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...closed in on Japan with a rapidity which, only a year ago, seemed inconceivable. Last week, as a great fleet of B-29s made the heaviest demolition attack on the Japanese heartland, Premier Kuniaki Koiso and his cronies (see FOREIGN NEWS) gibbered of invasion. Actually, Allied forces now have no base large enough, or close enough to Japan, to launch amphibious operations against the main islands. But they are moving ahead on an accelerated schedule, and this week, by Jap account, an amphibious force was off the Kerama Islands, within sight of Okinawa, within 400 miles of Kyushu. If confirmed...
Thus the twangy voice of Japan's Singing Frog, Premier General Kuniaki Koiso, croaked through the nightmare of bombs, flames, death and flight that engulfed his country. He did not exaggerate...
...measure of Japan's disrupted civilian life-and of its leaders' fanatical will to drive the nation on to victory or ruin-the Koiso Cabinet ordered all schools above the first grade to close. Henceforth all children above six must help to produce food and munitions, join in air defense and other activities "directly concerned with the prosecution...
...Premier Koiso graciously accepted a petition from the Diet's fretful representatives and peers; i.e., he agreed to a demand for an emergency , session to discuss the "extremely serious" war situation, promised a "detailed and clear report...
...other Premier in Japanese history had been able to stay in office through so many national disasters. But Koiso had stayed, perhaps because Japan did not want to acknowledge her serious plight before the world and because his ousting would have to be made to look like another "strengthening" of the Government. If Koiso fell, what successor would sound strengthening? The international grapevine mentioned two well-known names...