Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peacemaking Government of Premier Prince Naruhiko-Higashi-Kuni decreed-for what it was worth to the outside world-that autocracy was out, democracy in. An extraordinary "epochmaking" session of the Diet was summoned for Sept. 4 to legalize the shift. The influential Nippon Times editorialized urgently: "The old order is finished and the work of building a new world must be started immediately...
...citizen could find some symbolism in the Trinidad incident. Official Washington, dazed by the swift shift to reconversion, was certain of one thing: the tank was filling up, reconversion was happening. But how smoothly the engine would run, how well the tank would stay put, how far the tired tires would hold up on the way to the good old days, was still largely a matter of guestimating...
TRANSITION Sudden Shift...
...average U.S. citizen was headed into a period of uncertainty that could become critical. Sensing the danger signals, President Truman ordered all U.S. agencies to act speedily for a quick shift to civilian production (see BUSINESS). But whether speed would make up for lack of long-term planning, for Army & Navy insistence on high war production up to war's final week, was a question...
...Chungking's No. 1 ally, the U.S. American policy toward China (said Yenan) has become "definitely imperialistic"; it seeks to reduce China to a "colony or semi-colony" ; U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley (who tried valiantly to bring Chungking and Yenan together) is responsible for an anti-Communist shift in U.S. policy; he had misrepresented the situation to Washington; China must now choose between the "false democracy supported by the U.S. and the real democracy sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party...