Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saving of the Far East is another matter. In the Orient the U.S. is not an unarmed nation; its naval muscles command from Japan a respect which Hitler does not grant the U.S. military muscles. Toward Japan Welles has had a clear policy of distrust. But again he has been an "appeaser," because he has consistently favored trading with Japan until the U.S. is ready for any consequences. Last week he had come to the bottom of the diplomatic barrel. There were almost no diplomatic moves left unmade. The problem of the Japanese would sooner or later be turned over...
...completed by the men who began it. Borda, a heavy speculator, went broke several times before he went broke for good. But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped. The gold leaf of the parroquia came from the Philippines...
Over these island stepping-stones the U.S. was forging a chain about the Japanese Empire. One after another for months PBY flying boats have flown into the Orient. Hundreds of U.S.-made planes are poised on Dutch airfields in the Indies : Martin bombers, Curtiss pursuits. Singapore hangars are filling with Lockheed Hudsons and Brewster Buffalos...
...would presumably: 1) enable the U.S. to fight in the Atlantic without fear of attack by Japan; 2) enable Japan to pursue her adventures in the Pacific without fear of attack by the U.S. Or it might be a cunning Axis plot to divert U.S. attention away from the Orient...
...Dolan, who was a Daily News ace in the Golden Age of Manhattan tabloids. Boston-born in 1898, he groomed himself for his career by heading to sea at 14, driving an army truck in New Jersey during World War I. After the war, he traveled to the Orient, worked on Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Shanghai Gazette, also served on the Far Eastern Review...