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When Tokyo last week told of the resignation of Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo (not to be confused with Premier Hideki Tojo), many dopesters thought that Japan's long-feared attack on Siberia would shortly begin. In 1938 and 1939 Shigenori Togo was Ambassador to Russia, where he was said to have helped plan the Russo-Japanese Non-Aggression Pact. Rumor said that Jap etiquette required that he resign before Japan broke its pact...
Papers throughout the U.S. featured his "secret report" that a young Korean patriot had shot and slightly wounded Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo on June 17. The would-be assassin's second shot went wild, but seriously wounded onetime Premier Koki Hirota. As Tojo was carried to the hospital with a wound "under the left armpit," the patriot, whose name was Park Soowon, was shot full of holes by Japanese police, who in the process brought down the Japanese ace, Major Yuzo Fujita, and two Japanese photographers. Tokyo police succeeded in rounding up go-odd members of a Korean terrorist...
...indiscreetly heavy hand upon the princes of money, Itagaki soothed the offended financiers without in the least surrendering the army's supremacy. And, all the while, Itagaki and Nishio managed to extend their grips upon the sources and tendrils of army power. Today the Premier, General Hideki Tojo, is commonly supposed to be their...
Last week The Razor spoke more sharply. To the League for Support of the Throne, Tojo reported that Aleutian occupations had "greatly strengthened Japan's position." "Japan," he said, "is determined to destroy the United States and Britain...
Last October when the army made him Premier, garrulous General Hideki Tojo said: "I am awed with trepidation at my limited ability." It was a mild speech for The Razor, whose voice had long cried...