Word: shadowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Across the triumphal homecoming of the Commander in Chief of Brazil's victorious Expeditionary Force fell the shadow of Brazil's worst naval disaster...
...India'. "I wish they did not remind me of cow dung." Britain was suspected of setting the Moslem League against the Hindus, slowly acquiring political maturity as the majority in the All-India National Congress. Against the caste Hindus she played the 40 million Untouchables, whose very shadow, to a high-caste Hindu, is defilement. Against both she played the panoplied, privileged world of the Indian princes and the martial nations of the Sikhs and Gurkhas...
...unprecedented mass of weapons for the kill. Vast areas of industrial Japan were in ruins from bombing. A more & more hermetic blockade from sea and air was closing in. In Okinawa the U.S. forces were only 325 miles from the home archipelago. From Siberia fell the lengthening shadow of Russia. Cried Premier Kantaro Suzuki: Japan's crisis "is the greatest since the Mongolian invasion...
Within a week, other secondary cities got the same treatment-Shizuoka, Toyohashi, Fukuoka, Kagamigahara. Small as they were (under 325,000 population), they contained valuable war plants, arsenals, little "shadow factories" dispersed in flimsy dwellings. In some cases one raid was considered enough to write off the productive capacity of a city. One such case was the great naval arsenal at Kure, last big plant of its type...