Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a Western nation won a quick, clean-cut victory in Asia. The Dutch had grasped the nettle. At Jogjakarta, where the square rock still stands, they had seized the top Indonesian Nationalist leaders (TIME, Dec. 27). In ten days after their attack, they had captured every major city of Republican Java...
...Supreme Court, after voting 5 to 4 to hear argument on whether to review the legality of the eleven-nation Tokyo tribunal, decided 6 to 1 that it had no jurisdiction to review the verdict. The Japanese-and many Americans-were somewhat bewildered by these final hesitations. There were to be no more. The seven understood that; they waited in Tokyo's quiet Sugamo prison for General Douglas MacArthur to fix the date of execution...
...government's main task," he said, "must be to increase its strength militarily and administratively . . . If we can't fight, we can't talk about peace. The nation will have no chance to survive." The Premier seemed to be saying that Nationalist China was ready for conditional peace, but was determined to struggle on as long as possible against unconditional surrender...
...over to the Communists the great industrial and trading center of Kalgan, with all its bulging warehouses and factories intact. No destruction of any kind was carried out. Explained General Fu blandly: "All supplies, factories and manufactured products there . . . are wealth of the people and the property of the nation...
Duke Ellington was the nation's No. 1 bandleader (for the fifth time), and top soloist (for the first time), according to Down Beat magazine's annual poll. Spike Jones was again King of Corn, nosing out Guy Lombard and Vaughn Monroe...