Word: traders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejects the legend that the North American Indian could not hold his firewater. More typically, he had to be coaxed at first even to sample it. A tribe would cautiously nominate its oldest-and therefore most expendable-member to take the first sip. Daniel Harmon, a 19th century fur trader whose journal is extensively quoted, reported that as often as not, alcohol had a tranquilizing effect on the Indian initiates. "I had rather have 50 drunken Indians in the fort," he wrote, "than five drunken [French] Canadians." Indeed, the wild and murderous debauches attributed to Indians can be readily explained...
...prosperity sphere" nations. American dominance in Asia is diminishing, and President Nixon's declaration at Guam portends the phasing out of deep involvement by the U.S. here. To lead in Asia again won't be a strange role for Japan, and the Japanese trader with his attache case might still furnish the ultimate victory where kamikaze pilots hit a blank wall...
...salesman is a more pallid?but also more successful?descendant of two other Japanese prototypes. One was the swashbuckling wako, or warrior-trader, who began plundering Asia as early as the 14th century. The second was the soldier-bureaucrat who went to war a generation ago to develop a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," stretching from Manchuria to Burma. His slogan was "Asia for the Asiatics," but his purpose was really to furnish Japan's factories not only with raw materials but also with vast markets for their goods. Today the Japanese have come closer to establishing an informal...