Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vouchsafed a glimpse-such as Franklin Roosevelt's afterdeck chats with Near Eastern potentates; here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales. I for one should like to know what really passed at Yalta. This will all come out 20 years hence, when Stalin writes his war memoirs. . . . But I shall...
...three separate occasions he tried to sidetrack BOLERO for a less risky venture. The last time, Stimson wrote angrily in his diary: "As the British won't go through with what they agreed to, we will turn our backs on them and take up the war with Japan." In Roosevelt's case, it was a question of "some operation in 1942" and a "lingering predilection for the Mediterranean." The resulting compromise was the invasion of North Africa, a bitter disappointment to Stimson, but "the only operation that satisfied both...
...doesn't matter whether Chiang is a benevolent despot-which he is-or a republican or a democrat. The fact is, the man has fought Communism all his life. He stood by us as an ally in the war when he might have accepted favorable peace terms from Japan...
...cent. The State Department, said John Taber, had not "justified" China's need (see Foreign Relations). For good measure, tight-fisted Mr. Taber wanted a 53% cut (fron; $490 million to $230 million) in the funds requested by the Army to meet occupational expenses in Germany, Austria, Japan, the Ryukyus and Korea. There was little doubt that parts, at least, of all these cuts would eventually be restored.* But, against only desultory opposition on the floor, John Taber readily got the House to approve his recommendations...
...Japan, some thugs run to a gentlemanly stripe. One such is Matsukichi Tsumaki, 47, a sekkyo goto (preaching bandit), who last week stepped from Akita prison in northern Honshu, a free...