Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victorious administrator of enemy territory and idealistic prophet of democracy, General MacArthur had long disclaimed any responsibility for Japan's economic welfare. But Allied policy had made it necessary to limit her foreign trade and shut off many of her vital materials. By last week Japan's currency had increased by almost 100 billion yen in a single year. Prices spiraled in an inflationary whirlwind that sucked living costs and wage demands high in its wake...
Again & again SCAP had told the Japanese Government to get rid of the Control Association system which perpetuated zaibatsu (big business) domination of the economy but had not been able to raise Japan's production above one-third of the 1930 level. Last week when, in the face of impending economic disaster, the rubbery Yoshida Government again evaded the Control Association issue, MacArthur even threatened to seek advice from the four-power Allied Control Council...
Said one august Control Councilor in surprise: "It's not advice that Japan needs now, but absolution...
...Mustapha Momen of the Arab League, whose delegates represented distant Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia. Said he: "Liberty has dawned and the world is destined to witness another renaissance in Asia." The first voice which had raised a war cry of "Asia for the Asiatics" was missing. Japan was not represented because, said Nehru, "Japanese are not allowed to leave their country at present for such purposes...
James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, ex-U.S. Congressman, possessor of the Order of St. Sophia (Serbia), the Medal of Gratitude (France), and the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), let it out that he had added yet another spray of laurel to his fillet. Dartmouth College and Dean Academy prep school, said the Mayor (still at large pending his appeal from a mail-fraud conviction), had asked him for recordings of his speeches, for the instruction of students in oratory...