Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better medical services become available; but the birth rate drops too, and the curve of population increase levels off. In some cases the population actually declines. Nearly every industrialized nation has passed through these stages. Industrial Britain's population rate curve resembles strikingly the curve of industrial Japan (see map). Britain has reached, and Japan has almost reached, a stable population level...
Judd: The U.S., in fact, would have either to withdraw from Japan, would it not, or continue to support her in definitely with uncounted sums of money? Marshall: We would face a very serious situation...
Marshall: We would have to put forth great effort to insure that Japan continued to move under her own steam...
Last week Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger, who commanded the Eighth Army in Japan, picked up the prediction where Marshall left off. Said he, in a Chicago'speech: "One can appreciate what a great prize Japan would be to the Communist nations . . . To the U.S., Canada, the Philippines and Australia it would signify the loss of World War II and a potential defeat in the Pacific in any future war that might be forced upon...
Helen Keller was feeling O.K., but Companion Polly Thompson was ill. After touring New Zealand, Australia and part of Japan, they canceled the rest of their trip (to China, Korea, Siam, India, Pakistan, Burma, and points Middle East), and booked passage home...