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...making. The man who had formulated it, grandiosely and still vaguely, was an American with the face of an aging movie idol, the vision of a statesman and the stature of a great fighter. He was General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) and (in the words of the Japanese), Yankee Emperor of Nippon...
Playwright Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire) was paying the price of international fame. A Tokyo producer, making out an application to SCAP for permission to put on two of Williams' plays, listed their titles (retranslated from the Japanese) as The Zoological Garden within the Glass Enclosure and A Motorbus by Nickname Hope...
...SCAP officials beamed in approval and Actor Kawarasaki followed this triumph with Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Both were popular successes and financial flops. What with high taxes and high admission prices, complained Kawarasaki, "we still have to put on plays which, flatter the people who come...
...most striking new fact about Japan's farms is the just-finished land reform. Spurred by the U.S., pushed past Diet reactionaries by SCAP and often attacked as socialistic, it actually las had an individualist, conservative result...
...first meeting, the council heard from Physicist Harry C. Kelly, acting chief of SCAP's scientific technical division. Said Kelly: "We here share the responsibility of reintroducing Japanese science to the rest of the world . . . We have learned to recognize only the external aspects of Japanese culture, but we know that you Japanese scientists have as much to contribute...