Word: minami
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's aged (77) Premier Kantaro Suzuki shuffled through a round of desperate political activity. One day he sat through a five-hour emergency session of his Cabinet. The same day he talked long and earnestly with flinty General Jiro Minami, boss of the ultra-totalitarian Political Association of Great Japan. Then he doddered on across the moat of the partly burned Palace to bow low before Emperor Hirohito and make a respectful report. At the Meiji and Yasakuni shrines he prayed for the destruction of his country's enemies. Finally, with the Emperor looking on, he stood...
...Tokyo radio crackled out: "Many enemy planes raided Minami Tori shima† at dawn today." With amazing promptness the U.S. Navy verified Tokyo's announcement, but added: "No report has been received from the raiding force and it is presumed that there will be none until need for radio silence ceases to exist." Except for a second broadcast from Tokyo that 90 "Grumman fighters" and "about 60 carrier bombers" and two carriers had taken part in the assault, the silence was still unbroken at week's end. The attack could have had one or a number of objectives...