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Word: homelands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting a chance at renunciation are afraid that to be returned to the hostile Pacific Coast would be worse than being re-interned as aliens. But the majority of them dearly want to go back to Japan-even though they can see from their newspapers how their future homeland is being devastated by the U.S., how close it is to defeat. After the war is over they will be sent back to what is left of the land few of them have ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postwar Exports | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...saying hail and farewell last week. He was saying hail to Czechoslovakia, to whose liberated areas he, his wife and more than a score of his ministers and aides were returning after six years in exile. He was saying farewell to the cabinet in exile. He also promised the homeland a new Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Hail & Farewell | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Shells on a Shore. Out of the gathering dusk loomed reef-ringed Okino-Daito, 450 miles from the Japanese homeland. All night the fleet paraded by while the guns spoke a deadly monologue. As dawn broke, the ships steamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Battlewagons Roar | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Meanwhile the U.S. Army claimed its own share of the Japanese skies. In the center of empire, Tokyo was visited anew by some 200 Marianas-based Superfortresses. Sadly a Tokyo newspaper conceded that the Americans might yet land successfully in the Japanese homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Battlewagons Roar | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Which Way to Turn? The Japs knew all this. They knew that there was no island within fighter-plane range of their homeland which would serve the U.S. purpose as well as Iwo. (Chichi's terrain would not take enough airfields.) There was no surprise on either side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Inevitable Island | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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