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...unexpected shake-up of the Army High Command, Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki was removed as Chief of the General Staff of the Japanese forces in China, promoted to the rank of general and sent to command the Japanese forces in Korea. Mummy-faced General Itagaki ("I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve") is the idol of the younger, Fascist-minded Army faction, is credited with originating the North China buffer state plan, which he carried out in Manchukuo. An attempt to carve another buffer state out of the Maritime Province of Siberia might well begin with...
...biggest battle of the War in China so far this year has proved that General Itagaki's dream is a pipe dream unless the Japanese are willing to put many more men into the field. The Japanese, attempting to drive south across the Yellow River, succeeded in splitting the Chinese front in two above the river, and in establishing ferry heads on the river itself...
...week came reports which were shockingly new, inescapably true. For seven days on end the Japanese were consistent. First, they rearranged their continental high command. Supreme command of forces in China was given to one of the Army's best strategists, Toshizo Nishio. Recently resigned War Minister Seishiro Itagaki was made Lieut. General Nishio's Chief of Staff. Command of the Kwantung Army, the able if imaginative force which since May 11 had been making the barren plains of Manchukuo a bramble of practically uncountable wrecked Russian planes, was given to one of the Army's best...
...Heads. The Japanese units tangling with the Mongols last week are attached to the famed fire-eating Kwantung Army, the 350,000 crack troops garrisoned in Manchukuo. The "Kwantung clique," headed by War Minister General Seishiro Itagaki and the radical young officers of the Kwantung Army, is a law unto itself. In 1931, when it decided Manchuria was ripe for plucking, it manufactured the "Mukden Incident" and marched in from Korea, much to the surprise of the Tokyo Government. In Manchukuo it runs the whole show, bossing the Government of Emperor Kang Teh (Henry Pu Yi) and owning or controlling...
Whose War? One year later, General Seishiro Itagaki, arch extremist of the Japanese army, who had become Minister of War, could have claimed that the Japanese had for all practical purposes won their war: they had bitten off the five northern provinces as planned. But the Japanese had found that they were not fighting their war. They were fighting Chiang's war and they had still...