Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Douglas MacArthur usually sloughs off Soviet gibes at his occupation policies with silent, five-starred disdain. Last week he broke with custom, made a sharp reply to the latest official Russian blast against him-a letter from Lieut. General Kuzma N. Derevyanko, Soviet member of the Allied Council for Japan...
...General Derevyanko's letter] talk of greater liberality for Japanese workers and the Soviet practice of labor exploitation is a shocking demonstration of inconsistent demagoguery." The letter, MacArthur thundered, was designed to incite Japan's irresponsible and unruly "minority elements" against the country's duly constituted government and "to screen the Soviet's unconscionable failure to abide by the Potsdam commitments in the return of 400,000 Japanese citizens, long held in bondage, to their homeland...
...Japan is moving toward democracy and China toward Communism. Thrust out into the sea between them lies Korea, which is moving in both directions. Last week President Truman asked Congress for $150 million of ECAid to keep South Korea stable after U.S. occupation forces complete their withdrawal in a few weeks. If South Korea falters, Communist North Korea will gobble it, and that, in turn, would encourage anti-democratic forces from Japan around to India...
...government relies on the police, most of whose key officials are hated because they originally worked for Japan. The country is under modified martial law, and there are frequent arbitrary arrests. Since the government took over from U.S. military authorities last August, it has closed 16 newspapers and magazines. The latest was the Seoul Shin Mun, the country's largest newspaper. A government spokesman explained that Shin Mun had "reprinted only 40% of official releases in the past four months and is therefore clearly anti-government...
Nowhere had theaters sprung up in such large numbers as in India and Pakistan, which had increased their picture houses 43.3%. Italy and Germany spawned the largest increases in Europe, where Soviet Russia still boasted the biggest total of movie theaters (12,614). Japan led in the Far East...