Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timely book: Why England Slept (because she refused to sacrifice butter for guns, to prevent a war she never really believed would come). After a war in which his older brother and brother-in-law had been killed, in which he himself had been wounded when a Jap destroyer cut his boat in half, Jack Kennedy was even more convinced that U.S. security and world peace depended on U.S. vigilance...
...Japanese were finding the trappings of Western democracy hard to learn, but it was not for lack of trying. And how were Orientals ever to fathom the inscrutable Western mind? Fifteen long blocks from the Diet Chamber, in the courtroom where Jap war criminals were being tried, spectators stood stiffly at attention as the judges filed out for the noon recess. The marshal of the court, Captain Donald S. Van Meter, rose and solemnly announced: "For the benefit of English-speaking persons, Louis won over Conn by a knockout in the eighth round...
...attempt to look like occidentals the actors appeared with built-up noses and shoes, actresses with built-up busts and behinds. But the translation was clear and faithful. Did the Jap audience get the anti-fascist point? The faces behind the calmly wagging bamboo fans gave no hint...
...protests, out of disloyalty but because, in a way he never makes clear, he thought he might thus "solidify the opposition of the Filipinos" against the invading Japanese. Finally, to halt the "possibly useless sacrifice" of Filipino life and property, he proposed in February 1942, that both U.S. and Jap forces be withdrawn and the Philippines "neutralized" and declared wholly independent...
Delayed Threat. Quezon's The Good Fight was ready to be published in October 1944-but was delayed because of the protests of Sergio Osmeña, who became President on Quezon's death. Osmeña protested that its publication might "assist" the Jap war effort or cause "unrest" among the Filipinos. Some of Quezon's friends have seen political motives in this attitude, noting that while The Good Fight speaks in generally friendly terms of Osmeña, it gives higher praise to Manuel Roxas, Osmeña's victorious rival...