Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calculated Policy. The ex-President testified to the necessity of the War Department's $725 million request to carry on the occupation of Korea, Japan, Germany and Austria. Said he: "These enormous sums are inescapable for the next year unless millions of people under our Lags are to die of starvation." But the problem was bigger than any single staggering bill for aid. U.S. aid might forestall successive emergencies; it could not solve the world economic crisis. In time the continuous financial hemorrhage must debilitate U.S. economy. This, Hoover implied, was Russia's calculated policy...
...threat to be met? In Western Europe, said Hoover, by restoring (under suitable supervision) the productive capacity of Germany, Europe's industrial powerhouse. In Asia, by restoring the productive power of Japan...
...Japan, an Army C-54 rammed into a mountain: 40 killed. In Iceland, a U.S.-made DC-3, operated by Icelandic Airways, crashed into a mountain peak: 25 killed. The crashes were scarcely noticed, because disaster had also struck resoundingly at home...
...were being run according to the familiar prewar stage directions, there were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist Suehiro Nishio, is a former steel worker...
...feudal times Japan's Eta were a semi-slave class of undetermined origin entrusted with the tanning, butchering of animals and other traditionally degrading tasks. Although legal restrictions against them were removed in 1871, Japan's 3,000,000 Eta are still social outcasts, generally live by themselves in ghettolike settlements...