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...squadron promised Dr. Chung 200 Jap planes by next Christmas, but by June it had bagged only ten. Then, during the battle of Saipan, the squadron shot down 177 Jap planes within two weeks without a loss. Joyfully, squadron leader, Commander William A. Dean Jr., wired Dr. Chung: "TOJO SAY ROY GRUMMAN PUBLIC...
...meaning of all this, so far as outsiders could divine, was that the new Jap Cabinet and new Supreme War Council had thrown ex-Premier Tojo's China-first policy out the window. With high hopes for Oikawa as a brilliant strategist, they were preparing to meet the U.S. threat from east and south...
General Hideki Tojo bowed before the Emperor, confessed his many failures. As Premier, holding most of the strategic Cabinet posts, he had bet on the wrong team in-Europe, had led his country into war. As War Minister and lately Chief of the Army Staff, he had lost Saipan, was still bogged down in China. As Munitions Minister, he had failed to achieve sufficient war production at home. Tojo resigned with his whole Cabinet...
...Like Tojo, Koiso is a tough product of the same Kwantung Army which conquered Manchuria, a member of the same Young Officer group that started pulling the strings behind Japan's aggressive policies a decade and a half ago. But unlike Tojo, he is running no one-man show. Koiso's performers include...
...Mamoru Shigemitsu, who was Foreign Minister under Tojo. He now holds that job as well as the Ministry for Greater East Asia Affairs. Acceptable to the Army and big business, he is considered a moderate. In 1938, he settled a serious border dispute with the Soviet Union. Last spring he transferred Japan's extraterritorial rights in China to Puppet Wang Ching-wei. His Greater East Asia responsibilities include the continent from Manchuria to Burma. When face-saving or gracious withdrawals become inescapable, Shigemitsu can do both with honorable grace...