Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Citizens Favor Proposals...
Sitting at their abaci, with hot green tea and cold rice balls for refreshment, the election clerks diligently tallied their beads and the vote. No one was surprised when the conservatives-Liberals, Progressives and Independents, all in favor of free enterprise and the Emperor system-emerged with a clear-cut victory (about 300 seats). Unexpected was the strength of the Social Democrats, who stand for evolutionary socialism (about 90 seats). The Communists, despite militancy and tight organization, got only five seats. Most revolutionary was the election of 38 women, including Mrs. Shidzue Kato, the former Baroness Ishimoto, famed...
McGovern was offered a top occupation job in Japan, but preferred to return to Northwestern to train, with the State Department's unofficial blessing, some of the 5,000 U.S. civilians needed in Japan and Germany. Says he: "I'm in favor of self-destructive military government...
...poor and ignorant man judges his lot by his past. Thus did China's ragged ricksha pullers judge the Government's lofty pronouncement that their work was "archaic, inhuman and wasteful of manpower," and the Government's three-year plan to abolish all rickshas in favor of pedicabs, trolleys and buses...
Less deft was a British bid for France's favor. Because President Felix Gouin had hinted that the Rhineland need not necessarily be severed from Germany, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin tried to reopen talks on a Franco-British alliance. But Socialist Gouin's Cabinet colleagues strenuously objected. As torchbearers for Charles de Gaulle (who, in retirement at Marly-le-Roi, spoke of the time "quand je reviens-when I return"), the Popular Republicans (M.R.P.) held out stubbornly for the "political internationalization" of Western Germany. The Communists suspected that French, British and German Socialists were plotting another Socialist version...