Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong Japanese motorized columns today appeared to be driving towards Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province and key to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's vital southwest defense zone...
...tied to the transoceanic routes, we are also tied to them politically and militarily. The notion of hemispheric defence, streamlined stand of the isolationists, the author explodes by pointing our that while we can defend North America and the Carribean, once below the bulge we are in the "equidistant zone" which it would be impossible to defend in an Axis world...
...French people who bid, fed and clothed the Guests were "wonderfully kind," says Mrs. Guest. On the train that carried them toward the unoccupied zone, Anthony could not remember not to talk English. His mother gave him sedatives to keep him quiet. Once when Anthony woke up, he blurted something in English before he could remember. No one seemed to care...
...Freedom of the press is relative, not absolute," the Nieman Fellow stated. "Moreover, there are many precedents backing up the Government's action, such as President Lincoln's reasons for closing down the Chicago Times during the Civil War. Here was a paper well out of the war zone, but the fact that it was abusing its privileges was sufficient excuse to warrant Lincoln's policy...
Professor Spykman's contribution to the debate on intervention versus isolation is contained in such brilliant chapters of his book as America and the Transatlantic Zone ("The position of the United States in regard to Europe as a whole is ... identical to the position of Great Britain in regard to the European continent. . . .") America and the Transpacific Zone ("Participation in a war to preserve the balance of power in Europe against Germany means war in cooperation with the dominant naval power. Participation in a war to preserve the balance of power in Asia . . . means war against Japan, against...