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Even more remarkable: Zacharias had pointed out to the Admiral that there were then two Jap envoys in Washington, Nomura and Kurusu. "When the third one arrives," he said, "you can look for it to break immediately." The third Japanese diplomat, Tatsuyi Sakamoto, Ambassador to Peru, arrived in Washington...
...apparent Jap attempt still puzzles CWS. Two bottles of water drifted in from the Pacific by balloon. One was no more polluted than tap water in some careless cities' municipal water systems; the other, for reasons known only to Tokyo, contained sterile water...
...Patrons. Like a good steward, MacArthur carefully included statements that would interest his patrons. Both Britain and Russia received a tribute: ¶ Jap laborites, the General reported, are sponsoring the Social Democratic Party in the belief that "political action along lines followed by the British Labor Party is the most certain means of attaining their objectives." ¶ Japan's Communists have been "keenly felt on the political scene" and have "carried on a vigorous program of activity...
...about starvation? We have only eight Government officers in a city of nearly three million." In another prefecture, less than half the 250 war plants that wanted to make peacetime products have even been examined-and after each such survey, it takes weeks to divest local Jap authorities of their national aptitude for red tape, graft and apathy, before the factory gets going again...
Glutton for Punishment. In Shawnee, Kans., Army Corporal John G. Lally, survivor of the Bataan Death March, a Jap prison (three years, five months), malaria and temporary blindness, re-enlisted...