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Premier Hideki Tojo shuffled his Cabinet last week and gave Japan a new Foreign Minister: wooden-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu...
Last week Japan's Premier Hideki Tojo exhibited his Chinese puppet government to Axis diplomats. In Nanking, Tojo ordered 35 mosquito boats to fire a 21-gun salute. Japanese and puppet Chinese troops paraded on the third anniversary of Traitor Wang Ching-wei's Nanking regime...
...world, Tojo was signaling the fact that island Japan had become a continental power. The Japanese had begun to withdraw some of their own troops from China, replace them with thousands of Chinese, sometimes under Japanese officers, often under Chinese officers from Manchukuo. The Nanking government is now allowed to handle economic exploitation of Occupied China and the squeeze is as merciless as when it was applied by Japan. Nanking, pleased, declared war on Britain and the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week Tokyo relinquished some of its extraterritorial concessions, nominally placed them in Chinese hands...
Bowing to Tojo and his Army & Navy colleagues, who are now unassailably entrenched in the Government, the Diet meekly passed four bills which strengthened the military strangle hold...
...special ordinance gave Tojo the authority to take over the duties of any Cabinet Minister dealing with questions of "labor, materials, motive power and capital." Tojo appointed three new administrative and economic boards, saved the face of formerly powerful Japanese industrialists by making them advisers...