Word: okinawa
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...assistant communications officer, communications officer, ship's first lieutenant and navigator. Later he was reassigned to another minesweeper, the Southard, saw action in six Pacific campaigns. He rose to executive officer, had been recommended to become captain of his ship when it was wrecked in a typhoon at Okinawa...
Conscientiously, the U.S. has set up a representative government for Okinawa, with native courts and a 29-man elective legislature, for which it has built a fine modern building that any U.S. state legislature might envy. But the chief executive, a pleasant, bald, one-armed ex-schoolteacher named Shuhei Higa, is appointed by the U.S. Civil Administration (USCAR), and his office is in the U.S. administration building directly beneath USCAR offices. Anything that the native government does, USCAR can veto -though it rarely has. Newspapers are not censored, but editors who criticize the U.S. occupation too freely...
Kadena Air Base, with its 9,000-ft. runway, has become the Air Force's most important Far Eastern home. Naha Air Base is nearly as big. The Army, Defense Secretary Wilson declared recently, expects to make Okinawa its major troop base, capable of staging more troops than it handled (182,000) in World War II. And when the rest of the 3rd Marine Division, now scattered from Japan to Hawaii, makes its scheduled move to Okinawa when housing is ready, Okinawa will be headquarters for the largest Marine striking force in the Orient...
...often proclaimed that it wanted no territorial gain out of World War II. The big exception is Okinawa. According to an official U.S. Army handout, Okinawa-based bombers "have a far greater flexibility in choice of target areas than those based in either Japan or in the Philippines . . . They can reach all important target areas within an arc which includes all of Southeast Asia, the whole of China, the Lake Baikal industrial area, eastern Siberia, and the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula." In other words, Okinawa is the spearhead of U.S. retaliatory power in the Far East...
...thrust into the colonial business. It has taken on 790,000 wards; and U.S. officials on the scene are a little sheepish about their role. Okinawans see all about them - in the widening airstrips, the concrete barracks, the four-lane highways - visible evidence that their latest conquerors are in Okinawa to stay. The legal situation is deliberately fuzzy. The U.S. has acknowledged Japan's "residual sovereignty" over Okinawa. But by the Japanese Peace Treaty, Japan promised to concur if the U.S. proposed a U.N. trusteeship for Okinawa "with the U.S. as sole administering authority," and pending such trusteeship, granted...