Word: orientally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh endured quietly Charles Augustus Lindbergh's fame, the tragedy of a kidnapping, her husband's descent from his pedestal of public divinity, and the publication of two successful books (North to the Orient, Listen! the Wind...
...SECNAV and CINCUS had to say to each other they kept to themselves. They had plenty to talk about. Across the Pacific the clouds massed darkly. Japan, junior member of the Axis, was talking of war if the U. S. didn't like her idea of running the Orient (see p. 40). What goat-faced Fleet Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi had up his Oriental sleeve, neither Frank Knox nor Jo Richardson knew. But Frank Knox had talked tough too, had said that "if a fight is forced upon us we shall be ready." At week...
...potentially commands the Atlantic. It is the terminus of airlines from Europe and interior Africa. It is only 1,700 miles from the tip of Brazil. In German hands it would play merry Neptune with Britain's lanes around Africa-Britain's only sea passage to the Orient with the Mediterranean closed. This winter Britain may sorely need a back door to the Southern Theatre...
Last week with only the shadow of Germany protecting the colonies of defeated France, this storm of Chinese wrath was turned on the whole Western world. For three years, Chinese reasoned, one of the important aims of their fight had been to keep the Orient open to the white man. At any moment China might have had peace by abandoning him and joining the Japanese New Order in Asia. Yet China fought on. In return the Western democracies had helped China considerably, but first through witlessness and later through helplessness had done considerably more to smooth the path of Japan...
Proud is Seattle of her position as "U. S. gateway to Alaska and the Orient." And proud is Seattle of great, 20-mile-long Lake Washington, which Seattle considers hers although it stretches far beyond the city limits. Lake Washington is beautiful but sometimes a nuisance. Seattle's main gateway to the east is North Bend on the Sunset Highway, until recently a 42-mile ride. The road could have been 14 miles shorter had not Lake Washington lain athwart...