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Then fortnight ago in San Francisco, California's earnest young Representative Will Rogers Jr., junketing on a lecture tour, gave currency to a proposal often discussed among experts on the Far East. Said Will Rogers: perhaps the Mikado would be an ideal U.S. puppet in Japan. The idea had been proposed by a British diplomat, he said. Congressman Rogers carefully did not endorse or condemn the plan; he merely offered it for his listeners' "consideration...
Franklin Roosevelt lay abed, battling the grippe. But the new Jap puppet Government in the Philippines (TIME, Oct. 25) raised his temperature higher than the grippe's mild fever. Said he: "A hypocritical appeal for American sympathy. . . . Fraud and deceit . . . designed to confuse and mislead the Filipino people...
...Japs had established a Philippine totalitarian party, the Kalibapi. They had collected some unquestionably loyal quislings, headed by Puppet President José P. Laurel, a former Philippine Supreme Court Justice. At his inaugural last week, a 21-gun salute rattled over the capital...
...Northern Italy, Puppet Premier Mussolini's "official" radio blamed Italian newsmen for the fall of Fascism: "The poisonous atmosphere of general suspicion that made possible the treachery of [Premier Pietro] Badoglio and the triumph of defeatism . . . was largely due to shortcomings in the field of . . . journalism...
...less essential occupations women will replace men. > All Government agencies, factories and schools which can be moved will be shifted from the cities into the countryside. > The output of munitions, and especially aircraft, must be increased. > Self-sufficiency in food will be sought for Japan and the puppet state of Manchukuo. (Tokyo radio said earlier: "If shortage of rice gets to the point of famine, shipping space could be made available for the transportation of rice from the South...