Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult," said the radio voice of Tokyo recently, "to tell you our objective in the south in simple words. I don't know it myself." Tokyo's difficulty was suggested by news leaking out of Japan's "Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...Burma, before the war the world's largest rice exporter, could feed much of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere"-if there were ships. Among their rotting crops, millions of little Burmese rice farmers contemplated the beauties of Japanese rule...
...ease Japan's huge new administrative job, Tokyo last week announced the formation of a new Ministry of Greater East Asiatic Affairs. This will give the Co-Prosperity Sphere a management of its own, apart from the Foreign Office. The new Ministry may also be intended to help free Japan's military masters from the nuisance of Foreign Office bureaucrats. First head of the new Ministry is Kazuo Aoki, 53, longtime Finance Ministry official, who has recently risen fast as an aggressive-minded favorite of the Kwantung Army clique...
...power has been growing in the area. Heavy bombers have begun to operate from New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, as well as from General MacArthur's sphere in Australia and New Guinea, across the incredibly inefficient and arbitrary line dividing Army-Navy command in the area (see map). The Army has recently delighted the Navy by taking to low-level attacks. High-level "precision" bombing has not been too precise in the Pacific. Last week heavy bombers went into Rabaul at mast level, and sank or damaged ten ships...
...Brazilian navy is both small and antiquated, although an expansion program is now under way. In the naval sphere Brazil's most important immediate contribution will be bases from which aircraft and ships of the United Nations can operate without going through the delay of Lease-Lend formalities. Seaplane bases can be established all along the coastline, and small naval patrol craft may be stationed at many points...