Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic Conference, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were confronted with the fact that Japanese troops had moved into French Indo-China, were massing on the Thailand border, that bellicose Japanese spokesmen were complaining of "encirclement" by the U.S., Britain and China. Churchill urged a joint warning to the Japs, wanted Roosevelt to declare that further Jap aggression would force the U.S. to take counter-measures "even though these might lead to war." The President agreed to the joint warning, boggled at the harsh Churchill phraseology...
November 20. The Jap envoys handed Hull a five-point ultimatum which called for the U.S. to abandon all its checks on Japanese aggression...
...British got Dutch and Indonesian leaders together in Batavia for an in conclusive peace talk. The Dutch had refused to deal with President Soekarno of the "Indonesian Republic" because he collaborated with the Japs. So Soekarno, while keeping nominal power, took a back seat and a new Premier appeared. The new Indonesian leader is small (4 ft. 10½ in., 100 lbs.), scholarly, socialistic Sjahrir, 36. He met his Dutch wife while studying law at Amsterdam, later saw her packed back to Holland when the Dutch exiled him for nationalist activities. He has never seen their twelve-year...
...five days before war's end, he skimmed off the flight deck of the carrier Formidable, led an eight-plane attack on Japanese warships outside Tokyo Bay. Tearing through heavy flak, he piloted his riddled, blazing fighter to within 50 feet of his target, bagged his second Jap destroyer before he plummeted to his death...
...whose stockpile of natural rubber is down to a scant 100,000 tons, got good news from Wallace Ellwood Cake, U.S. Rubber Co. official. He arrived in Manhattan from Sumatra, where he had been a Jap prisoner, with a first-hand report on Far Eastern rubber. Said Cake: 1) the Far East has 250,000 tons of rubber ready to ship; 2) production next year may reach 550,000 tons...