Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparent Jap attempt still puzzles CWS. Two bottles of water drifted in from the Pacific by balloon. One was no more polluted than tap water in some careless cities' municipal water systems; the other, for reasons known only to Tokyo, contained sterile water...
...Patrons. Like a good steward, MacArthur carefully included statements that would interest his patrons. Both Britain and Russia received a tribute: ¶ Jap laborites, the General reported, are sponsoring the Social Democratic Party in the belief that "political action along lines followed by the British Labor Party is the most certain means of attaining their objectives." ¶ Japan's Communists have been "keenly felt on the political scene" and have "carried on a vigorous program of activity...
...about starvation? We have only eight Government officers in a city of nearly three million." In another prefecture, less than half the 250 war plants that wanted to make peacetime products have even been examined-and after each such survey, it takes weeks to divest local Jap authorities of their national aptitude for red tape, graft and apathy, before the factory gets going again...
...MacArthur made much progress with the inscrutable Jap mind, which has found it no trouble at all to evade or "misunderstand" his directives. Large landowners have proved especially skillful at dodging. Instead of breaking up their estates under MacArthur's ordered land reforms, many have just registered part of their holdings under other names...
Last week one ranking American in Japan admitted that nothing practical could be done about land reform until there was a strong farmers' cooperative which could exert pressure on the Jap Government through future Diet representation. Many another MacArthur reform needed similar backing by interested Japs before it would be effective...