Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portion of them belong to the Bund. I see no reason for falling victim to the racist doctrines of the fascists. From the observations I've made, I'm scarcely alone in taking this attitude. I can confidently say that there is no great cry for martial law on the West Coast...
...under martial law, General Emmons has requisitioned sugar lands for use as airports, gun emplacements, kitchen gardens. The big Aiea Plantation, near Pearl Harbor, has lost more than 1,000 acres (30 were in garden crops). But years will be needed to make Hawaii self-sufficient...
...official scapegoats for the Pearl Harbor disaster-Major General Walter C. Short, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel-went into voluntary retirement last week. But not to batten peacefully on their retirement pay ($6,000 a year). The Army & Navy were preparing to court-martial them. Just when the trials would come off was left hazy. The courts-martial would be held, the War and Navy Departments announced, when "the public interest and safety" permit...
President Roosevelt gave the Army control over certain movements of U.S. citizens and resident aliens alike, authorized Secretary of War Stimson to throw anyone out of a "military area" whenever he saw fit. The order was not martial law-not quite. But from California, tense over its 98,000 alien-and-American-born Japs, came an audible sigh of relief. Washington had apparently waked up at last to the West Coast...
...Martial Years. The next decade saw Japan on the march, first in Manchuria, then in China. Yamashita, who served a term in the War Office as Chief of the Military Affairs Division, began to talk Nazi-fashion. "War," he said, "is the mother of creation." Japan, he cried, was a have-not. Morals, he decreed, must be simon-pure...