Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more food to more stomachs. As chief of FAO since 1945, he has pleaded for governments to stop building armaments and use their money to halt erosion. He also demanded an all-powerful food board to divide available surpluses among the world's havenots. But no great nation has been willing to surrender such power...
Said the "Wee Free's" resolution: ". . . We believe this is ... repugnant to the most sacred convictions of the great mass of His Majesty's most loyal subjects, and sets a most regrettable example before the youth of the nation, who look to Their Royal Highnesses for guidance and inspiration...
...directive he had been given was clear-to obliterate Japan's capacity to make war, and to start the country on the road to becoming a peaceful and democratic nation. The first months after the landings were a wonderful achievement. The Japanese army, navy and air force were liquidated without a shot fired...
...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...
...have differed in many ways-most notably, in Japan there was no quarrelsome quadripartite situation to deal with, and MacArthur had the field to himself-but in both cases the U.S. learned early that no boot-on-the-neck type of peace would work. Germany could have become a nation of peasants (as she would have under the Morgenthau plan), but her industry was necessary to the rest of Europe. Japanese industry is needed, first & foremost, to keep Japan alive, for on her meager acres she could not possibly feed herself even if everyone worked...