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...Manchukuo (the three provinces of Manchuria with Jehol added) was the well-trained Kwantung Army*(see THE WAR). Its known 900,000 (600,000 Japs and 300,000 puppet troops) had probably been increased to 1,000,000 by recent arrivals from China proper. Allied statesmen had long feared that the Kwantung Army would fight on, even after the home islands were conquered, had hoped that direct orders from the Emperor would persuade it to lay down its arms...
...Refused." The witness concluded: the Marshal, and by implication he himself, had played the double game in North Africa. They had secretly ordered help for the Allies, but publicly they had sided with the Axis. And, added Laval, he had refused to help organize a puppet French government in Germany after the liberation of France...
...last choice, a two-year-old infant, is now Henry Pu Yi, Emperor of Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo...
Splitting and redoubling its complications with the speed of a Stakhanovite amoeba, neat and artificial as a nest of concentric Chinese boxes, this hypersymmetrical rake's progress is as stylized in its performance as in its structure. It is more like a puppet show than a flesh & blood comedy, and its dialogue is in dialect as formal as the colloquy of Mandarins. The puppets often strike tableaux which have charm, irony and even beauty, of a kind. But it is a kind so rigid and remote from simple human warmth that honest laughs come few & far between...
...Premier and his ministers now held only shadow authority. And the Emperor seemed to be completely in the hands of the war lords. For the war lords hold the three key posts at court: Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (Marquis Kido, military puppet); Grand Chamberlain to the Emperor (Admiral Hisanori Fujita); and Imperial Household Minister (former Finance Minister Ishiwata, long a military stooge). They decide who is to have access to the Emperor, what he shall do, what documents he shall approve by affixing his seal...