Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vice Admiral Takejiro Onishi, who was apparently elevated for the suicide from vice chief to chief of the Navy general staff, left a note to the "spirits" of his Kamikaze corps: "With my death I desire to make atonement to the souls of ... you who fell gallantly as human bullets. ... I also have a message to the young men at large. . . . You are the treasure of the nation. Attend properly to your peacetime circumstances. . . . Maintaining steadfastly the spirit of the Special Attack Corps, do your utmost for the revival of the Japanese race...
...note was dispatched to the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, General Yasuji Okamura: "Cease hostilities immediately . . . send representatives to receive military instructions from General Ho Ying-chin, Chinese military chief of staff. . . . Japanese troops are temporarily permitted to retain their arms and equipment for the maintenance of public order...
...Editor's Note: Give 'em that old time religion...
...this note last week, General Motors' Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Research Chief Charles F. ("Boss") Kettering announced a $4.000.000 gift by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to establish a Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. It was the largest single private donation ever made for cancer study. It will help make Manhattan's Memorial Hospital the largest cancer research center and cancer hospital in the world...
...determined was Trollope to be considered a writing machine that he gave the readers of his Autobiography little chance to note the creative passion that made the machine run. And yet, the passion was paramount. "I have wandered alone," Trollope wrote, "among the rocks and woods, crying at (my characters') grief, laughing at their absurdities, and thoroughly enjoying their joy. ... I have lived with my characters. ... a gallery of them, and of all in that gallery I may say that I know the tone of the voice, and the color of the hair, every flame...