Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago last week Hitler went to war against Poland. Four years ago Douglas MacArthur, with a cigarette holder in his mouth, stepped down from an airplane toward the tall grass waving in the south wind at Atsugi airfield, Japan. That was a time of hope...
MacArthur last week proclaimed anew Japan's conversion to democracy. Whenever talk of East Asia congealed with gloom, someone said: "Japan is the hope." And whoever looked at the possibilities of protecting Western Europe said: "The Germans will defend us." Winston Churchill, who used to call the Germans "the dull brute mass," more recently referred to them as "a mighty race without whose effective aid the glory of Europe could not be revived...
...present and the past in mind. In 1949 Korea is menaced by Communist aggression. In 1592 Korea was menaced by Japanese aggression. Then, their valorous Admiral Yisunsin built the world's first armor-clad ships. Shaped like turtles, these craft rammed and destroyed an invasion armada under Japan's Hideyoshi...
...another speech, on the anniversary of V-J day, Mayor Chen Yi revealed a striking historical fact, hitherto known only to some of the more eager Communist scholars. Said he: "On this day, four years ago, Soviet Russia defeated Japan and brought the second World War to a conclusion...
Hiroshima and Japan-Four Years Later (Sun. 4:30 p.m., ABC). Report by Norman Cousins...