Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dead Men Make No Reports. Several factors had ordained secrecy about the Kamikaze attacks. At first they were made by only one or two planes at a time; they might have been merely a show of fatal bravado by individual Jap airmen. Obviously no suicide pilot ever returned to report. The Jap command had no way of knowing how the attacks turned out, and the Navy took pains not to tell...
...incredibly tough fighting remained. In northern Luzon strong Jap forces, bountifully supplied from their Aparri base, were holding their mountain lines before Baguio. The weary 25th Division in Balete Pass won and lost a single hill four times; after four weeks' bitter fighting it had managed to gain 1,000 yards. Thirty-third Division troops fought artillery duels with Japs snugly hidden in caves on mountain slopes. Bit by bit both divisions worked closer to their objectives. On Mindanao the slow cleanup of Zamboanga peninsula continued. Davao, the excellent port and key area of the second largest island...
Perhaps, as some Allied observers hoped, the senescent figure of Baron Suzuki was a front for a negotiated peace. "The Jap Cabinet shake-up," cracked one, "is really a plea for mercy...
...speed things up, WPB will loosen the Controlled Materials Plan, which now straitjackets industry. Eventually it will drop it in favor of a simple system of priorities, controlling only such materials as are needed for the Jap...
...probabilities" about the future of Russo-Japanese relations. Reason: "speculations . . . however erroneous they might prove to be, could possibly lead to a Japanese attack on Russia." The Washington Post, which like many a U.S. paper had already made the obvious deduction that Russia's denunciation of its Jap pact "bodes a break sooner or later," confessed to unwittingly violating censorship: "Our consternation over the gaffe is somewhat lightened by the discovery that we are in rather distinguished company . . . Senator Elbert Thomas [and] Senator Johnson...