Word: itagaki
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...advisers. After that, among many others, come the venerable, 89-year-old Prince Saionji, last of the Genro; jingoistic Baron Kuchiro Hiranuma, who as Premier has an earthquake-and-assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura, firms that control 62% of the total wealth of Japan (Mr. Gunther calls them "Men of Yen") ; Emperor Kang...
Next day War Minister Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki stood up before a Parliament which just a few hours before the explosion had been told to shoot the Japanese budget skyhigh, appropriating 4,600,000,000 yen (about $1,242,000,000) for war. Expensive as the accident had been, said General Itagaki, it would "not interfere in any way . . . with the sacred war in China." Neither did the mysterious fire in December which razed an aviation training station at Yonago (cost: 150,000 yen) ; or, later, the explosion and fire which wrecked an Army powder factory at Maebashi...
...with a traditional fair, suitably modified for a China at war. The most patronized concession: a "beat the Japanese" booth where patriotic Chinese could throw balls at caricatures of such Japanese worthies as Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, his predecessor, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Minister for War Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki and Minister for Foreign Affairs Hachiro Arita...
...Biggest Japanese businessmen, the Tokyo armament tycoons, met War Minister Seishiro Itagaki last week at the Military Club. There Lieut. General Eiki Tojo warned them that Britain, France and the Soviet Union will continue to give aid to Generalissimo Chiang, and that when Russia thinks Japan has become "exhausted"by the struggle, Tokyo may expect Moscow to roll an offensive down against Korea through Vladivostok. Snapped Lieut. General Tojo at the tycoons: "We are now faced with the necessity of preparing armaments adequate to defend Japan on two fronts at the same time...
...soldier's wife's first duty is to relieve her husband of all worries while he is fighting" continued General Itagaki, nailing with Oriental candor the issue of marital fidelity which arises in every war. He concluded: "We cannot tell how long it will take to restore peace because the operations must continue until General Chiang Kai-shek falls and his Communist co-supporters are ousted. Even if he said he had abandoned pro-Communistic and anti-Japanese policies we would mistrust that declaration while he retained any authority. He might change his mind again...