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...this lull fooled no one, especially the Japanese. Premier Hideki Tojo last week praised the Japanese for producing "undreamed-of" quantities of ships and airplanes, then warned them that the British and Americans were becoming impatient "to end' the war in a short time." Said he: "The time to decide the destiny of our empire has come...
...Rise or Fall." Premier General Hideki Tojo (also boss of Japan's Army) told his Cabinet last week: "The Empire is literally standing at the crossroads of a rise or fall...
...came: as Army Staff Chief, Premier General Hideki ("Razor") To jo, a keen smalltime politician, a crack police expert, concurrently serving also as Minister for War, Munitions, Education; as Navy boss, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, Navy Minister and oldtime administrative wheel horse. General Jun Ushiroku, Tojo's military-academy classmate, went up to serve as the Army Staff's Vice Chief...
Fortnight ago, Premier General Hideki Tojo told his nation that "there is only a hair's breadth between victory and defeat," warned that Japan must pay a high price for victory: a national service law, all-out production of ships and planes, increased taxes, spiritual mobilization on the frenzied Yamato pattern exhibited at Tarawa, Makin, Attu...
...squirming little Japanese parliamentarian had brooded ever since the Cairo Conference; Germany and Japan should confer, he thought, and draft their joint war-peace plans. Last week in the Diet he popped the question to Premier General Hideki Tojo (see p. 28). Replied Tojo: such a conference would be "devoid of benefit"; Axis relations are "clear, united and warm...