Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Tokyo this week, on the tenth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled a report on the state of Japan...
...Pearl Harbor Day, 1951, finds Japan a rising sun once more, and the snow on the manly pine melting fast. The most dynamic, aggressive and industrialized people in Asia are again preparing themselves for the responsibilities and delights of sovereignty. Already the scene is changing. Trim, alert members of the National Police Reserve (nucleus of the army Japan must inevitably raise to defend herself) train with U.S. carbines, mortars, bazookas and light machine guns. The old zaibatsu (financial cliques) are reviving under new names. Recently a dozen offspring of the old Mitsubishi Commercial Co. combined into four large firms...
...sizable peace-at-any-price vote from Harry Truman. It is reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt's famous speech in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize when he said that he was for peace, but "peace with righteousness." And it is a vast advance over Taft's pre-Pearl Harbor statement that war would be worse than a German victory over Britain...
...Notable exceptions: Admiral Claude C. Bloch, who at 61, stepped down from his four-star job as chief of the U.S. Fleet to serve as a two-star admiral under his former subordinate, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, at Pearl Harbor; General Frank M. Andrews, who dropped from major general to a colonelcy after a four-year tour of staff duty at Air Force headquarters in 1939, stayed on, and became a lieutenant general in 1941, two years before his death in a plane crash...
...history of the Pacific world from 1931 to the present day. It deals with the awakening continent of Asia and the fighting in Korea as well as with Japan's meteoric rise & fall. Included in the welter of history are such memorable vignettes as the chaos of Pearl Harbor, the raising of the U.S. flag on the summit of Iwo Jima, the cloud of smoke & fire above Hiroshima. To keep abreast of the news, MOT will not shoot until the last minute some of the footage for the last of the 26 installments...