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Pearl Harbor Days. In Manchuria, Kishi found himself among friends and relatives. His uncle ran the Manchurian railways; Kishi brought over Steelmaker Aikawa to take charge of factory construction, and became closely connected with General Hideki Tojo, commander of the Kwantung army. Returning to Japan in 1939, Kishi could say complacently: "Manchurian industry is my development. I have an infinite affection for this industrial world I have created." Today, Kishi's lost "creation" provides arms and economic muscle for Red China...
...Prime Ministers were assassinated by nationalist gunmen, and other top officials killed and wounded. The government struck back by executing 13 army officers for conspiracy, and sending Kishi's discarded hero, Kita Ikki, to a firing squad. But victory went to the militarists. Ignoring orders from Tokyo, the Kwantung army occupied all of Manchuria. By 1937, when full-scale hostilities with China broke out, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet could only be appointed with the approval of the army...
...welcome," promised the governor of Kwantung Province. "Even those who have been spies are not excluded, so long as they don't carry out their activities this time." By last week, as the fair drew to a close, some 20,000 had jumped at the offer...
...reactionary armed force [guerillas] some 140,000 or 150,000 strong, apparently well-trained and well-organized." was operating in the hilly East River area of Kwantung province (East Kwantung Peasant Daily...
...More than 40" members of the anti-Red "Youth Vanguard Society" in southern Kwantung and Hunan provinces were arrested and accused of operating in at least six cities (Peking People's Daily, April...