Word: existing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While atrocities committed by the Japanese are being brought to light, why not also give tribute to some of our former enemies who proved themselves humanitarians? They are probably slightly harder to find, but they still exist. I, a former war prisoner, can vouch for one outstanding example of a truly good...
Under the directive, State Shinto - part religion, part patriotic ritual - was to be stripped of public support and of its "ultra-nationalistic and militaristic" trappings. Henceforth the bare remnants could exist as part of sectarian Shinto, an un-privileged equal among other faiths, sup ported only by voluntary offerings...
...Aren't we overlooking completely the crux of the problem of maintaining peace in Europe by allowing such conditions to exist as those described in this letter...
...line ships list-battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers, destroyer escorts and submarines-represented 496,994 tons, or 46% of the Navy's combat force at the time of Pearl Harbor. The great majority (144) of the supporting vessels lost were bow-ramp landing ships and craft which did not exist, except in blueprint, when the first bombs fell...
...baffled. They had understood that President Roosevelt, at his post-Yalta meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, had promised not to upset or seriously disturb the Arab position. Now the White House took the ground that since no written record of any such promise existed, the promise did not exist...