Word: renner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate opened last month when a geography professor named George T. Renner, of Columbia University's Teachers College, published in Collier's a map of a post-war world drawn to "democratic specifications" (TIME, June 15). A disciple of the small but respectable school of American geopoliticos which includes Yale's Professor Nicholas John Spykman (America's Strategy in World Politics- TIME, April 20), Professor Renner believes that scholars, not "amateurs," are best able to write the peace...
...Renner's Asia gives to Japan all the shores of the Japan Sea and the Mandated Islands, to Russia a Manchurian warm-water outlet and Outer Mongolia, to China a piece of Indo-China, to Thailand all the rest of Indo-China and a piece of Burma. All the Indies are lumped into an International Zone. India is arbitrarily divided into a Moslem state (west) and a Hindu state (east...
...Renner's Africa has four independent nations: tiny Liberia, Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia ("should be protected by being completely surrounded by British territory"). The rest of the continent is divided among Germany. France and Britain-with Germany getting France's Gabon, Belgium's Congo, Portugal's Angola...
...Renner's Americas have no colonies, nor are there any foreign possessions in the Western Hemisphere (Canada and Greenland are independent...
...Baltic States have been a specific point of issue in Russian discussions with the Allies. Renner's plan served as a trial balloon on this issue, and the howl that went up against Renner, especially on the part of small governments-in-exile, served warning that, if the large-state idea prevails after World War II, the green table of peace will rock...