Word: timorously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Security. The primary aim was to establish a "permanent zone of interest" over an arc of islands stretching from Timor to Western Samoa. The great half-circle includes New Guinea, the Solomons, the New Hebrides. The Commonwealths down under want to make sure that an enemy will never again get as close to Australia as the Japanese did in 1942. Australia and New Zealand propose to police the area within the arc, pay part of the costs of a standing force if other interested nations will collaborate. Others affected: the U.S., The Netherlands, France, Portugal, Great Britain...
...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...