Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trim & Adaptable. The State Department eyed a somewhat brighter spot in the Far East-the trim, adaptable, hardworking nation of Japan. Japan was under the direct and all-but-absolute control of the U.S. Strategically, it flanked the Asiatic mainland as England flanked Europe. What was more, Japan had a powerful spokesman, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur...
...months, MacArthur had urged an early peace treaty for Japan. Continued U.S. occupation, he argued, would serve only to alienate a potentially valuable ally...
George Marshall had decided that MacArthur was right. A fortnight ago, State quietly insisted to interested Governments that the Japanese treaty be drawn immediately. The date the U.S. wanted "was August 19, at San Francisco. MacArthur had already taken the first step toward priming the pump of Japan's economy by setting August 15 for the "opening" of Japan to 400 outside businessmen...
...Japan's economy was also sick; Japan would need substantial political and economic support from the U.S. Washington had scheduled $270 million for Japanese relief in the next year, plus $600 million for U.S. occupation troops-insurance against Japan's turning to Communism. Chiang Kaishek, a onetime war ally of the U.S. and a notable opponent of Communism in China, might see some injustice in all this, but circumstances dictated policies. From the State Department point of view, the "overall situation" of China at present looked hopeless; Japan was a better proposition strategically. China's best hope...
...mysterious ''flying saucers" that had bedeviled the heavens for a fortnight (TIME, July 14) seemed to have whisked back to Wonderland. A few U.S. citizens still saw them, last week; so did people in England, Italy, Chile, Iran, Holland, Japan and China (see A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER). But by last week the "somethings" had petered out into a trail of rueful headshaking and self-conscious laughter...