Word: dais
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Dictator" of another, gentler age was presented to the subject of its satire-Japan. Last week, for the first time, Dai Nippon saw a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. The historic performance took place in bombed Tokyo's Ernie Pyle Theater. The Japanese in the audience laughed heartily...
Army headquarters in Tokyo put the souvenir business on a bargain-basement basis last week. In the lobby of the Dai Iti Hotel was a conspicuous sign: "War trophies will, be issued here-men must be assigned to GHQ-one sword per man." Somebody with a high regard for accuracy had crossed out the words "men" and had substituted "officers...
Recently, France's good friend, Annamite Emperor Bao Dai (a topflight ping-pong player), formed a government of Viet Minh leaders who promptly ousted Bao Dai. New ruler of Annam, Tonkin and Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
...house and shelter to shelter all through the worst of the Jap air raids (during one horrible bombing the body of a Chinese woman was blown 20 yards straight through his open window). This week, when he landed with our first airborne troops on the sacred soil of Dai Nippon, he must have been comparing the rubble of Tokyo with the ruins he had seen so often in Chungking and Liuchow and Nanning...
Meng Chiang. The Japanese also dreamed of redeeming the strategic area for their Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In 1936, five years after the Japanese had overrun Manchuria, Prince Teh transferred his allegiance to Dai Nippon. Inner Mongolia became the federal state of Meng Chiang (Mongol Border Land), and Prince Teh found himself an exalted puppet...