Word: masakazu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kawabe's Counter. With an estimated three to six divisions operating in four columns, Lieut. General Masakazu Kawabe two weeks ago descended on Imphal...
...Burma, the Japs last week gave "independence." The gift came all tied up in pretty strings and boxed "within the framework of Japan's co-prosperity sphere": Lieut. General Masakazu Ka-wabe, Commander in Chief of Japanese forces in Burma, abolished his military administration; members of the "Burma Independence Preparatory Committee," established by the Japs six weeks earlier, were called to a meeting; the Committee quickly named itself a "National Assembly," and appointed wily, womanish Dr. Ba Maw Premier of Burma. It only remained for Ba Maw to sign a treaty of alliance pledging Burma to military, political...