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...Half the earth away, in the other Axis citadel of Japan, the strain of defeat and disappointment broke wide open in the fall of Premier Hideki Tojo's war Cabinet (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...been named to the soft berth of commandant, Yokosuka Naval Station. But soon General Tojo called upon him to take the Navy Ministry in the new War Cabinet. "The right man in the right place," said a s uperannuated Taisho (admiral...
...Tojo boasted: "During the last two years Japan has brought her fighting strength to such a level that she is now ready to make use of the earliest opportunity to deal the enemy troops a decisive blow and frustrate all enemy efforts." Tokyo commentators added: "The day for a large-scale Japanese campaign is drawing close." As Tojo well knew, he was talking through his hat: he had about as much chance of deciding when the big events would come as Hitler had of deciding D-day in western Europe. He could only guess where the next big blow would...
...carrier raids go nowadays: less than 100 planes, hardly one Essex-class complement. But there were promising factors: 1) for the first time Naval forces from the Mountbatten, Nimitz and MacArthur commands joined together; 2) Javanese, who have been wooed incessantly by Japanese propaganda, might begin to doubt that Tojo's forces were as all-powerful as he claimed; 3) surprisingly few Jap planes rose in defense; two of these were shot down, 19 others were destroyed on the ground; at least one ship in Surabaya harbor blew...
...this lull fooled no one, especially the Japanese. Premier Hideki Tojo last week praised the Japanese for producing "undreamed-of" quantities of ships and airplanes, then warned them that the British and Americans were becoming impatient "to end' the war in a short time." Said he: "The time to decide the destiny of our empire has come...