Word: fleisher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the news out of Tokyo was hot, and the censors, who had meantime permitted him to do his own telephoning once more, caught up with Wilfrid Fleisher in the middle of a revealing sentence...
...down on records, but were never quite quick enough to catch him in the act of spilling beans. Finally they told him: "So sorry. Weather no longer suitable for Japan-America transoceanic telephoning." When he complained, even the Foreign Office said it could not improve the weather. So Wilfrid Fleisher cabled the Tribune to telephone him from Manhattan each day. America-Japan weather seemed fine, and for a while, he says, the new system had the censor completely baffled...
Premier Abe nervously hurried around to talk with the Emperor and the Grand Keeper of the Imperial Seals. Afterwards Wilfrid Fleisher reported: "The Cabinet apparently has decided to carry on. ... [but] it is believed that the days of the Government are numbered and its downfall is looked for before the Diet reconvenes...
When Wilfrid Fleisher began talking about the future, the censors pricked up their ears: "There has been no speculation in the press so far," he said, "regarding the personnel of a new Cabinet, but the name of Prince Fumimaro Konoye-" Snip! The conversation was cut off. But, as usual, Wilfrid Fleisher's dope...
Correspondent Fleisher has been wrong before, but Prince Konoye is a good bet to pick up where the aimless Abe Government leaves off. Premier from 1937 to 1939, he is now the most popular statesman in Japan and probably the only Japanese with enough astuteness and courage to play Mussolini to Hirohito's Vittorio Emanuele. It was he who invented the famous, mystical but so far meaningless slogan: New Order in East Asia. He may find accomplishing it not only New but Large...