the Orient-a fleet powerful enough to cope with the whole Japanese Navy, if the latter should happen to get in the way. Almost as he spoke, the Jap radio at Singapore squeaked that 24 British warships had arrived in the Indian Ocean-a force which included four carriers and ten battleships...
...civilians are mostly ignorant peasants from the comparatively remote Ryukyu Islands, and presumably less fanatical than civilians who will be found in Japan proper, Saipan furnishes no perfect example for the future. But Pacific forces have learned a lot about the many problems of occupying enemy territory. And the Orient can learn there that Americans are at their considerate best once victory...
Both the U.S. and Japan took stock of the war in the Orient...
...Federal Economic Administration, the OWI came up with an answer: "One and a half to two years . . . is considered an absolute minimum." Other U.S. authorities recalled Vice Admiral Frederick J. Home's warning of a year ago: the U.S. must prepare to fight the war in the Orient until 1949 if need...