Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans and readied staffs to arrange the surrender and begin the actual occupation had nothing to do with the basic theory that conquered Japan should be ruled through its abjectly subordinated Emperor. In fact, having once chosen to deal with and through the Emperor, the occupiers could only hope & pray that he would be able to take and hold effective control until they could land troops in Japan. For better or for worse, the whole success of the occupation turned temporarily on the Emperor's success in fashioning a surrender government...
...thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies; and we pray that He may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes...
...every U.S. citizen, as well as to every statesman, the victory of peace had a solemn urgency it had never had before. In London, Winston Churchill said: "We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among nations and that, instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, they may become the perennial fountain of world prosperity...
Born. To Lieut. Thomas Dudley Har mon, A.A.F.. 25, survivor of two plane crashes, hero of one movie (Harmon of Michigan}, one book (Pilots Also Pray}, many a Michigan football game (All-America, 1939, 1940); and Elyse Knox. 27, blonde screen starlet: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Sharon Kristan. Weight...
...course, if you are one of those-and there seem to be many in this country-who want the Japs running your land, there is little we can do except to pray for your misguided soul. The only possible consolation we can see in that picture is that, if the Jap takes over, he perhaps might do a better job of running TIME than do some...