Word: zone
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Ambiguous Empire. The most significant single thing about Japan's exploitation of East Asia is the differentiation between inner and outer zones of Empire. The inner zone roughly comprises the territory gained before Pearl Harbor, the outer zone the rest...
Japan pursues two distinct policies in the two zones. Capital investment, colonization, education and a centrifugal imperialism are evident in the inner zone. Emigration to the outer zone is discouraged, perhaps even forbidden; those who go there are sent on specific missions. No capital is invested in the outer zone. The cream is simply skimmed by persuasion or force. Throughout the outer zone an inextricable web of legal ownership is being developed, while on the surface autonomy is apparently maintained-as with the Vargas regime in the Philippines, the Luang Pitul Songgram government in Thailand, the surviving Decoux governorship...
There is an obvious point to this dichotomy. Japan may not retain full sovereignty in the outer zone after the war. But she clearly intends to remain dominant economically. Japan is apparently jockeying to be in a position, after Hitler's fall, to bargain for a negotiated peace in which the war-weary Allies would lose no face, Japan would lose no vital advantages. If she achieved such a stalemate, Japan would have...
...Zone of Quiet. In Cincinnati, the city council got a citizen's plea for strict enforcement of the anti-profanity ordinance, referred the matter to City Manager Clarence O. Sherrill, who investigated, discovered that as far as the ordinance was concerned swearing was permissible everywhere in the city except city hall...
...recent case, when an employer announced that either men must work on New Year's Day to fulfill pre-arranged schedules or else take four days off, the union at once objected. Moreover, the very strength of some unions has created a well-recognized twilight zone of authority within plants: the foreman seldom dares discharge a man; the union's "shop steward" is himself powerless to discipline a worker because his own job is dependent on his popularity...