Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europe's leftist press-and by many other papers. U.S. newsmen in Paris became curious. A quick check showed that some overeager beaver in Moscow had committed a prize boner. The map in question was entitled: "War Map III, featuring the Pacific Theater." It covered Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia. It was published in December 1944, as an ad for Esso; it was the third in a series designed to help the U.S. public follow the progress of World War II (earlier maps had covered the European and African theaters...
Last week the Air Force celebrated its first birthday as an independent arm of equal status with the Army & Navy. It flew bombers nonstop to the U.S. from Japan and Germany. It set a new speed record. And in Germany it demonstrated what the airlift could do when it really turned on the heat...
...Tentative Arrangements." At Yalta, Sherwood reminded his readers, F.D.R. was doing his utmost to enlist Russia's aid in the war against Japan (the atom bomb had not been finally developed). Stalin laid down his terms. In addition to Japanese-mandated southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, Stalin wanted title to the Chinese ports of Dairen and Port Arthur, use of the Manchurian railways. Otherwise Stalin did not see how he could ever explain to his people why Russia was going to war against Japan...
Rising Sun is the third volume in Morison's naval history of the war, and the first of eight on the war against Japan. Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer of Columbus and professor of history at Harvard, Morison got his big job from his friend Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 and has had all the Navy's help in carrying it out. He uses official facts (including Japanese naval records) and his own judgment...
Militarists Made Desperate. Japan, says Captain Morison, might never have made war on the U.S. if U.S. diplomacy had been wiser. Two cardinal errors were the Immigration Act of 1924, excluding Japanese, and the insistence on naval limitation. The first discredited the liberal policy that had been making headway in Japan; the second "rendered the militarists desperate." Among the results were assassinations of liberal statesmen in Tokyo and deliberate attacks on Americans in China, including the sinking of the river gunboat Panay in 1937. That was also the year that the Japanese navy laid down, in secret, the hulls...