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...within the U.S., that Negro hopes of betterment depended upon Jap victory. All of them, according to an FBI spokesman, had lavish and expensive costumes, plenty of money. The twoscore black Jap puppets had been set up in a dozen cities by members of Japan's fanatical Black Dragon Society. Actually they had at most 50,000 followers at the time of Pearl Harbor, many less today. The ramified Japanese financing since 1930 had been mainly handled by a Major Satakata Takahashi of Imperial Japanese Intelligence, who began spreading cash and the two-race doctrine: one white, the other...
...Haan, Washington agent of the Sino-Korean People's League. They said that Ken Inukai was in a Japanese jail charged with aiding the attempted assassination (TIME, Aug. 24) of Premier General Hideki Tojo and onetime (1936-37) Premier Koki Hirota, a leader of the sinister militaristic Black Dragon Society. Ken Inukai was also charged with aiding Eurldan, a Korean terrorist group. The charge was that he had helped Eurldan to derail an express 100 miles from Tokyo, thereby badly injuring Navy Minister Admiral Shigetaro Shimada and Captain Fritz Wiedemann, onetime German Consul General in San Francisco...
...losses in U.S. aircraft and men were appallingly high from that time on. Of six Marine torpedo planes that went out, only one returned; of four Army torpedo planes, two came back. A flight of 16 Marine dive-bombers went after a carrier believed to be the Soryu (Blue Dragon). Only eight returned. A battleship was bombed, left smoking and listing...
...almost certain good fall crops of rice have not only assured maximum essentials for army and civil servants' consumption centers but are likely to leave a surplus. The success of Government price control is seen in the fall of prices of rice and wheat flour since the Dragon Boat Festival (May 5), a period when prices usually rise. The food structure seems guaranteed...
Jacare took to his new task with simple dignity. He had always idolized a legendary jangadeiro called "Dragon of the Seas" who kidnapped slaves, hid them safely from posses in the hinterland. If the Dragon could free slaves from slavery, figured Jacare, he could free the jangadeiros from exploitation. And the film's publicity would help...