Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this gloomy foreboding was right, last week's events indicated where it might be fulfilled. The State Department told 16,883 U. S. citizens living in the Orient to come home. Even businessmen began to face the possibility of war with Japan...
...promise of backing up Japan.) Hitler may well have made the recent tripartite treaty with Japan just to get the U. S. embroiled in the Pacific. And if Britain should go down, the U. S. would be in an unfortunate position, facing a hostile Europe while fighting in the Orient...
...will soon be in the Atlantic. Therefore they would, in cold-blooded terms, prefer to liquidate the fleet of their No. 2 potential enemy, Japan, before they have to face a second threat. In war undertaken in order to keep Japan out of Dutch and British possessions in the Orient, the U. S. would almost certainly have Britain as an ally, a fact which would provide additional insurance against the British Fleet's surrender to Germany. Since Navy men can't be sure that Britain's tight little island may not be battered to bits...
Meanwhile, the U. S. Fleet, now based at Pearl Harbor, would have a chance to act. Convoying tankers, tenders, cargo and repair ships, it could head west to the Orient. Once out of Pearl Harbor the Navy would have to rely on its floating shops and tenders, until it got within range of Singapore. This would involve some risks, but they are risks that most Navy men consider worth while, for under such circumstances they count on winning any major engagement in the neighborhood of the Philippines...
...Sometimes readers ask why TIME devotes so much space to the Orient. It is because TIME has always believed that the day would come when an understanding of that area with its billion people, half the population of the earth, might be of the utmost importance to America...