Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nonpolitical military man, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur sounded strangely like a presidential candidate last week. From the busy Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan came a letter to the Republican National Committee...
White paper roses adorned the lapels of Liberal (meaning ultraconservative) Party members in Japan's Diet. The roses were to remind Diet members to behave like gentlemen during the voting for the new Prime Minister.* The reminder was effective, but it did not help the Liberals' own candidate, Shigeru Yoshida. In an orderly manner, the Diet's lower chamber voted for busy, birdlike Hitoshi Ashida, leader of the Democratic (meaning mildly conservative) Party...
Ashida received 216 votes (five more than the required majority), while rose-wearing Yoshida got 180. The Diet's upper chamber voted the other way, 104-102; but under Japan's new constitution this was merely another nosegay for the loser: the vote in the lower house was the only one that counted...
...copy of the report was sent to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. If General MacArthur did not change his ways, the correspondents hoped that the A.S.N.E. would investigate "intimidation, coercion and censorship" in Japan...
...That one correspondent had been excluded from Japan for "marked antipathy toward American policy. At one time or another almost every correspondent . . . has faced the same charge...