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...came, and with it the intoxication of initial victory. But soon the hangover followed. Last week, in the Diet, Nakano heard the Emperor's message: The situation is "truly grave." Later, he heard Premier Hideki Tojo admit that the U.S., defeated at the beginning, was now "overcoming many difficulties and dangers, and the war is growing in intensity." Nakano also knew what most men-in-the-street could barely guess: Japan had suffered reverses in the South Pacific (see col. 2); Mussolini had become a shabby puppet; Hitler...
Since Pearl Harbor no high U.S. official has attacked the Mikado. Tojo and the warlords-never Hirohito-are the targets of attack...
...call an extraordinary session of the Diet on Oct. 25, to rubber-stamp all changes planned by Tojo...
...Behind Tojo's changes was an old & bitter tug of war between the Army and Big Business for the control of heavy industry. Japan's great holding families, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, did not oppose war; they opposed Army dominance of the economy. Under the Army's guidance, the new Ministry will now divert more yen, men and materials into the manufacture of weapons, at the expense of the little man's wardrobe and dinner bowl. Especial care, Tojo has indicated, will be lavished upon the aircraft industry...
...presidents of the imperial universities have been summoned to Tokyo to explain why Japan's inventors have not kept up with the U.S. and British scientists. Said Tojo to the luckless educators: "A change in attitude . . . should be made. [You must] comply with these demands of the nation...