From: pallison49@gmail.com   
      
   Ralph Mowery wrote:   
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   >   
   > > Didn't grow up in the '50s, did you? The Chinese can and do make high   
   > > quality products as well as cheap junk.   
   > >   
   > I think Japan started putting out quality products to ship to the US   
   > when they ran out of all the American beer cans the GIs left over there   
   > from WW-2.   
   >   
      
   **  There were no beer drinking GIs in Japan during WW2.   
      
   Only starving prisoners ( mostly airman)  who were treated abominably.   
   Some were subjected to horrific operations with no anesthetics - just for fun.   
      
   After the surrender, US occupying forces were ordered to treat Japanese well   
   and never eat their scarce food.   
   Local officials, like town mayors, were reinstated and treated with respect.   
      
   Losing the war to US and their British and Australian allies was the best   
   thing that ever happened to Japan.   
      
      
      
      
   .....    Phil   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)