Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third man who left a mark was Wendell Willkie, whose world-circling trip as the politician without office had an effect perhaps more lasting than the U.S. yet realizes on U.S. relations with Russia and the Orient...
Multiply all this by 100-and I . think you'll know better what it feels like to be a crack correspondent on and off duty in the Orient these days...
...Today the most valuable form of transportation and the scarcest of all is air transportation. We today can well afford, and blessed would we be if we had, 10,000 big four-engine cargo planes that we could supply our forces in the Orient instead of running the hazards of having them sunk on the seas by enemy submarines. If we could carry the millions of tons by air across the Atlantic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, instead of shipping it on the high seas, the losses would be almost nil, and it would be carried there in hours instead...
...manual will be issued to Army and Navy personnel who may be assigned to duty in the tropics of the Orient...
...Father Duhamel was 33, one of ten children. Two of his brothers are in the U.S. armed forces. From boyhood he wanted to be a missionary. In 1939 he got his wish, was sent to the Solomons. One of his brothers suggested that "trouble" was brewing and that the Orient was not a safe place. Said Father Duhamel: "That is what I am going there...