Word: yap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Japan's alternative would be a tough one, too-to reduce the flanking bases, while her aircraft, operating from Yap, Palau and other bases in the mandated islands, went to work on Amboina and Surabaya. In 1914, Tsingtao, garrisoned by about 6,000 German troops and wide open to attack, held out against the Japanese and British for more than two months. Better munitioned and better located (on an island) than Tsingtao, Hong Kong is garrisoned by 12,000 crack British troops. Once having silenced Hong Kong, Surabaya and Amboina, the Japanese Fleet might swing around the east side...
...almost automatic. They have already invaded Mindanao with brigades of civilians and regiments of cheap products. A tight submarine ring might suffice to hold in the small U. S. squadron. based on Manila. East of the Philippines the Japanese already have bases in the mandated islands at Saipan, Rota, Yap, Palau...
...nations may send at least 100 annually to the U. S. Bhutan (in the Himalayas), the British Cameroons, Liechtenstein, Muscat, Nauru, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Yap and ten others sent none...
...inclination to do anything for the world's refugees except read about them. If the U. S. did want to do something, obvious step would be for Congress to amend the quota law. Obvious amendments would temporarily reduce favored Great Britain's unfilled allotment, write off uninterested Yap, Bhutan etc., up the quotas for Germany, Poland, etc., without necessarily increasing the total immigrant quota...
...described himself as "intentionally witty"; when his audience laughed, would wag his tail and yap, "I laugh heartily...