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...Manhattan's Sunday Journal-American last week, Sports Editor Max Kase broke an exclusive story: "Another basketball scandal [is] on the verge of being blown wide open." Kase added that eight to ten men were being questioned, at least four of them "players from two outstanding Greater New York City teams." A few hours later, District Attorney Frank Hogan confirmed Kase's beat: he announced the arrest of players of the College of the City of New York and, later, of Long Island University (see SPORT...
...Kase knew what he was talking about; he was the man who told the D.A. about it in the first place. Kase, 53, a veteran newsman, and sports editor of the Journal for 13 years, had suspected for a long time that Madison Square Garden basketball games were fixed to come out right for the gamblers. A few months ago, he began dropping in casually on gambling joints and sports hangouts, asking discreet questions and listening. With a few facts to justify his suspicions, Kase also turned his reporters loose on the job of trying to discover...
Most of Japan's statesmen turn up in Author Kase's book carrying olive branches. Although " Prime Minister Konoye's government brought Japan into the Axis, sanctioned the July 1941 invasion of French Indo-China, and went along with the supreme command's proposal, two months later, to declare war on the U.S., "nothing . . . was further removed from Konoye's mind than to engage upon war with the British Empire or the United States." Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, who signed the Japanese surrender, was "a man of confirmed liberal views, consistently opposed to any policy...
...weeks later, General MacArthur was facing the Japanese surrender delegation (including Author Kase) on the Missouri. His speech calling for a world dedicated to "freedom, tolerance and justice" left Kase "thrilled beyond words, spellbound, thunderstruck. For the living heroes and dead martyrs of the war this speech was a wreath of undying flowers...
...Author Kase's report on the ceremony for the Emperor, he "raised the question whether it would have been possible for us, had we been victorious, to embrace the vanquished with a similar magnanimity. Clearly, it would have been different ... Indeed, an incalculable ideological distance separates America from Japan. After all, we were not beaten on the battlefields by dint of superior arms. We were defeated by a nobler ideal...