Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jap was pruning the deadwood off the scraggly tree of his Chinese conquest. He took his time about it, and harassed the Chinese armies at every turn-but he retreated. For him the most valuable part of China lay north of the Yangtze River, and he had to return there to defend it. Last week the withdrawing movement gave the Chinese the big prize of Wenchow, ancient treaty port on the east coast. Its occupation increased the Chinese-held coastline to 280 unbroken miles. Another and bigger prize, due to fall momentarily, would be Liuchow, onetime U.S. air base...
...hours the sound truck howled Japanese into the silent bamboo and sword grass of southern Guam's jungle. Suddenly from the green wall emerged a chubby, medium-sized young man, blinking in the sun. While U.S. officers watched, the Jap trudged up the hill and saluted. Ten months after the U.S. recapture of Guam, the last Japanese officer was willing to talk surrender...
Asked the Americans with a face-saving phrase: did the officer "wish to come with us?" Said the officer, after considerable discussion, he would consider it. "Come-with-us" day was set and the Jap returned to the jungle. Nine days later, while a Marine battalion gaped, the Japanese officer marched out with 33 infantrymen, plump from eating stolen U.S. C-rations, wearing stolen U.S. fatigue uniforms...
Passenger Cars. Car rationing can probably be abandoned early in 1946 even if the Jap war is still...
...groups of churchmen who have never thought alike about war last week found themselves in agreement. Both had serious objections to the vagueness of "unconditional surrender" and the obliteration bombing of Jap cities...