Word: shake-up
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...unexpected shake-up of the Army High Command, Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki was removed as Chief of the General Staff of the Japanese forces in China, promoted to the rank of general and sent to command the Japanese forces in Korea. Mummy-faced General Itagaki ("I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve") is the idol of the younger, Fascist-minded Army faction, is credited with originating the North China buffer state plan, which he carried out in Manchukuo. An attempt to carve another buffer state out of the Maritime Province of Siberia might well begin with...
...Army shake-up was announced Emperor Hirohito conferred for two hours with War Minister Lieut. General Eiki Tojo. Next, the Son of Heaven received Navy Minister Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, questioned him for nearly an hour. Then for two hours more the Emperor listened to Prince Konoye. Apparently Japan was almost ready to strike. But where...
...really going to get down to the job of winning the war? When are we going to run machines, factories and shipyards to full capacity? When are we going to see an end of masterly retreats? . . . Something is wrong. Britain needs new ideas. She certainly needs a radical shake-up on the home front...
Beneficiary of this shake-up was the Primo de Rivera clan, the royal family of the Falange. Falangist Arrese married a cousin of Founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera. But the big gainer was Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suòer, who as head of the Falange's Junta Politico, outranks Secretary General Arrese. Just how much Serrano and the Falange had gained was made clear in another decree removing the division of press and propaganda from the Ministry of Government and placing it in the hands of the Falange...
Gordon was in his apartment at the time of the raid and received a tremendous shake-up. Furniture was over-turned, window glass showered the room, and the apartment door was blown into the hall. Wiping the blood from his injured head, Gordon crawled into the hall where he was found by a first-aid worker...