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...Tokyo, Kimie Tojo, the shy, 19-year-old daughter of Japan's wartime Premier, arrived to make her donation to the blood bank, became so upset by the photographers that the doctors sent her home with a case of high blood pressure. Next day, with no photographers watching, she returned and calmly left her pint of blood...
...Author Kase's hatred for the army's trigger-happy expansionists sounds sincere enough. And he has little more regard for the navy, although he records that as late as Oct. 14, 1941, the naval high command seemed halfheartedly opposed to an attack. When warmongering War Minister Tojo dared the navy to state its apparent reluctance openly, the navy quickly backed down, fearful "of encroachment [by the army] on its prerogatives if it showed any signs of weakness...
Died. Shigenori Togo, 67, Japanese career diplomat who became Foreign Minister seven weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack and internal ailments; in Tokyo. Tried as a war criminal in 1948, he insisted that he had opposed Premier Hideki Tojo's expansionist policies, but was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment...
...last week Western diplomats were wondering which of their old acquaintances in the Soviet Foreign Ministry had been shot as a result. If any did go to the basement at Lubianka prison, they were unjustly punished. The inscrutable American is a hard man to guess, as Wilhelm and Tojo and Hitler found out. The Kremlin knows a lot about the U.S., but even if it had had a spy in the Cabinet of the Joint Chiefs, it could not have predicted the U.S. reaction. Even American observers were amazed at the unanimity with which the U.S. President and people responded...
...that June day five years ago, peace had seemed simply a problem of lashing shell fire, the stutter of machine guns, a man named Hitler and a man named Tojo. This June, children played on the half-buried landing craft. But peace seemed more elusive and infinitely more baffling, a matter of hard-held purpose in the face of provocation, hard-built strength in the face of shadowy threat...