Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appalling Power. The air war was already going well. The Japs were reduced to drawing charms in the sand to frighten "evil spirits" away from the homeland (see cut). For weeks Japanese opposition had been dwindling-and LeMay's striking power had been increasing. Even as "The Cigar" moved his office, his bombers were returning from their biggest LeMay-conceived mission up to that time: 822 Superfortresses had gone out to lay a vast net of mines and to bomb four Japanese cities (pop. 66,000 to 127,000). Only one was lost. The big planes carried...
Peter Ourousoff, a White Russian, summed it up: "We have signed a paper saying we would return to our homeland. But where is it? We have none. For us to go back is suicide." Carl Selan voiced their hope: "If we could stay here America would find many of us would be assets. . . . We want only to obey the law, to have peace, liberty...
Mindful of Germany's prodigious efforts to go underground, airmen could not entirely dismiss the possibility. But they had the last word: the bombs fell & fell, the invasion armies made ready. Whenever it pleased, the Navy could again train its guns on the Jap homeland. The war of words did not, for one moment, interrupt or slacken the fighting...
With iron logic, the declaration also described the only alternative: invasion and "the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland." All in all, the terms added up to a hard peace but not to a ruthless one. In population, living standards, sovereignty and trade, the Japan they envisioned would not be inferior to the Japan of two generations...
...seed had been planted. It could not be overlooked by such Big Business spokesmen as Munitions Minister Teijiro Toyoda, a Mitsui man. The Potsdam declaration invited him and his friends to take a practical look at what would be left of their properties if the homeland was invaded...