Word: orients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter also appealed for a complete embargo against Japan saying that Japanese supremacy in the Far East would necessitate a U. S. military and naval establishment in the Orient. As a further measure to prevent Japanese hegemony over China, "all aid to China" was recommended in the letter...
After reading TIME'S advertisement in the papers, I bought my first copy of the magazine in weeks and there I found the most complete, accurate and fair estimate of the true situation in the Orient that I have yet to read in any magazine...
...Corps' fighting has been done while the nation was at peace. Without the thrust of wartime patriotism and the applause of the folks at home, Marines have gone thirsty and lousy, won medals, died. Today a whole regiment camps in Shanghai, the hottest spot in the troubled Orient, where a sergeant's blunder might throw the nation into war with Japan. In such spots, the Marine Corps' mercenaries do the job as they have been taught to do it. Their reward will be another campaign ribbon to pin on the breast of their blue tunics...
Said he: "America needs no superman. It denies the philosophy that runs to the deification of the state." He looked ahead to a world in troubled peace, the demobilization of millions, the final loss of U. S. markets in Europe, the Orient, Africa, Latin America ("The record of the last seven years is proof sufficient that the Roosevelt Administration is incapable of meeting this situation . . ."). He summed up: "And yet this Administration, in nonchalant and sprightly fashion, bluntly asks the American people to grant it at least an additional four years of power...
...Japan threatened more Far Eastern colonies, Secretary Hull: 1. Put off Philippine independence-promised this January-until 1945. 2. Officially urged U. S. citizens to leave the Orient. 3. Urged Congress to rush Guam fortifications. 4. Sent 6 U. S. destroyers into the East China Sea. 5. Publicly consulted J. Edgar Hoover on the 5th Column problem in Hawaii...