Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn the day before, the Japanese had attacked savagely all along the whole great U.S. island-bridge which stretches to the Orient...
Last week thunderheads were gathering all over Tommy Hart's Orient. U.S. Marines were ordered to abandon Shanghai, other Chinese stations-lest they be massacred when war came (see p. 29). Australian troops swarmed into Singapore and Canadian troops into Hong Kong in preparation for new Japanese aggression. And at bases from Sydney to Manila, British, Dutch and U.S. ships prepared for action. Already U.S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had trumpeted: "The hour of decision is here." Tommy Hart was the man for that hour...
...doubts "whether most Americans realize the ex tent of the fall of liberal civilization in Europe, the thorough sweep of old stand ards and values." In chapters like The Russian Revolt Against Civilization; Ital ian Fascism: Middle Class Bolshevism; The German Power Machine; The Clash of Revolutions in the Orient; The Fall of France; America Faces the Iron Age, he makes sure that they will...
...Orient Japan installed a new Cabinet, whose apparent aim would swiftly bring war to the Pacific...
...strike, was the first woman to be fed forcibly in U.S. prison history. When the case was appealed Mrs. Sanger lost, but the way was opened for physicians to give birth-control advice. After she was released she stumped up & down the U.S., campaigned all over Europe and the Orient, found time to raise three children...