Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back of the military zone in which Japs and aliens are forbidden to set foot at all (see map) is a second zone where they must tread lightly. The General hinted that Japs who settled in this region "in all probability will not again be disturbed"-provided they do not stumble on one of the 97 special areas (around dams and reservoirs, power plants and armories) which are also out of bounds. (Not one of the Governors of nine inland Western States wanted them...
...world and World War II changed last week. By their conquest of Java, the Japanese split the far Pacific. Its vast expanses ceased to exist as a single Allied war area. The great zone of strategy, action and command became a set of separated zones...
Australians for Australia. Simply by omitting Australia from his prodigious swing, General Wavell accented that menaced Dominion's status as an important and lonely zone. Even as the unified Command was dissolving, Australians complained that it had never been wholly unified or wholly effective. They took command of Australia for themselves, with their tough, hard-talking, fast-moving Lieut. General Sir Iven Mackay at the top. No sooner had they done so than the Jap appeared on the horizon...
...Last week's chief affair of state was the establishment of diplomatic relations with Vichyfrance. By the country from whom Italy once expected to receive Nice, Corsica and Tunis, she was given only the frontier town of Menton, where the zone of occupation ends at a row of pavilion lavatories...
Britain, fearing an imminent Japanese thrust to cut India's sea communications, was evacuating non-essential civilians from the strategic island of Ceylon Friday but on the other fronts of the vast Far Eastern war zone, the United Nations appeared, for the moment at least, to be holding their...