Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Douglas MacArthur invited Roger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, to come to Japan and Korea and give his verdict on how democratization was working. Back last week, Baldwin reported his findings...
...Japan he was enthusiastic. Baldwin, who for 30 years has defended the rights off revolutionaries of all shades, called Soldier MacArthur's occupation of Japan "the greatest revolution I have ever seen." About Korea he was much less hopeful. There, a lack of U.S. policy, an inept military government and factionalism among Korean politicians has produced a "reign of terror." Japan, the former enemy, was like a "liberated country," while Korea had all the earmarks of a conquered country...
Crusaders. "Japan," rhapsodized Baldwin, "is an uplifting experience. It is a crusade." General MacArthur feels that he has an almost mystical duty to "purge the soul of the Japanese people. The Japanese are learning to stand up on their hind legs to authority." As avid to ape Western political and social forms as they once were to imitate Western industrial techniques, the Japanese are trying everything from open forum debating to the Virginia reel...
...hammock literature" was reported by one bookstore. Comes the hot weather, they said, and college students start to catch up on their light reading. Arnold Toynbee's "Study of History" was named as a definitely cold weather book, while the sweltering reader picks up P. G. Wodehouse, or Faith Baldwin...
...called big five are five companies acting as agents for the Hawaiian sugar plantations in the transportation and marketing of sugar, procurement of supplies and machinery and other matters. They are American Factors, C. Brower & Co., Alexander & Baldwin, Castle & Cooke, and Theo, H. Davis...