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Last week a wiser world searched the published proceedings of the 82nd Extraordinary Session for hints of military lunges to come. If Premier Hideki Tojo had plans for a Russian Pearl Harbor, the warning was drowned in the clatter of his windy generalities. Never had a Diet session commanded the airtime that Radio Tokyo devoted to this one. Yet never had there seemed less reason for calling the mummers to enact their pantomime. Said Tojo...
This session had been called, the Tokyo radio explained, to approve Premier Hideki Tojo's plans for "total national mobilization" and "drastic increase in fighting strength." In a totalitarian nation organized to the last rice grain and the newest village baby, what could that mean...
...Premier Hideki Tojo shuffled his Cabinet last week and gave Japan a new Foreign Minister: wooden-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu...
...Solidarity. The national slogan of Japan, proclaimed last year, at the time of the first Solomons battle, is "A Hundred Year War." The Japanese people unquestioningly accept this prospect of incessant struggle to hold what they have won. They are solidly behind the Emperor and Premier Hideki Tojo, a strong, able and extremely popular man who is a powerful symbol of Japanese unity. Within the country, there is no opposition worthy of the name: the Allies must rely solely on their military power to crush the military power of Japan...
Last week Japan's Premier Hideki Tojo exhibited his Chinese puppet government to Axis diplomats. In Nanking, Tojo ordered 35 mosquito boats to fire a 21-gun salute. Japanese and puppet Chinese troops paraded on the third anniversary of Traitor Wang Ching-wei's Nanking regime...