Word: nippon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Tokyo from a fortnight's flight through Greater East Asia, Premier Hideki Tojo last week announced that the entire Co-Prosperity Sphere "understands Nippon's true intentions and is concentrating full efforts to destroy the Anglo-American powers...
...Indian nationalist, Subhas Chandra Bose, addressed the nucleus of what he hopes will become an Indian "army of liberation." Said the ubiquitous Bose: "When France declared war on Germany, the cry on every German soldier's lips was 'On to Paris!' When the brave soldiers of Nippon set out in December 1941, the cry was: 'On to Singapore!' Comrades, let your cry be 'On to Delhi!'" Noting that India lacks an army of her own, Bose added: "George Washington had an army when he won freedom. Garibaldi had an army when he liberated...
...canned salmon heated on the exhaust manifold (food cost: 25? a day), pressed his trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office in Seattle and paid $195 for a round-trip ticket to Yokohama, tourist class...
Eyes Inward? The Extraordinary Diet might have been called because of a sagging home front. Though the national mobilization law of 1938 seemed to grant the Government all necessary power over the domestic economy, a lot of water has since flowed past Nippon's shores...
...Javanese natives, scorned, beaten, cooperated in some instances with the Japs. But most of them turned the Jap propaganda back on their bowlegged conquerors. They made up their own slogans, which they passed around by word of mouth. One sample: Asia Raya, Nippon Kaya, Asia Paya, which means: in "Greater Asia" Japan will be richer but the rest of Asia will live in misery. The confident Javanese natives had their own three "A"s: Awas Ada America, which means: "Beware, there is America." The Javanese are also biding their time...