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...spring and warmer weather came to Tokyo, U.S. soldiers strolled arm in arm with Japanese girls along the carp-filled Imperial moat, lolled amorously on the grass of Hibiya Park, made love in the back of Army jeeps. It was hard to remember that they had once been scheduled to fight their way into Honshu at just this season. But Eighth Army commander Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger remembered...
...front, oxford-grey topcoat, a pearl-grey felt hat which looked as if it had been sat upon, a dark business suit, blue shirt and white collar, the new Hirohito sallied forth on his first campaign tour. It was only his third peek at the world outside his carp-filled moat since the war's end. He left the palace grounds sitting bolt upright in a big, black Mercedes-Benz. Behind streamed a caravan of 40 other cars...
...through, General Wedemeyer gave straight answers, kept his all-but-saintly patience-until a Chinese asked a question I shall always cherish as a supreme example of jerkery: "Do you have any jeeps for sale?" Wedemeyer winced as though struck across the face with a dead carp. He snapped through clenched teeth: "I'm not a sales agent for anything!" Then he recovered, earnestly explained how surplus property is sold...
Canadian economists did not carp at the British. It was true that Britain did not have enough dollars for all her needs, logical that she should refuse to borrow more than she had a prayer of repaying. But Canada had not been niggardly in meeting Britain's needs in the war. Why should Britain now doubt that Canada would put up the money, somehow, to keep trade going...
Actually, since the Army took over only ten of the 640 retail stores, it had little chance of even making enough money to break even on all of its operations. But it had run the stores so well that probably even irascible old Sewell Avery could find little to carp about. Said one Ward official: "It's hard for me to believe that Ward's won or lost anything by the seizure. I doubt if people either bought or stopped buying because the Army was in. Things just don't happen that...