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Okinawa: Orphan of Conquest
Mears, Helen | November 3, 1956 issue

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The article describes about the efforts made by the U.S. to get hold on Okinawa Island of Japan. This Island was under U.S. possession and acting as a military base for eleven years. U.S. signed the Japanese peace sign treaty. The United States took Okinawa as a wartime operation. U.S. military leaders saw the usefulness of Okinawa as a major base not only to police Japan, but to police China and the USSR. American determination to hold Okinawa was increased by Chiang Kai-shek's steady loss of power on the mainland. Pressure from U.S. Congress, the military and the press, as well as the partisan pressure of Republicans who saw the rise of Communist power in China.

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MILITARY bases; PEACE treaties; COMMAND of troops; UNITED States. Congress; COMMUNISM; OKINAWA Island (Japan); JAPAN; UNITED States
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