Word: yi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drab PBY with red star markings landed at Tokyo's Atsugi Airport. Out squirmed a crowd of uniformed Russians and a stoop-shouldered Chinese peering myopically through violet-tinted horn rims. Henry Pu-yi, the perennial puppet, had been fished out of history's dustbin to testify at the trial of the Jap war criminals...
Joseph Berry Keenan, Chief Prosecutor of the Tokyo Tribunal, thought Pu-yi might give evidence of Jap crimes in Manchuria. The Russians, who have held Henry incommunicado since last August, produced him only on condition that he remain under Soviet control while in Japan. From Atsugi they took Henry to a modest house next to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, where they would have a chance to help him prepare his evidence...
Japan Got the Atom. Chen Yi rounded up scores of "collaborators" while his pooh-bahs made themselves snug. Last week "Down with the Governor!" posters appeared all over the island. In two towns, hungry natives burned sugar godowns. Formosans greeted the few visiting Americans with: "You were kind to the Japanese, you dropped the atom on them. You dropped the Chinese...
...Chinese Governor Chen Yi found the raid-battered Formosans docile. He promptly put his nephew in charge of the Taiwan Co., which bought coal at 200 yen a ton and sold it at 4,000. Black-market gold sold at 300,000 Chinese dollars an ounce, against $180,000 in Shanghai. Even in fertile Formosa, mass starvation threatened...
...literal translation of his name: "Exhibit Public Greatness." In the days when he was an honest man, Chen had never been more than a high-ranking functionary. Now he qualified as the great traitor only because Wang Ching-wei was dead and the Russians held Puppet Emperor Henry Pu-yi of Manchukuo...