Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Through the Jap code (which the U.S. had in its pocket before Pearl Harbor), President Franklin Roosevelt and the Washington high command knew, hours before the attack, that Japan was breaking off negotiations, that this meant a surprise attack somewhere in the Pacific...
Last week into Domei's Tokyo offices stomped U.S. officers with an order from the Supreme Commander to close up shop (see INTERNATIONAL). Then Colonel Donald Hoover, censorship officer of U.S. counter intelligence, summoned Jap news chiefs and read them the riot...
...picture proves neither the U.S. nor the Jap contention. But it does prove that the New Mexico bomb, exploding only 100 feet above the ground, left a quarter-mile area covered with materials which were radioactive enough, nine weeks later, to take X-ray pictures...
...that there is little possibility of the U.S. getting tin from the rich mines of the Far East (Malaya, Burma, Siam, The Netherlands East Indies) for two years-the time it takes to build, ship and set up dredging machinery. Tin experts think that hidden stocks of tin and Jap machinery still may be found there...
...Whereas World War II has so devastated Europe as to force her people to turn Spartan, it has merely been "highly profitable [and] swell for U.S. workers, for farmers, for a majority of Americans." Few Americans realize that in "fighting German Naziism and Jap Shintoism, [the U.S.] is gradually being dragged down to the moral level of what she fights...