Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II the U.S. Navy, seeking weather stations behind Jap lines, joined with BIS in setting up the fabulous SACO (Sino-American Cooperative Organization), with Tai Li as director. U.S. funds and U.S. experts supported Tai Li. taught him new methods, expanded his guerrillas to 70,000 men. U.S. armed forces received, in return, invaluable data: maps of the South China coast, safe passage for downed airmen, tips on Jap movements...
...give lavish drinking parties. In Happy Valley, near Chungking, site of his secret headquarters, he toasted visitors with innumerable kam pels. He could down 18 Chinese wine cups filled with brandy in an evening's bout. He was hard and he was tender. He personally succored victims of Jap atrocities, established orphanages for Chinese waifs. For Communists and fellow travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited him to dinner, had police arrest him, testified against him in court, had him shot. Friend...
...quiet, palm-edged cemetery at Guadalcanal went the bodies of soldiers, sailors and marines once buried in the Russells, Espiritu Santo and Tulagi. Men who died as prisoners in scattered, Jap-held islets of the Marshalls, soldiers who fell at Makin, marines who died to take Roi and Namur will be moved to the cemetery on Ennylabegan, in the south of Kwajalein Atoll...
...Even the Japs had some better weapons than the U.S. In Tokyo last week, the Navy's Captain Allan L. Dunning reported that a Jap torpedo was superior to any developed by the U.S. or Britain. It carried more explosive farther and faster, and it left no telltale bubble trail...
...appalling scene sent newsmen scurrying from the wharf to fill luridly indignant columns. For four days the story raged. High Army brass seemed to think it was all a teapot-tempest. "Conditions," they said, "are no worse than the Japs accustomed others to." At Canberra the Government seemed to share this eye-for-an-eye philosophy. Officials turned their faces resolutely away from a blizzard of protesting telegrams, tried vainly to shift the blame to the Jap authorities, MacArthur, the Chinese or anyone else handy. Complained one M.P.: "The Government should have forbidden the press to cover the story...