Word: dais
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dozen Ping-Pong Balls. Last spring, the French proclaimed IndoChina's autonomy under the French Union (roughly designed as an equivalent of the British Commonwealth).* They also returned to the Indo-Chinese their plump former Emperor Bao Dai ("The Great Protector...
...fuzzy world of Japan's new democracy it seemed like a Shinto nightmare. Two thousand hard-jawed Japanese, in jackboots and military khaki, clomped down the gangplank of the transport that had brought them from prison camps in Siberia to their home in Dai Nippon. They clenched fists, bawled the Internationale and the Song of the Kolkhoz...
...poles of power in occupied Japan are the Dai Ichi Building, in downtown Tokyo, and the U.S. Embassy, five minutes' drive away. General Douglas MacArthur works in the first, lives in the second...
...grey-carpeted, leather-chaired office on the sixth floor of Tokyo's Dai Ichi (No. 1) Building, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur puffed at one of his 17 pipes (including five corncobs) and ran a careful eye over the words he had penciled on two sheets of blue-lined paper. Satisfied, he touched the buzzer, handed the sheets to an officer and said: "Have this released to the press...
Last week Bao Dai's carefree days in Hong Kong were at an end. Pretty little "Perfume of the South," his empress, had arrived in town with their five children. In her wake came a delegation of 22 Annamites. What the Annamites told Bao was enough to sober him. To the people of Viet Nam he issued a grave proclamation: "To avoid bloodshed, I renounced the throne of my ancestors. Since you wished to entrust the destiny of the country to new rulers, I decided to withdraw. Now in spite of the dictatorship which forbids freedom of speech...