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Fortnight ago a bald little Japanese general nicknamed The Razor became Premier of Japan. Hideki Tojo's* sparse mustache looks as if it might blow off in a stiff breeze and his tortoise-shell spectacles have a slightly cockeyed, precarious perch on his nose. Nevertheless the world press shuddered with apprehension that The Razor might be the raging snickersnee that the Japanese Army had been crying for, that Japan's months of indecision would now be resolved by mad swipes at Siberia, at Singapore, or at both...
Immediately Hideki Tojo's Government began to sound less like the whipping of blades than the familiar syllable-scrambling of Japanese evasionists...
With the ritual mock modesty of all incoming Japanese Premiers, Hideki Tojo declared: "I am awed with trepidation at my limited ability." But his subsequent actions made it sound as if he really meant it. His supposedly brash, testy Army Government proposed to continue conversations with Washington looking toward "peace with justice." The Government-controlled Japan Times and Advertiser sent up a gaseous trial balloon offering all the warring nations a "last chance" to have Japan mediate World War II. Most startling of all, Premier Tojo's ostensibly fire-eating Army Government called for an extraordinary session...
...Count Keigo Kiyoura came from his sickbed, entering the Palace in a wheel chair, attended by a nurse, bringing with him an oxygen inhalator. In less than four hours the choice was made: a general, the son of a general, would be Premier. War Minister Lieut. General Eiki Tojo, a man of strong will and a friend of the Axis, was to head the nation. General Tojo hurried to the Emperor's presence and, leaving it, announced: "I have received an Imperial Command to form a new Cabinet and am overwhelmed with...
...Cabinet. Within 36 hours General Tojo had brought his choices through the grey fog to the palace, presented them to the Emperor. Then he went to report his assumption of office to the Sun Goddess at the Grand Shrine...