A NEW WORD
"It will take a thousand years.’*
"Democracy can never work in Japan.”
"... the biggest post-war headache
cf them all.”
A year AGO, pessimistic state
ments like these were commonplace. Few
f people thought that the occupation of
Japan could be anything but drawn-out
and discouraging.
And yet, today, the world acknowledges the brilliant com
petence of the U. S. Army’s performance in bringing a new
way of life to a conquered nation.
Miss Helen Mears, writing in a recent issue of The New
Yorker, put it this way: “Considering that it is only a little
more than a year since the first American troops landed in
Japan ... conditions today are astonishing. ... The occupation
has become ... so efficient that life in Japan is no more
difficult or dangerous than life at home. . . . From the GI
right on up the line, the word ... is ‘good duty.’ ”
Similarly favorable reports continue to appear almost
daily, as on-the-scene correspondents observe history’s most
successful handling of a defeated people.
America takes pride in the young men who are shaping
this all-important post-war era in the Far East. Soldiers of
the new Regular Army bring to their jobs the hope and vision
required for the maintenance of a fair and lasting peace.
They are equipping themselves for constructive citizenship
in a time when the need is great, the benefits far-reaching.
A number of famous Army divisions, now on occupation
duty in Japan and Korea, have opened their ranks to men en
listing for three years. For men who can measure up. it is a splen
did opportunity to take part in a vital peacetime assignment.
Details are available at all U. S. Army Recruiting Stations.
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