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...paper salvos, at the rate of 500,000 to 1,000,000 leaflets daily. Principal target of these broadsides is the gumbatsu, the military clique which rules the empire: ". . . our bombers will return . . . many times, as long as your militarists continue this war." A small leaflet like a 10-yen note bears on the reverse: "The gumbatsu is wasting your tax money. For this war the gumbatsu has spent the equivalent of 5,000 yen for every Japanese. Think what you could have done with that...
...Yen-yū islands block the stream...
...some of the helmets in a Vancouver store. He bought one, spread the news around. In two hours, the store's stock of helmets was gone. WAC saw the light. Last week every one of WAC's helmets had been peddled-to small fry with a yen for playing Commando. So. had 47,000 dummy wooden rifles, originally designed for training purposes. WAC said it could have sold thousands more...
Riding into the city in Mao's car, Pat Hurley unlimbered some of his best anecdotes. Colonel Barrett translated with idiomatic gusto. As the car forded the shallow Yen River, General Hurley cracked: "It reminds me of my old home in Oklahoma. There you could tell when a school of fish was swimming upriver by the cloud of dust it raised...
...incomprehensible devotion to self-destruction Japanese military fanatics are building up to a super-Wagnerian climax which might result, if carried to its mad extreme, in the virtual annihilation-self-inflicted or imposed-of one of the nations of mankind. Recent suicides (military and civilian) indicate that the Jap yen for suicide is due less to fear of torture and imprisonment by U.S. captors than to a belief that somehow each death provides "a shield for the Emperor" and "contributes to the inevitable victory...