Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interim committee with a panel of four scientists was set up to keep the President advised. On June 1 the committee resolved that 1) "the bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible, 2) used on a dual target-that is, a military installation or war plant surrounded by or adjacent to houses and other buildings most susceptible to damage, 3) used without prior warning...
...Japan "must be administered a tremendous shock." Otherwise, "only the complete destruction of her military power could open the way to lasting peace." He compiled a tally of debits and credits in property and in human relationships and human lives...
...guessed what social force (the lash or superstition) called forth so mighty an effort, or what happened to the people who built Fortress Nanmatol. Director Peter H. Buck of Honolulu's Bishop Museum (whose mother was a New Zealand Maori) hopes the U.S. will clear up Japan's neglected mystery and retell the tale of the daring, industrious primitives who sailed the Pacific sea reaches millenniums...
Spitzbergen and Bear Islands, north of Norway, were deeded to that country by treaty in 1919, with the stipulation that the islands were to be demilitarized permanently. In the convention that signed the treaty were representatives of Japan, as well as 29 other nations. The Soviets currently feel that the signatures of the Japanese representatives invalidate the entire proceedings, thus paving the way for new disposition of claims for the island. Among these claims is the oft-repeated desire of the Russian government to share in the "defense" of the Spitzbergen Islands...
...last war, would be scratched from the books. And the fate of the Dardanelles and the Dodecanese Islands would be transferred from the conference tables of the original signatories to bi-lateral agreements between the Greeks and the Russians, or the Turks and the Russians. If the presence of Japan at Montreux relegates this treaty to the scrap-heap, Europe can look to a new wave of forced agreements between unequal bargaining units that would spell death to the U.N. system and smack too strongly of the pilgrimages of European statesmen to Berchtesgaden...