Word: alling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On Okinawa, where more than four years ago U.S. arms won a famous and a costly victory (80,000 dead & wounded), General Douglas MacArthur's Pacific command has carried on a postwar occupation without much notice from the outside world. TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney toured the all-but-forgotten...
A reflection of their faith is warming Okinawa's people. On a hill above the southern Okinawa plain lie the ruins of Shuri castle; all that remains of the ancient home of Okinawa's rulers is an iron drinking fountain shaped like a dragon with gaping jaws out...
Though it classified them as "a liberated people," the U.S. has sometimes treated Okinawans less generously in occupation than the Japanese did. The battle of Okinawa completely wrecked the island's simple farming and fishing economy: in a matter of minutes, U.S. bulldozers smashed the terraced fields which Okinawans...
Some of his fellow Communists, said Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut, had been "politically blind." What they had not seen was the Red handwriting on the wall: Stalin had slated Poland for all-out economic and military colonization. A purge of the blind was inevitable.
Last week Wladyslaw Gomulka, once the country's No. 1 Communist but for some time past under suspicion of being a Titoist, was expelled from the Communist Party Central Committee. Vice Minister of Justice Zenon Kliszko and Minister of Construction Spychalski were also kicked out. All were denounced as...