Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign relations hinges on the answer to one question: "What are the aims of Soviet Russia?" Specifically, will the USSR be satisfied with security or is she planning a program of territorial expansion beyond the requirements of national safety? Russia's actions subsequent to the capitulation of Germany and Japan can be interpreted so as to support either possibility. As yet no one this side of the "iron curtain" not even the "experts" of Harvard's high-powered government department, can be sure which interpretation is correct...
...have no more business in the political affairs of Eastern Europe than Russia has in the political affairs of ... the United States. . . . We are striving to democratize Japan and our area of control in Germany while Russia strives to socialize eastern Germany...
...Japan too celebrated the harvest moon with a "Moon Viewing Festival." Millions of Japanese came out to gaze skyward, to dance and feast in honor of harvest home. Some remembered that in Japanese tradition the moon also symbolizes homesickness. Outside the cream-colored Russian Embassy in Tokyo, 3,000 men & women, mostly elderly farmers, marched slowly back & forth, bowing as they passed the big iron gate. In their hands were small white banners decorated with moons. One banner was inscribed: "Oh moon, tell me where...
...they had been pressed into slave labor in Siberia; 2) they were being held in Soviet hands to make sure that the U.S. could never use them in a war against Russia; 3) they were being held for use by the Russians themselves, either as a fifth column for Japan or as mercenary shock troops. The Soviet failure to repatriate Japanese prisoners was clearly a violation of the Potsdam Agreement. General Mac-Arthur had offered ships and aid to bring the missing Japanese home. But negotiations had broken down when the Russians refused to discuss military prisoners...
...Japs did almost as much as any government-perhaps more than the U.S.* ;to commemorate their war in oils. As early as 1938 the military began combing its files on Japan's 20,000 registered artists (most of whom specialize in still life), and chose 100 to glorify the Rising Sun. Their work, on exhibition last week, was as painstakingly photographic and heroic as modern Soviet painting. Technically it was perhaps the equal of state-sponsored war painting in Russia, Britain...