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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...
...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...
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...