Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still only a faint hope; no soldier soundly believed there was yet any sure way to beat Japan, short of a juggernaut invasion. But there was good reason to try other measures at the same time...
...mentioned among the extracurricular activities for the short summer term in last week's SERVICE NEWS, Phillips Brooks House, center of Harvard's social service activities, is starting back to its pre-war set-up and plans a re-activated summer schedule, according to John W. Ellison '44, who has returned to Harvard to reconvert...
Home Minister Genki Abe called upon the People's Volunteer Corps to abandon "all thoughts of self and life." Sugar King, Aiichiro Fujiyama announced that: "Japan's big business is not in any way interested in anything short of a total victory." Tokyo's motor transport was drafted for defense. Writers were enlisted for home-front propaganda. Cried Radio Tokyo: "The sooner the enemy comes, the better for us, for our battle array is complete...
...China needed U.S. economic aid. Military aid has been greatly increased, but economic help is still far short of China's needs. The Generalissimo hoped the U.S. would send more economic experts-"the more that come the greater will be our welcome. . . . Military and economic factors are equally important. If one is neglected the other will suffer. . . ." China's soldiers still needed weapons and supplies. In the Generalissimo's opinion, a properly equipped Chinese Army might shorten the war in Asia by a full year, cut in half the number of troops required to beat Japan...
...Szechwan Province (biggest city: Chungking), drought threatened the crops. Seven Chungking patriots organized a "Praying-for-the-Rain Dragon Corps." They paraded in time-honored rainmaking costume: short trousers, bare chests, bands of green grass around their heads. They shouted and beat gongs...