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...Casey, who since 1920 has held every enlisted and commissioned army grade from private to field officer. Originally an ack-ack man in the Massachusetts National Guard Coast Artillery, with which he entered Federal service as a battery commander in September, 1940, he has served at Deer Island, Ft. Standish, Ft. Banks, Fortress Monroe, and half a dozen other stations on the Atlantic seaboard. An alumnus of both the Coast Artillery School and of the Adjutant General's School, he was one of the first National Guard officers to be transferred from a combat arm to the Adjutant General...
...THREE BAMBOOS-Robert Standish-Macmillan...
...Robert Standish" is a pseudonym for an Englishman about whom the publishers say they know nothing. The Three Bamboos is a novelized version of the history of Japan's famed House of Mitsui (Japanese for "The Three Wells"). It pictures that family as a succession of brilliant, cruel and profoundly devious fanatics, a power in Japan, dedicated for 50 years to a gamble for world conquest...
...Standish's House of Fureno begins to rise through the prodigious exertions of Tenjo Fureno, sent by his samurai father to learn the secrets of the Western powers. In no time at all, Tenjo pumps an English missionary and a Scottish banker of everything they know, shocks the living daylights out of the missionary by unChristian, erotic behavior, hoodwinks a London shipping magnate, absorbs the lesson that finance and industry must be the sword of the new samurai. Small Tenjo also satisfies his hatred of white men-subtly by conquering a blonde and violently by beating...
...code of Bushido Standish describes as a synthetic article, manufactured by the Furenos and friends to reconcile the old samurai code of honor with the dishonorable course they think Japan must pursue. Anything goes in Bushido. After the old generations of simple-minded warriors are dead, no one but the long-suffering Japanese women remain to oppose the treachery by which the brandy-bibbing, geisha-gluttonous Fureno circle plots to overwhelm Asia and fight it out with America...