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Since Pearl Harbor no high U.S. official has attacked the Mikado. Tojo and the warlords-never Hirohito-are the targets of attack...
Night Work. In San Diego, George A. Scott stopped to peer into an air-raid shelter on his way home from a costume party. Neighbors who saw him, dressed as The Mikado's Lord High Executioner, quickly called police. Near Camp Edwards, Mass., Private John J. Czeike pitched his tent at night, woke the next morning to discover that he had slept with a skunk in a bed of poison...
...blind obedience to their Emperor, the Japanese are seen in prayer before Shinto shrines. A U.S. flyer is executed by a firing squad while the radio yelps that the Mikado's cities have been "treacherously and inhumanly" bombed. Tiny children in uniform are shown being trained to fight. Tokyo, its streets a blaze of light, is obviously sneering at blackouts. Jap propaganda films "prove" that only force pays, that by its victories the nation already possesses sufficient rubber, timber and other raw materials to carry on a war that will wear out the rest of the world...
...Mikado's factories have fallen far behind in the battle of production. They lack precision tools, raw materials, labor-and Jap labor is not getting enough food...
...exerted through puppets. The shadow regime of Henry Pu Yi set Manchurian Chinese apart from their southern countrymen. Similarly the regime of suave Wang Ching-wei, Japan's No. 1 puppet since March 1940, was designed to wean Chinese from allegiance to Chiang Kaishek. For three years the Mikado's generals stupidly sought to give Traitor Wang "face" without a pretense of authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking." Now the Jap has turned to a policy of blandishment. On paper he has granted Nanking breathtaking political and economic concessions, such as the nominal...