Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with their hands tied to the Axis, could hope only to lose as little as possible; while Thailand, easily egged into the war by Japan, could hardly hope to control whatever it won. Only likely winner was Japan, whose sword-rattling, fleet-maneuvering "mediation'' set all the Orient abuzz, and who will presumably dominate any areas ceded to Thailand...
Quentin Roosevelt '41, who has recently been in the Orient, was in sympathy with Dr. Fairbank, and feels that what may appear to be immediate trouble is really only part of Britain's strategy--one which she must use because of her relative weakness in the East...
...pressure is applied she will be compelled to take certain measures." For the chauvinists, Tokyo Kokumin shrilled that U. S. activity in the Pacific was "approaching a state of war." For the realists, Japanese correspondents in French Indo-China stated: "Japan will move against Anglo-American interests in the Orient and the Dutch East Indies, first attacking Singapore...
Whether or not the battle which was in progress last week would be remembered in history above the great battles of Lord Nelson-the Nile (1798), which broke Napoleon's Oriental ambitions, and Trafalgar'(1805), which limited his ambitions in Europe-remained to be seen. Those affairs exposed the marrow of British power. One summer evening at Abukir Bay, after a maddening two months' search in which his fleet had been without benefit of speedy frigates for scouting, Nelson with his 14 ships of the line came on the fleet of 15 Frenchmen at anchor. Moving down...
...There are ten medical schools in Nationalist China. Held by the Japanese are Peiping Union Medical College ("The Johns Hopkins of the Orient"), St. John's and Aurora in Shanghai...