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Last week it was announced that the Tojo Government would ask the Diet to approve tax increases of 600,000,000-700,000,000 yen for the fiscal year. The Government proposed "to have the nation understand and cooperate with it through the Imperial Diet." By calling the Diet the Government assumed the responsibility of presenting the nation with a definite policy...
...Hideki Tojo was born in Iwate Prefecture 56 years ago, the son of Lieut. General Hidenori Tojo,* a leading strategist of the Russo-Japanese War. In 1905, when that war ended, Tojo the Younger was graduated from Tokyo's Imperial Military Academy. For 29 years his military career was unremarkable, but in 1934 Major General Tojo, as Chief of the Military Inquiry Department, achieved his first international press by committing a colossal gaff. He declared with strange clairvoyance: "The United States, Russia and China, knowing that Japan is likely to be confronted with various international difficulties in November...
...next year General Itagaki was salvaged from a "glorious" defeat in China and became War Minister. He called the faithful Tojo to be Vice Minister. In this office The Razor stropped himself so viciously on munitions capitalists whom his chiefs wanted given subtle handling that he was kicked upstairs to be Director General of Army Aviation Instruction. In 1939 he became Chief of the Air Force...
After France's fall, General Itagaki, then in China far from the political scene, got his man Tojo appointed War Minister in the Konoye Cabinet...
...high time for the Army to put up or shut up. Hideki Tojo was handy and willing. And so he stepped in among problems that had been baffling the Army for a long time...