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Without pursuit planes, there was not much for the defenders to do about it except to keep the raiders high. From their foxholes on the mainland, infantry soldiers kept patrols out in no man's land to be sure that "Tojo" was keeping quiet. Probably in search of prisoners and information, a U.S. force plowed into the Jap lines, and "Skinny" Wainwright was able to report a successful brush...
Last week Japan's Premier Hideki Tojo gave the best possible indication that the Japs would rather leave Australia alone. Said he in Tokyo: "The Australians themselves must be fully aware of the fact that it is utterly impossible for Australia . . . to defend herself against the might of our invincible forces." Therefore, said General Tojo, let the Australians be sensible and perceive that Japan is their best friend...
...Yamashita graduated from the Staff College in Tokyo. Two of his classmates were Hideki Tojo, now Japan's Premier, and Hoshira Oshima, now Japan's Ambassador to Berlin. Tojo, Yamashita and Oshima at once threw themselves into the Young Officers' clique, a fiercely burning furnace of Japanese militarism. As long as World War I lasted, these young faggots burned with a single flame: they were hot for Japan to take advantage of the war and move in on China...
...Suggested that Premier Tojo come to Washington...
Believing that a distinction should be made between the guilty leaders, the "Tojo and Hitler gangs," and the common people of Germany and Japan, Professor Mather hopes that ultimately all peoples in all lands will have a voice in world policy, just as each of the states in the United States has a voice in the control of the Federal Government. "This, however, is an ultimate objective, which cannot be realized for many years to come," he said...