Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More interested than any other power was the Soviet Union. "We do not mind," said a Soviet diplomat to a Chinese diplomat a decade ago, "if you Chinese develop Turkestan. But if you permit Turkestan to become a second Manchuria, we must act to protect ourselves." The Soviet Union suspected Japanese designs on Soviet Central Asia itself. Also, in Russia's mind there lingered the ancient Czarist fear of British influence working out from India. To the Russians, it seemed that the British Consulate at Kashgar might be almost as dangerous as the reported Japanese advisers of Ma Chung...
...democratic way of life-but as a war of great interests. They see it in terms of Great Britain defending her empire against the challenge of a new German imperialism, of the U.S. seeking to throttle an expanding Japan. Argentines ask why should they go to war to protect England's empire. Altogether, our attitude is very much like that of the U.S. before Pearl Harbor...
...Town Meeting. The delegates elected Walter Reuther first vice president over Communist-backed Dick Frankensteen by 345 votes, then turned round and elected Frankensteen second vice president over Reuther's nominee, Dick Leonard, by about 300 votes. Apparently the rank & file seemed to think they could best protect themselves by perpetuating the U.A.W.'s civil war, thus keeping the balance of power in their own hands. Actually the U.A.W. went home from Buffalo no solid bloc for anything or anybody...
...Japs have never believed in seeking out the enemy fleet for decisive battle. The mission of their navy has not been to gain "command of the seas" but to transport troops and protect the Imperial Army's supply lines. Mr. Kiralfy suggests that this goes back to Japan's origins, the Japs being a nation of "island-hoppers" who surged up from the south and established "beachheads" on what is now called Japan. In 1592, Hideyoshi, founder of the navy, used his ships to land troops in Korea, to victual their beachheads. In 1904-05, Togo aimed...
Pacific Ways. Many units of the British Fleet, once desperately occupied in the Mediterranean, could now steam east to the Pacific front. British warships manned by veteran crews could be thrown against the Jap supply lines. To protect those lines the Jap fleet was already spread too thin...