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G.I.s stared with cold curiosity at the impressive wreckage of the Japanese Imperial Army. The tough brown soldiers, ragged, weary, grim, clung to packed trains and swarmed the roads, following the long way home from war. City dwellers cheered them, but unbombed rustics, who could not understand the surrender, jeered. The main Jap army was unbeaten in the field, but Leyte, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Okinawa had convinced Japan's rulers that their army could not win a battle...
...grey, but millions of Londoners lined the route of the royal procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. WRENs in uniform perched on the Admiralty roof; pajama-clad residents of Carlton House Terrace clung to chimneys. The cheers swelled in ear-splitting waves. By historic chance, V-J day came on the day the new Labor-dominated Parliament opened. In one burst Britons were hailing victory, the Crown and Socialism...
...around cheeriness, conceded that the Japs might last through 1946. Behind this unusual alignment, observers could detect a mild conflict in strategy: the admirals seemed to favor invasion of Japan at the earliest possible moment as the best way to get the war finished quickly; some airmen clung to the hope that air power, given enough time, could pound Japan into surrender...
...oldest, the Japanese-born Issei, were reserved, puritanical people, who clung to an old country belief in hard work, personal integrity and obedience to tradition. They felt a sense of loyalty to Japan and had grave misgivings about the flipness, the new and careless attitudes of U.S.-born Nisei. Pearl Harbor had filled them with indecision. Many wanted Japan to win the war, but they did not want the U.S.-the country in which their children would go on living-to lose. ¶The Nisei had grown away from the Japanese beliefs that they had been taught as children, felt...
...restore to the Argentine people some of their democratic liberties. But spotted through their administration were other powerful politicians who felt that to yield would be fatal. Most notorious were Filomeno Velazco, chief of police, and General Juan Pistarini, Minister of Public Works. Tenaciously, they and their fellows clung to power, preventing the Government's concessions from having much effect. Said Pistarini (according to Vanguardia): "We shall relinquish the Government when frogs grow hair...