Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the two giants, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., made concessions. The revolutionary Russians remembered that only their defense of the homeland on home soil had saved their country when revolutionary propaganda failed to undermine the enemy. The U.S. knew that its highly mobile armed might could go anywhere in the world, but had no wish to send its forces anywhere once their current chores were done...
...even these two able strategists could know precisely what sort of campaign they must prepare for. Japan supposedly has 1,750,000 men under arms, ready to defend the homeland. Would they fight to the same bitter end as the 85,000 on Okinawa? Would they exact the same toll, of one U.S. soldier killed for every ten Japanese? Must the U.S. prepare for at least 175,000 killed-twice as many as in the European Theater of Operations? Would the enemy succeed in mobilizing into the People's Volunteer Corps 100,000,000 automatons for suicidal defense...
...will smash the enemy in a decisive battle on our homeland, which will be quite different from battles on islands.. . . The enemy is now clamoring for unconditional surrender of Japan, which is intended for the complete destruction of Japanese policy and the Japanese race. . . . There is no alternative for the Japanese but to fight ... to the very last...
...against any compromise whatsoever in the Pacific war, according to the latest FORTUNE Survey of Public Opinion. More than 80% of the people questioned declared they would not settle for withdrawal of Japanese forces from China, Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies, etc. as a condition of leaving the Japanese homeland unoccupied. Like their Government, they stood for unconditional surrender-everywhere...
...effort from Europe to the Pacific, it came face to face with a startling fact-it was waging war against a god. Its sea armada had already crushed his island outworks. Its planes were pulverizing his cities. Now its armies were preparing to invade the sacred soil of his homeland...