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...willing to die for his emperor rushed them with a blazing gun. This made our former copy boy mad. He charged and split the Jap's skull with his rifle butt...
...Hirohito: 'As Emperor and leader of traitorous and brutal Japan during the years of her foul attacks on peaceful peoples, your time is short.' "To Tojo: 'When you unleashed your cowardly attack on Dec. 7, you started something you can't finish.' "To Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Fleet, who predicted that he would make peace in the White House (see p. 60): 'You will be present at the peace if you are still alive. That peace will be in the White House, but the White House will not be as you en visaged...
...surprise to some. We picked him because during that year he had "carried his country up & up into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world." He was Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Elect of God, Light of the World and Conquering Lion of Judah. Man of 1936 was a Woman?Wallis Warfield Simpson, first to make a King of England swap his throne for a woman ? and 1937's choice was a couple: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...year, it turned out to be a good speculation. His armies conquered Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma. Never in history had one nation conquered so much so quickly. Seldom had any nation's fighting abilities been underestimated so badly. Tojo, or Emperor Hirohito, in whose name all Japanese wage holy war, might well have been the man of the year, if the explosive Japanese campaigns had not shown signs of burning...
...Eastern planning: a couple of good sound lickings would melt Japanese "nerves of steel," pinprick Japan's bubble empire. The annihilation of Japan would be unnecessary. The power of the military party broken, a Japanese republic could educate the people away from long-established habits of Emperor worship and blind obedience to war lords...