Word: easterners
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...been conquered and the sea power of Great Britain seems to be trembling in the balance. . . . We may be next. It is now recognized that if a powerful enemy secured a base at [Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Northeastern Canada] ... it could launch a devastating air attack upon our eastern seaboard. ... In the metropolitan area of New York over 7,000,000 people are mainly dependent on a single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that we are unprepared...
...claim to Bessarabia and would hardly have objected, even though King Carol had gone Nazi in a belated effort to get German protection (TIME, July 1). Both Berlin and Rome professed disinterest in what Russia was doing, blamed any agitation about it on a British plot to open an eastern front. Germany insisted that she would not be drawn into any Balkan adventure now and Italy told Hungary and Bulgaria not to press their claims against Rumania. But Berlin hinted darkly that present conditions were only temporary. The last thing Germany could tolerate would be permanent Russian control...
Each successive Hitler victory was in effect a Japanese victory. Each Allied setback loosened the pegs of prestige and force by which the French, British and Dutch held down their Far Eastern spheres of interest, whence came most of China's outside help. The Japanese well know that if they can shake those three nations loose, China will be nearly won. For China's only other friend and armorer is Russia, and across the dreary 2,000-mile road from Siberia, so rough that most trucks are permanently crippled by just one trip over it, China has been...
...whether or not the sentiment for peace grows in China, a Chungking armistice would not mean the end of the Far Eastern conflict. The last flanking movements in the three-year-old War in China had become the first forays of the Battle of the Eastern Empire...
...Greenwich, Conn., U. S. schoolboys fought it out for the 29th Eastern Interscholastic Golf Championship. The show they put on over the soggy Greenwich Country Club links augured well for future intercollegiate tournaments. In the qualifying rounds, stocky, easygoing, Charles Davis of Lawrenceville took the medal with a creditable 36-hole total of 153. In the match play that followed, the gallery was treated to many a pull-devil-pull-baker struggle before long-swatting Bill Goldthorp of Peddie ousted Hill School's redheaded, hot-putting Mortimer Reed, 5 & 4 in the final...