Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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November 20-25. Franklin Roosevelt, alarmed by the Jap ultimatum, wavered, seriously considered a modus vivendi to last six months. In a penciled note to Cordell Hull he wrote: "U.S. to resume economic relations-some oil and rice now-more later. ... U.S. to introduce Japanese to Chinese to talk things over. . . . Later on Pacific agreements." To Winston Churchill he cabled that this would be "a fair proposition" for the Japs but that he was not hopeful of its acceptance; "we must all be prepared for real trouble, possibly soon...
Allied arms had driven the Japanese from the "Co-Prosperity" version of empire. But ultimate Allied victory could not erase the memory of Japan's spectacular challenge to the West, nor the effect of the Jap propaganda slogan, "Asia for the Asiatics...
Myth v. Fact. The Russians may be stripping Manchuria's factories, but there is no evidence of it in Suichung. This southwestern outpost of Jap and Russian occupation has only one factory-a mercury refinery erected years...
...ships and planes. -Headquarters for counter-radar was Harvard's Biological Laboratory. The lab's peacetime monkeys and pickled dogfish were replaced by a regiment of electronic engineers. Their job was to poke fingers into enemy radar eyes. To get in practice for far-off German and Jap radars, the Harvardmen picked on the Radiation Lab at M.I.T., a mile away. The bitter war raged across the roofs of Cambridge...
...OPEN WAR. Same afternoon, the New Dealing New York Post saw it just the other way: JAP WAR PLANS SET BEFORE TALKS...