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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economics of Defeat. When MacArthur took over Japan, the country's economic situation was desperate. For decades, Japan, one of the world's great trading nations, had supported itself from markets around the world; its best customers were the U.S., China and India. By ruthless seizure it was the master of fabulously wealthy Manchuria, the chief prize in the treasurehouse of the "greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." When the war ended, the great trading empire was shattered. Gone also were four-fifths of the Japanese merchant ships that had carried her trade. Eighty-one million people (increasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...restore Japanese trade. U.S. trustbusters were still locked in stalemate with the Zaibatsu. Last summer the U.S. State Department intervened. Top Planner George Kennan took a long look at Japan. He recommended a basic change in policy, aimed at Japan's self-government, self-respect and self-support. Last December, a firm economic directive was finally drafted for MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...support, Munnings turned to Honorary Academician Extraordinary Winston Churchill, who sat with him at the speakers' table. "Not long ago," he recalled, "Mr. Churchill and I were walking together. Mr. Churchill said to me, 'Alfred, if we saw Picasso coming down this street towards us, would you join me in kicking hard a certain part of him?' I said, 'By God, Winston, I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Damned Nonsense | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...longer something to be afraid of." Minneapolis-born and Vienna-trained, Ben Swalin had had his big idea for a traveling symphony while teaching music appreciation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There was hardly a city in the state that was large enough to support a regular symphony. Swalin decided that if people couldn't come to the music, then the music should be brought to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On the Move | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Good Will & $2. North Carolinians appreciate their orchestra, and more & more of them have been signing up in local branches of the symphony society which Ben and his wife Maxine have organized. Today, he has some 20,000 supporting members, and "even if most of them are $2 members, the support and good will are there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On the Move | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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