>On Mon Jul 03 2000, Brad DeLong wrote
>
> > If my precis is not what you meant to say
>
>If I may be allowed to intervene in the interests of civility, I believe
>Tim's strong claim is that US actions in Japan post-47 made the country
>less democratic then it was at that time trending to be. His second claim
>is that this was not necessary to the the economic growth that ensued --
>we acted differently in Germany, for example, and they boomed just fine.
I don't think Tim's making a claim that "we acted differently in Germany, and they boomed just fine." The US policy in Europe regarding Reds was the same as its policy in Japan; also, just as few militarists were executed or purged permanently from public life in Japan, few National Socialists suffered in West Germany after the war.
Yoshie