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Japan was undergoing a great about-face. The compelling force was the U.S. occupation; the means was the Imperial institution. Although Japan had borrowed freely from the West in matters of technology, ideologically it had steadfastly faced the East. Now it must turn westward...
...remnants of more than 1,000,000 German D.P.s (displaced persons), ousted from Czechoslovakia, were drifting westward and northward. They had fled Silesia before the Red Army. Now their homes were Polish-owned, Russian-ruled. Some hitched rides-on carts, trucks, freight cars, anything that moved on wheels. Others moved gypsy-fashion in creaking covered wagons. Like 60,000 Sudetenlanders expelled with them (and like the Germans from Austria), they were the unwanted children of enforced marriages of nations, now dissolved...
...Manchouli on the west, armored spearheads tipped by armored trains thrust eastward along the Chinese Eastern Railway toward Harbin, making gains up to 50 miles a day. On the north, the Amur River was crossed in two parallel pushes. From the Vladivostok panhandle, two more drives were launched, one westward along the railway to nip Harbin in a giant pincers, the other southward into Korea, where the port of Rashin was captured...
...wanderers choked the roads in Russian-occupied Germany. Ragged, barefoot, with children in their arms, and the shabby remains of homes stacked on perambulators, carts and wheelbarrows, they trudged westward. But they were barred from the British and U.S. zones. No UNRRA was on hand to help, though their problem immensely outscaled that of Displaced Persons elsewhere in Europe...
California is pouring most of her 952,000 barrels a week westward; Texas and the Gulf fields are shipping another 2,700,000 barrels by ship and by rail & pipeline to East and West Coast ports; the Middle East is supplying another 566,000 barrels a day. Before long, oil may again be coming out of Borneo. But it may be only a trickle of 55,000 barrels daily...