Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Powers of Heaven. In the welter of wonderment about the mysteries of the Jap mentality, certain facts were often overlooked. The "prerogatives" which the victors were asked to preserve included four main powers...
...power in particular seemed all-important to Harry Truman. So far as he could see, the Emperor alone could effectively order the surrender of all the Jap forces still scattered across the torn face of Asia and the Pacific. Some of the President's advisers reasoned that for this reason, if no other, the Emperor had best be left untouched. The President reasoned just the other way: the Emperor must bow specifically and unmistakably to the victor...
...reading, Molotov smiled shyly and peered at the correspondents. The smile seemed to say: "Well, gentlemen?" A correspondent said: "Thank you, Mr. Molotov. Thank you very much." The newsmen then filed their stories and returned to the dreary Hotel Metropole, where the luggage of Jap diplomats and newsmen had already been piled on the stairs. It was 9 p.m. in Moscow, three hours before the beginning of Russia's second war with Japan...
Killed in Service. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); in the crash of a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter; at Burbank, Calif. The round-faced, snub-nosed flyer returned from the Pacific last January, married his Wisconsin sweetheart and was assigned to test-flying...
...Calvin Ferguson, 79, longtime adviser to Chinese governments, founder and first president of Nanking University, ex-president of Nanyang College (now National Ch'iao Tung University), onetime Shanghai newspaper publisher (Sin Wan Pao, Shanghai Times), Chinese art authority; in Clifton Springs, N.Y., 20 months after his repatriation from Jap internment at Peiping...