Word: orientally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December 1938, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, then Premier of Japan, made a famous speech in which he proclaimed that Japan's aim was the creation of a New Order in East Asia. Ostensibly this meant that the Orient should be for Orientals, working in cooperation with each other; actually, it developed, it was to mean an Orient for the enjoyment of Japan. Recently, after a year and a half's retirement, Prince Konoye returned to power at the head of a quasi-fascist Government. Like a poor but ambitious woman who cocks a new feather...
...added fleet appealed to about half (49.8%), undertaking to guarantee its exports as well, appealed to only 19.5%. Though U. S. foreign policy should be directed to "keeping Japanese ambitions within reasonable bounds" (56.2%), most executives thought this could be accomplished peacefully. They were skeptical about trade with the Orient, reflecting a growing disillusionment with foreign trade. A surprising 29.2% favored U. S. contraction toward self-sufficiency, instead of expanding foreign trade...
...generations the defense of the U. S. has faced west. Into the naval bases at Cavite, P. I. and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii have gone 75-80 millions of dollars for defense against an invader from the Orient. But today, although the U. S. Army and Navy are beginning to develop Alaska air and sea bases as another bulwark against a thrust from Asia, the U. S. defensively faces east toward Europe. For if Germany displaces Britain as mistress of the seas, the U. S. will have lost its insurance policy against trouble in the Atlantic: the British fleet. Until...
...Hocking believes that "we shall see in the Orient the rise of a Christianity far outpassing that which we of the West have conceived, simply because it can recover there so many lost fragments of what is its own." The fusion of spiritual beliefs which he envisages for the world faith of the future will be God-centred rather than Christ-centred: "God is in His world, but Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed are in their little private closets, and we shall thank them, but never return to them...
...only use Italy has for such a land is to threaten Britain's hold on the southern entrance to the Red Sea and the route to the Orient, a hold otherwise confined to the port of Aden across the Gulf and the island of Perim in the strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate to the mandate"). To defend Somaliland, Britain had the Camel Corps, originally formed by British Marine officers to hunt Mohammed bin Abdullah, the "Mad Mullah" who for 20 years (1900-20) carried on a religious revolt until R. A. F. bombing planes drove him into Ethiopia...