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Some seemed sincerely thankful that the Americans had arrived. Said a merchant prince to two visiting Americans: the Greater East Asia Sphere had long been a mockery. Critical shortages of materials had begun to wreck the empire a year ago. It was all the military's fault. The public expected Tojo and other war criminals to be tried. When Saipan fell, the people knew the war was lost. Those who had been in the U.S. (including the merchant prince) knew it was hopeless when it started. The merchant poured three drinks and toasted the Americans: "To your safe arrival...
Then from faraway Boston came a body blow. Nelson Rockefeller, the conciliatory U.S. Assistant Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs, stood up at a Pan-American dinner and denounced Argentina as "the black sheep" of the hemi sphere family...
Meng Chiang. The Japanese also dreamed of redeeming the strategic area for their Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In 1936, five years after the Japanese had overrun Manchuria, Prince Teh transferred his allegiance to Dai Nippon. Inner Mongolia became the federal state of Meng Chiang (Mongol Border Land), and Prince Teh found himself an exalted puppet...
Along Greece's northern frontier, "incidents" were occurring with remarkable regularity at the rate of one every other day. British and Russian occupation troops, facing each other across the restive Greco-Bulgar border, were getting into each other's sphere of influence and into each other's hair. The controlled Yugoslav press, taking its cue from Marshal Tito's blast at Greek "terrorism" (TIME, July 16), screamed insistently about "20,000" Slav refugees from Macedonia. To Salonika from Athens hurried Premier Admiral Petros Voulgaris to make a personal investigation...
Long resigned to the creation of a tightly held Russian bloc in eastern Europe, Britain has sought to strike a balance with a western bloc. Washington last week talked in other terms. It recognized that a western European bloc would always be weaker than the Russian sphere, and hoped instead for a really unified Europe, in which both the western powers and Russia would have...