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Merchant Nato, realizing that he now knew too much to be safe from assassination if he refused to contribute, grudgingly gave 60,000 yen, prepared to sell short. Meanwhile the plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...
Phillip E. Shick, 17, of 1053 West Main street, Van Wert, O.; Van Wert High School; son of Verga R. Shick, city inspector; ranked first among the boys in his class and was local president of the class, captain of the state championship debating team, and winner of the annual Rotary Club of Louisville award...
...Thundered "Shame! Shame!" as Conservative M. P.'s charged that in Manchester a school inspector had reproved 12-year-old Maud Mason for "old fashioned imperialism" when she wrote on the occasion of His Majesty's Silver Jubilee: "England is only a small country but it is better than any other country because it has a good King and Queen to reign over...
...loyal M. P.'s flayed the Manchester school inspector, London's sensation-sheets made a heroine of Moppet Maud, who was rushed to the House of Commons and popped into the visitors' gallery to hear aristocratic Major Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Education, report on her case...
Said Major Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby: "The inspector did not, as one of my honorable friends has suggested, 'publicly rebuke a little child's pure and holy love of its country,' but suggested in a private conversation with the teacher that the child's essay perhaps indicated a patriotism more fervent than considered. The inspector demonstrated his own practical patriotism during the World War by serving four years in the British Army...