Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aftermath was bitter. The British had hardly halted the French shelling of Damascus and taken over the city (TIME, June 11) before Syria's President Shukri el-Kuwatly said: "This generation of Syrians will not tolerate seeing one Frenchman walk through the streets of Damascus." In neighboring coastal Lebanon, anti-French feeling mounted. When Lebanese demanded that "something be done here as was done in Syria," they meant that British troops should eject the French from the newly sandbagged public buildings and from street-corner barricades in Beirut, where the French last week emplaced machine guns...
North of the strategic city, the Communists claimed control over the coastal villages not garrisoned by the Japanese. In Shanghai itself their underground had organized students, waterfront and factory workers. The political pattern was similar to that in Poland, where the Communist-controlled underground clashed with the underground loyal to the Polish Government in Exile. In Shanghai the Communist underground was fighting a bitter, no-quarter battle against Chungking's underground, organized by keen, self-effacing General Tai Li, head of the Central Government's secret service. It was a battle in the dark, a focus of China...
...people of Chungking were shocked even by the customs of the modernized coastal Chinese who retreated to the province six years ago. The U.S. soldiers depart even further than the coastal Chinese from Chungking social conventions. Chungking people believe that woman's place is in the home, that no nice girl goes out publicly with a man, that only a trull plays and drinks with a man, that marriages are arranged by parents and no nonsense...
Twelve administrative sections will oversee every phase of German life. A transport section will supervise all traffic systems, and (with the Navy) handle port and coastal operations. (Although occupying an inland zone, the U.S. forces will have access to the North Sea port of Bremen.) The political section, presumably to be under the State Department's Robert Murphy, will direct both foreign and domestic affairs. Food, agriculture and forestry, price control and rationing, public works and utilities, internal and foreign trade, industrial conversion and liquidation will be under a huge economics section. Brigadier General ("Wild Bill") Donovan...
Polluted Water. Last week General LeMay also disclosed a six-weeks-old cam paign to strangle Jap shipping by dense aerial mining of her coastal and inland waters. Nineteen missions had been flown ; the Navy had furnished the mines and mine experts. Parachuted into the water at night, the mines are the "magnetic" type; they sink to the bottom and explode when a ship passes close by. LeMay plans to keep the waters "polluted...