Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cuba," the latter concluded in 1945, contain little of the dry matter of zoology, though omitting nothing that a good naturalist could gather. His recent "Naturalist in Cuba," selections from which were printed in the Atlantic Monthly, discussed not only the animal, insect, and plant life of the region, but its geology, history, sociology, its people and their food as well...
Accelerated language courses, patterned after those used successfully in ASTP programs and in Civil Affairs Training Schools, will be offered to graduate students and to qualified undergraduates, training to be given not only in languages but in a broad knowledge of the chosen region...
...larger considerations. On the whole vast sweep of Russia's western and southwestern border, Turkey is the one country without a pro-Soviet regime. Russia wants to anchor the line. If its pressure could bring a Moscow-influenced Turkish government, Russia might forget her claim to the coastal region...
...official spokesman said that the British felt "a moral and military obligation which included the bringing about of conditions of law and order." In Java, the most troublesome and disaffected region, there would be "a strong policy-more force and more troops." The objective was an atmosphere "without fear or violence," in which Netherlanders and Indonesians could settle their differences by peaceful negotiation "within the framework of the Netherlands kingdom...
Meanwhile, U.S.-trained Central Government troops were marching into the vast, rich region. With them was TIME Correspondent William Gray, the first American newsman to enter Manchuria. His report: It is a strange warfare that has taken China's Thirteenth and Fifty-Second Armies into southwest Manchuria on the road to Mukden. Thus far it is largely rifle warfare, and the front moves rapidly. You do not see shell holes or blasted buildings or wrecked vehicles or hospitals or bloating corpses. Only rarely are there wounded...