Word: scap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marion Tilton went to work in Japan for SCAP in 1946 to encourage the growth of Japan's silk industry, once the nation's biggest dollar earner. It seemed a hopeless job. A wartime government order scrapping silk looms as nonessential wrecked the industry in Japan, while U.S. scientists wrecked it abroad by giving women a new set of materials which no hard-working silkworm could hope to match...
...silk evangelist decided that Government sponsorship was not the answer, but private enterprise might be. She signed up Abbot J. Copeland, a merchandising head of Cohama, biggest U.S. silk importer, got the title of Japan manager of Cohama, and resigned from SCAP...
...food for Pri[s]oners and I the scap[e]goat...
...Ministry's thought police haunted Japan's moviehouses armed with tape measures. They had the power to stop any showing, measure the films to make sure that no militaristic propaganda had been clipped from them. During World War II, the only films produced were propaganda, and when SCAP censors took over at war's end, the results were little better. Despite the censorship, a horde of leftist directors, writers and actors, who had been kept out of the movies during the military dictatorship, began making films that gave credit to Japanese Reds for the emancipation of Japanese...
...Walter Crosby Eells, onetime adviser on higher education to SCAP in Tokyo, heard the story, he was neither shocked nor surprised. He was near the end of a two-year swing through the school and college campuses of 39 nations of Asia, Africa and the Near East, was already convinced by scores of similar stories that the campuses of the world have become major targets of Communist policy. Last week he published his ominous findings in a special report-Communism in Education in Asia, Africa and the Far Pacific (American Council on Education...