Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What of China? If Russia and Japan can reach an agreement on spheres of influence in China, China may find herself Poland. But if Russia continues to send supplies to the Chinese, China may gain by the pact. Last week the U. S. gave China a $25,000,000 credit, and Britain will doubtless reopen the Burma Road. Both Britain and the U. S. now desperately need China's aid in keeping Japan too busy to spread out into the East Indies...
Battle of the Oceans. The great battle had already begun. Pundit Walter Lippmann called it the Battle of the Oceans. The day before the pact was signed he wrote: "The battles over England and northern Europe and in the English Channel, at Gibraltar, toward Egypt and Suez, at Dakar in Africa and in French Indo-China are the opening battles of a great campaign in which there is at stake . . . the mastery of the oceans of the world...
...French Indo-China a lone "token" bomber, and since there is a good railroad from Haiphong to strategic Saigon to the south, this single stroke practically sewed up the western flank. The eastern flank, comprising the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, was also partially blanketed-by the three-way pact. The pact was largely directed at the U. S., and in Washington it was believed that an extension of the U. S. embargo to cover oil would mean an immediate Japanese move on Borneo, Sumatra and Java...
...Egypt and certainly a fifth column. There were, in fact, so many Italian nationals (60,000) that the British announced they would have to be deported to India in batches of 250. As the week's international shocker arrived with announcement of the new tri-power Axis military pact, control of Egypt, the 100 miles of the Suez Canal and its outlets became increasingly important. In Axis hands, the Canal could allow Italian and Japanese Fleets to join in the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific...
...after Adolf Hitler announced his new pact with Japan, the Courier-Journal declared: "We must give more and more aid to the British. We must send them planes, tanks and motor boats as fast as they are produced. . . . We must give them more of our overage destroyers . . . whenever they are needed. So long as Britain holds out, the German-Italian-Japanese alliance is frustrated...