Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...divisions ("or equivalents")-450,000 men, of whom 409,261 were reported killed, 9,774 prisoners. It meant also that Japan had been cut off from her conquests in Malaysia. It meant the "collapse of the enemy's imperial concept of a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere...
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...
...Russian news reports suggested that another development of immense importance to Czechoslovakia was up for discussion in Moscow: the Communist. Social Democratic and People's Socialist parties had formed a Czech "National Bloc" on the familiar "National Front" pattern of other countries in Russia's sphere. Czech labor unions, professional workers and technicians, farmers, and intellectuals were to be united in centrally controlled organizations allied with the "National Bloc." If liberation was bringing freedom to the Czechs, it was of a kind unknown to them before the old freedom collapsed...