Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Locally they will agitate against "drinkin' and sinnin'" at football weekend cocktail parties, the Bunnies said, claiming that their movement was 'already "sweeping Leverett like wildfire." In the international sphere they propose to aid China by national prohibition, which will naturally increase consumption of Chinese...
...Foreign Minister Molotov prepared to confer with Germany's Ribbentrop, Berlin let it be known that in the new world Germany hopes to create, Russia would have her sphere of influence. This sphere would lie between German Europe and Japanese East Asia, but its exact boundaries were not marked. Russia does and must always fear German expansion eastward more than anything else, and it was doubtful last week if anything Joachim von Ribbentrop could say or sign would reassure Comrade Stalin on that point. Best bet was that Russia would continue to play ball with the Axis against Great...
...necks they are stretching out." Two more Britons were arrested. Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma rejected the British protest. The Cabinet issued its program, which revolved around a new but strangely reminiscent phrase: Greater East Asia (incorporating Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies, possibly Burma, in Japan's sphere of action). Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka warned: "The Japanese Government is through with toadying...
Ethiopia is no Arab-country, and far from wanting to raise a revolt among the Arabs who came mostly into Britain's sphere of influence after World War I, Britain wanted nothing so much as to keep them quiet. But various dialects of Arabic are the language of Egypt, the Sudan and Libya, as well as of the Asiatic shore. Furthermore, the Arabs are expert desert soldiers and might prove useful allies to the British in Libya and the Sudan, where roads are almost as scarce as railroads, and the chief highways are furrows in the sand worn...
...from South America where he might have a foothold. It would also make an important U. S. outpost, completing the defense set-up of the hook. Its anchorages are deep and wide and its northwest coves would make good seaplane bases. Since it lies well within the U. S. sphere, the British have never developed it as a top-flight operating base. Its dry dock will accommodate nothing larger than destroyers, and it has no landplane base. Near by at Barbados the British have a battleship anchorage, a small airdrome and a tiny dry dock (too small for destroyers...