Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's frontiers are in Asia. We cannot abandon Asia to Communism any more than we can abandon Europe to Communism. As in the war, so in the peace we must fight on both fronts. In spite of what has happened in China we still have a chance here. We have the unique opportunity of making the Japanese people into a good society. They have an old adage here-as Japan goes, so goes Asia. The history of the next 100 years, perhaps the next 1,000 years, may be decided here in the East...
...argued that in prewar Japan democratic forms were merely superimposed on ancient, rigid social patterns. In Japan today the U.S. is breaking up those social patterns. It is deliberately fostering a social revolution far bolder than anything colonial powers of the past have attempted in Asia. This revolution might lead to real democracy; it might also backfire as badly as Japan's earlier and shallower experiment with Western progress. Americans and Japanese are groping down a dim and dangerous road. But there is no safer...
...decades, Japan, one of the world's great trading nations, had supported itself from markets around the world; its best customers were the U.S., China and India. By ruthless seizure it was the master of fabulously wealthy Manchuria, the chief prize in the treasurehouse of the "greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." When the war ended, the great trading empire was shattered. Gone also were four-fifths of the Japanese merchant ships that had carried her trade. Eighty-one million people (increasing at the rate of about one million a year) were bottled up on the overcrowded islands...
...Asia? After the demilitarization and purges, occupation policy switched to a new phase-democratization and economic revival. But Russian veto of a peace treaty blocked MacArthur's plan to restore Japanese trade. U.S. trustbusters were still locked in stalemate with the Zaibatsu. Last summer the U.S. State Department intervened. Top Planner George Kennan took a long look at Japan. He recommended a basic change in policy, aimed at Japan's self-government, self-respect and self-support. Last December, a firm economic directive was finally drafted for MacArthur...
...Dodge mission revealed some of Washington's long-range thinking-a Marshall plan for Asia in which Japan might serve as the industrial workshop for a goods-hungry continent. Japanese production might help wean Asia from Red domination. State's blueprint also called for a simplified occupation, a garrison of troops for police duty only and advisory economic experts...