Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Export or Die. However the Review Board might rule, there would be no solution to Japan's long-range problem until she began to trade again. And here the Japanese were still impaled on the horns of their own lamentable modern history...
...after swallowing Manchuria but before tackling the rest of China and the world), Japan maintained in her home islands 70 million people. They subsisted as a nation on a thriving trade with Asia and the West. But in 1948 the overseas empire of Japan was gone; and now almost 80 million people were packed into the home islands. As with the British, the cry of the Japanese could well be: "Export...
Industry required trade. With whom could the Japanese trade? And could they achieve sufficient trade, by any means, to maintain their population without outside doles forever? SCAP was looking for an answer to the first question, at least, last week. For the first time since the occupation began, SCAP trade missions (including Japanese) were out digging up orders. In New Delhi the missioners got a warm welcome. They were garlanded with roses and handed jasmine bouquets; Premier Nehru sent "greetings and good wishes" to the Japanese people. India wanted textile machinery and was willing to give coal, jute...
...China, Manchuria, Korea? The question reminded the men of SCAP that the answer depended on more than the enmity or forgiveness of those peoples. So long as large areas of those countries were Communist battlefields, there would be little chance of restoring trade. Japan might (for a while) continue to subsist on U.S. doles, a prostrate ward. But its long-range prospects as a free nation would be hopeless...
...purists were fighting uphill. Most of Quebec's women say "lipstick" for rouge a levres, and "Cutex" (a trade name) for any nail polish-vernis a angles. In the sports arena, their menfolk scream: L'arbitre est un robber! A prizefight announcer cries: Le champion a knockoute son adversaire. And French Canadians of both sexes grin as they say II faut se watcher...