Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...losing this war by default. We spent two years backing out of Europe, and it will take us less time, apparently, to back out of the Orient. The Russians alone are advancing, and they can hardly be expected to continue without support. Unless we have the courage and the initiative to give up passive defense for active offense we shall very shortly find ourselves executing a strategic retreat from Cambridge, and retiring to defend Belmont Hill...
These talks, given every Thursday night at 8 o'clock in the Kirkland House Common Room, are also intended to give Mil Sci students an idea of the causes of this war and to orient them to the present situation...
...such a plan. They had, in speeches and editorials, been urging just that. Some believe that Winston Churchill came to Washington to sell just that bill of goods. And yet it began to be realized in London last week that the Churchill Government has mishandled affairs in the Orient. The Prime Minister himself knows little of the subject except what he learned as an enthusiastic poloist in a Punjab regiment in Kipling's India. A Cabinet shake-up was demanded...
Faux Pas. The critics, upset by defeats in the Orient, not only made charges of British bungling and greed, but also attacked the Government's entire conception of the world crisis. Countless Britons had been shocked to hear Anthony Eden, on his return from Russia, declare: "The trouble with Hitler . . . was not that he was a Nazi at home; the trouble with him was that he would not stay at home." To many this sounded as though their Foreign Secretary, and by inference others in the Government, had a curiously warped notion of Naziism...
...enemy for only 21,000. Among themselves, Chinese had learned to discount their press ta hua-big talk. They did not realize that Americans, unused to Chinese newspaper ways, were accepting Chungking statements at face value, that editorialists were using every sliver of American bright news from the dark Orient as an editorial springboard...