Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want this war to result in a world organization establishing lasting solidarity and mutual help between nations in every sphere...
Reporting on the Sphere's recent expansion, Premier General Hideki Tojo advised that Russian territory was not expected to receive the benefit of further expansion for the moment: "Relations between Japan and the Soviet Union have undergone no change. . . . With progress of the war, enemy countries will, I presume, intensify their efforts to alienate Japan and the Soviet Union, but there is no chance for such intrigues to bear fruit so long as the Soviet Union firmly maintains the attitude mentioned...
Premier Tojo went on to recommend India's cooperation in the Sphere: "Since all the outpost bases of the British Empire for defense of India are in the possession of Japan, the golden opportunity is offered to the Indian people to rise and obtain their liberty. . . ." Premier Tojo suggested that the Indian people eject British and American troops from India. "As long as [they] remain, Japan is inflexibly determined to annihilate them...
...chief new business to be brought up this week was the consideration of huge appropriation bills for shipping to replace losses incurred in the development of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Since 80% of the Japanese Diet members chosen at the recent elections were Government-supported (TIME, May 18), there was no doubt that the ayes would have...
Chennault created the Flying Tigers as Knute Rockne created the great teams of Notre Dame. And in their sphere the Flying Tigers are as fine a team as Notre Dame ever was. Flying U.S.-made P-40s of outmoded design, always short of equipment and ammunition, always hiding out from the Jap while they were on the ground, the A.V.G.s ran up a score never equaled. They knocked better than 300 Japanese planes out of the air, destroyed a hundred or so on the ground, saved many a ground force with its back to the wall. A.V.G...