Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economics & Rice. This peninsula's capital plant has been worn out by Jap exploitation and the drain of war. Machinery is falling apart, roads are knocked to rubble. Industry is at a standstill -laborers won't work for the former owners, and wage ceilings...
...parties are for independence, nationalism, turning the Jap rascals out. Where they differ is on methodology, nationalizing industry, and on local issues. After years of political frustration there are few strong personalities. One is plump, man-of -good-will Woon Heung Lyuh (pronounced Yuh), 60, head of the provisional commission for rebuilding Korea, nucleus of party No. 3. He is out of circulation at the moment (it appears there were a couple of fist fights). Lyuh told me he wants to set all good Koreans - Communists included - help the reconstruction...
...propagandist, agitator and organizer." It still is, although Pravda has long since changed from agitating agin the Government to agitating for, Another Pravda founder, Joseph Stalin, sees to that. It is also intensely nationalist, devotes scant space to news from outside Russia. (It was a day late reporting the Jap surrender...
...Emperor gossiped cozily (the reporters had agreed not to shoot questions at him). Hirohito marveled that Baillie had reached Japan from the U.S. in four days, asked about U.S. baseball in wartime and remarked that Jap players were a little out of practice. Like Kluckhohn, Baillie had had to submit his questions in advance, was handed the carefully prepared answers on court stationery when he left...
...thin young major from New York asked if Al Smith was still a political power on the sidewalks of New York. A Texas sergeant asked what "G.I." meant. A lad from Brooklyn wanted to know all about "Dem Bums." U.S. soldiers freed from Jap prison camps had a lot to catch...