Word: timor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot at which the Allies got the jump on the Japanese was Timor. This half-Dutch, half-Portuguese island, lying between the Dutch East Indies and Australia (only 410 miles from Darwin), has long been eyed by the Japanese. This autumn they acquired the right from the Portuguese to fly a commercial airline there. Dutch and Australian troops marched into Portuguese Timor last week over the protest of local Portuguese authorities. But even this little triumph was fraught with political hazards which might eventually offset the military advantage...
Portugal. Delicate Portuguese-British relations were violently chafed by the British-Dutch occupation of the Portuguese half of the East Indian island of Timor (see p. 13). When the Portuguese Government protested sternly, the British Foreign Office insisted that Japanese submarines had been sighted off Timor, that the Allies acted only to forestall invasion by the Japanese. German gutturals continued to sound in Lisbon's streets, hotels and restaurants...
...planes of Japanese-controlled Dia Nippon Airways regularly take off in four directions. To the northwest they go to Dairen, Mukden and Hsinking in Manchukuo; to the south they reach the tiny islands of Palau, 500 miles closer to the U.S. than the Philippines, continue on to Portuguese Timor in the East Indies; to the west they roar to Shanghai, other Chinese cities; to the southwest they fly over Formosa to Canton, then over French Indo-China to Bangkok in pro-Japanese Thailand. The eastern and western arms of their airlines form a giant horseshoe around the Philippines...