How business, doctors and journalists prey on your food anxieties I
How business, doctors and journalists prey on your food anxieties I
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World War II<br />
U,S . arfi`lery, 1938<br />
While Germany was creating panzer divisi<strong>on</strong>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> powerful howitzers, the U .S. Army still had horse-drawn cann<strong>on</strong> .<br />
The Nazi Holocaust against the<br />
Jews has left its indelible mark of<br />
infamy in the hist<strong>on</strong>books, but other<br />
mass atrocities against other people,<br />
both by the Nazis <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> especially by<br />
the Japanese, ha%e tended<br />
to fade from memory . Japan<br />
has never publicly acknowledgcd<br />
to irs own people,<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> exhausted, but lighting for their ment . They bought time, not <strong>on</strong>ly for<br />
homel<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>, shot do«n enough enemv Britain, but also for an almost totally<br />
planes to keep Britain ali °e <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> to disarmed United States to begin to<br />
force postp<strong>on</strong>ement of the Nazi inva- build its military forces .<br />
si<strong>on</strong> that was expected at any mo- On the ground, the high price of<br />
prewar pacifist rhetoric <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
'_ policies c<strong>on</strong>tinued to be<br />
paid with the blood <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
lives of British <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Ameri-<br />
or to the world, the<br />
can ;ighting men, fighting<br />
atrocities it committed all<br />
overAsia, as post-Nazi German}'<br />
did in the y,ears folfosring<br />
the end of World<br />
War II . This war was not<br />
just another war . The Nazis,<br />
with the Japanese not<br />
far behind them, made it "a<br />
revoluti<strong>on</strong> aeainst the moral<br />
basis of civilizati<strong>on</strong>" <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
a "re%oluti<strong>on</strong> against the<br />
human soul," as Ti.ne mag<br />
azinc put it .<br />
A thous<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> voung men<br />
in their fighter planes over<br />
Engl<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>, outnumbered<br />
Ki-,g _eopold III of Belglum<br />
Hoping to placate Hitler, he refused staff talks with the Allies .<br />
gallant but losing battles<br />
around the N%orld against<br />
better armed, better<br />
equipped <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> batde-hardened<br />
German <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Japanese<br />
military forces . Japan's<br />
modern naw <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> wellarmed<br />
troops swept down<br />
across Southeast Asia with a<br />
speed reminiscent of the<br />
Nazi blitzkreig in Europe<br />
Filipinos, Malays, Ind<strong>on</strong>esians<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> other Southeast<br />
Asians fell victim to Japanese<br />
c<strong>on</strong>quest <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> atrocities,<br />
~rhich rivaled those of<br />
126 Forbcs 0 dugust 14, 1995<br />
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