Word: tojo
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...Philippines, China, and Japan. The last is the most inexcusable; for there we started clean, have a growing democratic consciousness to work with, and are muffing the opportunity. In common opposition to Russia, Mr. Atcheson is now lined up with the same Japanese who lined up with Tojo five years age this morning...
Roxas refused, pleading ill health. Premier Tojo gave a dinner for him, and repeated the puppet proposition just before the meat course. Roxas explained about his health. Tojo sent three physicians to look him over. They found him in bed, weak, wan and sweating (Roxas, warned of their approach, had just been given a fever injection and had run up & down stairs). They diagnosed his trouble as hypertension...
...Keenan was pushing a sober trial of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." But Prosecutor Kee nan (who looks like W. C. Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with an American stenographer. Hiroshi Oshima, wartime ambassador to Germany, affected the dandy, with white pocket handkerchief, smart bow tie and black-ribboned pince...
Shumei Okawa, onetime Manchurian railway official, carried comic indifference into broad buffoonery. He-interrupted proceedings by opening his crumpled shirt and rubbing his scrawny chest. Although a U.S. lieutenant colonel was assigned to watch him, Okawa slyly outwitted him, twice darted from his chair to smack startled Tojo's gleaming pate. Let out of court for a sanity test, he babbled in high-pitched English: "I don't like the U.S.; America is democrazy...
...eighteen years long-haired, bespectacled vaudevillian Ichimatsu Ishida has been convulsing the Japs with his sharp, satirical songs on the contemporary scene. A score of times his tuneful wit (needling Tojo for wordy communiques, the Zaibatsu for war profiteering in Manchuria, etc.) has landed him in jail. Last month it Landed him in Japan's new Diet, as the head of his own one-candidate Japan Fair Argument Party. Last week a song got him in trouble again...