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Into booming, industrial São Paulo poured Japs by the hundred. Members of Brazil's huge (260,000) Japanese colony, they had sold their rice paddies and cotton fields, had come to the city to celebrate the triumphant arrival of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. Henchmen of mysterious, begoggled...
Brazilian G-men got suspicious. So did some of the Japs, when the Imperial Fleet failed to show up. Their joint conclusion: Sugai and henchmen were not patriots, but racketeers who had been inducing a banzai fervor in Jap planters, then buying up their landholdings for a song.
The Dutch stood by their 1942 pledge of self-government for the Indies in a new Netherlands Commonwealth, but they boggled at dealing with Soekarno, began shipping troops from Holland to the island battlefield. British troops, holding the imperial fort until sufficient Dutch forces arrived, were caught in the middle...
In a six-page memorandum to the Imperial Government, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur last week decreed revolution. He demanded full civil liberties, release of political prisoners, abolishment of all totalitarian powers and dismissal of the Minister of Home Affairs, who had persistently abused these powers. There was to...
When the job was finished, there would be nothing dingy about the seat of Soviet Government; even the hundreds of murals and icons in the Kremlin's many churches would be restored. Strolling through the Great Palace, where Generalissimo Stalin directed the war from his four-room flat, the...