Word: timorous
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...Japan might dictate a declaration in the Pacific by further encroachments. Jap soldiers already held Portuguese Timor, were bullying their way through the streets of Portuguese Macao, across the Pearl River from Hong Kong...
...runs back in one form or another to 1294. Terms of the alliance bind Britain to aid Portugal, leave Portugal free to pursue benevolent neutrality and make her own decision whether or when she should be come an active war ally in the Atlantic. Japan forcibly occupied Portuguese Timor in the Pacific, and is reported to be exercising illegal military control over the colony of Macao on the China coast. Either fact would be ample reason for war if Portugal feels the time has come to stand up, be counted and get a favorable position on the postwar docket...
...Japanese have held Portuguese Timor in the East Indies since Feb. 20, 1942, lately have seized control of Macao near Hong Kong...
...size of the air force at his disposal is no indication of the size of the task facing cocky, fighting little Lieut. General Kenney. His targets stretch over a curve reaching from Jap-held Timor in The Netherlands Indies to the Solomon Islands. Within this 4,000-mi. arc the Japanese have concentrated more air power and troops than anywhere else in the Far Eastern war zone except in China. They may have an offensive thrust in mind: to clean the Allies out of Australia's outlying islands and launch an invasion of Australia itself. Or they...
...Pacific had not suddenly changed in any important respect last week, except that the Japanese haa begun to cash in on four to six months' gradual preparations along their 6,000-mile defensive arc. For some time they had been building airstrips, until now there were 65 between Timor and Munda. For some time they had been moving troops to a maze of forward garrisons, until there were seven to ten divisions in line. Some of these were good troops: one division had fought several months in China against the Communist Chu Teh, another had fought through Burma, another...