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Encouraged by Wednesday's good showing against Columbia, the cagers will go into action against old Nassau tonight in an attempt to avenge a 49-19 defeat at the hands of the Tiger a month ago. The same lineup that Fesler has been using in the past few encounters will be used in both games this weekend...
...Only General Araki can ride the tiger," was a picturesque excuse passed around among Japanese politicians when they found themselves forced to make him War Minister with the powers of a quasi-Dictator (TIME, April 4. 1932). "The tiger" was Japan's Army &: Navy, then rampant with the ardor of fire-eating younger officers "to wage a purifying struggle [war] for the Divine Emperor." Last week, in view of the spectacular success in Japanese eyes of General Araki's two year ride on the tiger, the entire Far East was profoundly jolted by abrupt news that General Araki...
When the scraggly-mustached, ascetic General took charge, Japan's tiger was so restive that petty naval officers assassinated Premier Ki Inukai because they considered him a pacifist (TIME, May 23, 1932). Trusting General Araki, the fighting services who despise and hate all Japanese politicians, then settled down to the glorious tiger work of gobbling up Manchukuo and parts of China proper, not forgetting the Japanese naval clawing at Shanghai. Probably the Araki "ride" saved Japanese parliamentary government from being destroyed by a coup...
...hard wooden pillow General Araki pondered these things and the flame of his fighting loyalty burned high. "I am too weak now," he said. "Another must take my place." This other turned out to be a tiger man more militant if possible than invalid Araki-hale & hearty General Senjuro Hayashi, Inspector General of Military Education...
...What happened the last time "Tiger" Clemenceau stirred another man's coffee with his cane...