Word: orients
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...larger number-those who are bound for the Orient-will get U.S. furloughs, unless military necessity interferes. Some will go into brief retraining. The Army hopes to move 500,000 men to the U.S. in the peak month (August...
...sense of personal loss, the impulse to render homage were universal. From the St. Lawrence to the Amazon, across Europe and the Middle East, to the Orient and the Antipodes, the leaders had known Franklin Roosevelt at firsthand. In Ottawa William Lyon Mackenzie King expressed Canada's feeling: it is "as if one of our very own had passed away." South Africa's great Jan Christian Smuts ("We two Dutchmen got along splendidly," he had said of his first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves...
General Charles de Gaulle looked at the bright new posters and found them good. They pictured Indo-China's blue skies, palm trees and temples as a backdrop for French tanks and jungle troops. Their slogan: "Yesterday Strasbourg, tomorrow Saigon! Join the French Expeditionary Forces of the Extreme Orient...
...news from the Extreme Orient had more effect than the posters. In Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China, Japanese troops violated the last pretense of French sovereignty, * took full control over France's richest colony (rice, rubber, tin, coal). They arrested Vice-Admiral Jean Decoux, Vichy-appointed Governor General, promptly decreed martial law, a sunset-to-sunrise curfew. In Hanoi, Saigon (strategic harbor on the South China Sea) and other cities they disarmed French and Annamite garrisons. They formally proclaimed the "independence" of the Empire of Annam, province nearest the Philippines...
...pull Alaska's far-flung routes into a tight, efficient network, thus dominate the north completely. If & when that time comes, he has a still greater dream: break out of Alaska on routes already applied for and fly to Seattle, Minneapolis and Chicago, maybe even Russia and the Orient...