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...their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers grow cold, then warm, then cold again, then warm, and at last hot, and burning hot. The weakly King was hard to kill: when they threw him from the balcony they thought him doubly dead from bullet wounds and sword slashes, but the fingers of his right hand clasped the railing and had to be cut off before he fell to the ground, where the fingers of his left hand clutched the grass...
...would have been pleasant to turn round and run back to the car . . . but the place had enormous authority. It was the body of our death, it was the seed of the sin that is in us, it was the forge where the sword was wrought that shall slay...
Treaty obligations shelved for the moment, verbal sword-rattling continued apace in the Japanese press. The official Domei news agency predicted that the Diet's extraordinary session on Nov. 15 would find Premier Hideki Tojo detailing a time limit for U.S.-Japanese discussions. Said the conservative Asahi: "Japan, making a great sacrifice to establish the New East Asia, must take even stronger resolutions to go straight ahead in this and other national policies, to the disregard of American obstructions." Yomiuri made much of the Reuben James sinking, doubted U.S. ability to police both oceans, termed the Atlantic Fleet...
...They became hereditary warriors who enjoyed special privileges and prestige over their dull and weaker brethren who tilled the soil and engaged in other sorts of civilian life. The samurai were as proud as if they were the guardians of their nation. They believed "might is right" and the sword is justice. So great was their influence that the country came under the domination of their martial spirit, and it became a land of samurai...
...estimated Government expenditures for the current fiscal year of more than 20,000,000.000 yen, revenues are estimated at 5,220,000,000.) And Japan's best friend, Adolf Hitler, was not only far away, but kept urging Japan to stick its neck within reach of the Allied sword...