Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a world, there would be four dominant nations: the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, England in its far-flung British Commonwealth, Russia in Europe, China in the Far East. Each would try to prevent warfare in its own sphere and avoid conflicts with the rest. If they joined in any sort of international organization it would be loose and informal. They would try to postpone another war -but would never ascend to such idealism as thinking of World War II as a war to end wars...
...Burma, the Japs last week gave "independence." The gift came all tied up in pretty strings and boxed "within the framework of Japan's co-prosperity sphere": Lieut. General Masakazu Ka-wabe, Commander in Chief of Japanese forces in Burma, abolished his military administration; members of the "Burma Independence Preparatory Committee," established by the Japs six weeks earlier, were called to a meeting; the Committee quickly named itself a "National Assembly," and appointed wily, womanish Dr. Ba Maw Premier of Burma. It only remained for Ba Maw to sign a treaty of alliance pledging Burma to military, political...
...Woods province 30 years ago when toothsome Teddy Roosevelt, Son Kermit and Brazil's great pioneer explorer, General Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon (now 78), floated down and mapped the Rio da Duvida (River of Doubt). The river was later named Rio Roosevelt. Flaviano Van-ique's sphere of action is a section neglected by Roosevelt and Rondon, east of T.R.'s treacherous River of Doubt...
...pattern grew plainer. Japan was directing every facet of psychological warfare toward the detachment of India from the United Nations' camp. Since March the Jap has been dangling pseudo-independence before one unit after another in her Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Nanking was first. Burma and the Philippines heard about their good luck in June. This month Thailand received chunks of territory transferred from the Malay States as an earnest of better things to come (TIME, July 12). With every move, Tokyo Radio beamed long accounts, in English, at India...
Back in Tokyo from a fortnight's flight through Greater East Asia, Premier Hideki Tojo last week announced that the entire Co-Prosperity Sphere "understands Nippon's true intentions and is concentrating full efforts to destroy the Anglo-American powers...