Phil in SF quoted Judgment at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, …
Soon after the Soviet prosecutors wrapped up their case in Tokyo, Averell Harriman, the aristocratic US ambassador in Moscow, scoffed, "It is difficult to believe that the Soviet General Staff and Politburo are lying awake nights worrying about recrudescence of [Japanese] imperialism and aggression."
— Judgment at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass (Page 912)
new word: recrudescence
the recurrence of an undesirable condition
[slur for Japanese people replaced in quotation]