Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catastrophe & Sin. Jap propaganda, by stressing the atomic bomb, likened defeat to a natural calamity. Said Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni: "The cause of our defeat was the sudden collapse of our fighting strength." Japanese seemed eager to accept this explanation. Perhaps they would never realize that, before the atomic bomb was dropped, their navy & merchant marine had been sunk, their air force whipped, their army outclassed...
...guilt they seemed to feel not at all. Some students of Japanese history maintain that in ancient and modern Japanese ethics there is no sense of guilt. Sin and catastrophe are in the same category. The war's disastrous end was grievous as earthquakes had been grievous. Defeat polluted but did not necessarily shame; it called, perhaps, for "purification," but not for repentance and atonement...
Koreans trace their national history back 4,000 years. They say they were the first people to have a national flag (1,000 B.C.), an encyclopedia (circa 1405), a solar observatory, a printing press (1403), and an ironclad navy (1592), which, under redoubtable Admiral Yi Sun Sin, inflicted the only defeat on the Japanese fleet before...
Died. Dr. John Calvin Ferguson, 79, longtime adviser to Chinese governments, founder and first president of Nanking University, ex-president of Nanyang College (now National Ch'iao Tung University), onetime Shanghai newspaper publisher (Sin Wan Pao, Shanghai Times), Chinese art authority; in Clifton Springs, N.Y., 20 months after his repatriation from Jap internment at Peiping...
Vansittart's preoccupation with German original sin also turns up in his constant -and inaccurate-use of "Hun."* This practice has done much to build the legend of Vansittartism, misconceived as a ferocious intent to wipe every last German from the earth's face. Yet Bones of Contention follows the line of Vansittart's former books in sober, well-documented, closely reasoned advocacy of a hard peace for Germany. Vansittart's flashes of hatred are incidental to his solid analysis of how the Germans got the way they are and what to do about them...