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To: Pelham; enumerated; bert; wardaddy; RandFan; Gaffer
It didn’t include Japan.

Okay, Japan was not part of the Marshall Plan, but we did at least as much for Japan, as we did for Germany. We even forced them to make abortion legal in 1947.

But at least Japan did not start immediately hating us.

233 posted on 04/30/2024 7:15:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“Okay, Japan was not part of the Marshall Plan, but we did at least as much for Japan, as we did for Germany.”

We did nothing like that.

MacArthur instituted major economic, political and social reforms in postwar Japan but there was no economic largesse like the Marshall Plan. The only boost that they got from us came in 1950-53 when we used Japan as a base for the Korean War.

You can read about it here:

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/japan-reconstruction


235 posted on 04/30/2024 7:44:37 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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