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China's Punch. Behind these fronts, Japan is busy. Three weeks ago Premier Tojo paid a flying visit to Puppet Wang Ching-wei in Nanking. There plans were laid for the use of occupied areas as a weight to drag down the free areas. Where as China once used the occupied areas against Japan - by scorching the earth, by guerrilla interruptions - Japan will now use the same areas to blockade Free China, to bolster Japan's economy constructively while Free China's economy withers...
...once plunder, it is now construction and trade. The Japanese armies lash out, not to demolish the Chinese armies, but to scorch Free Chinese earth, as in the Lake District. There are also appeals to the future: whereas the Allies have promised to give up extraterritoriality after the war, Tojo's government announced that on March 30 Japan would give up concessions in Amoy, Hankow, Soochow, Hangchow, Tientsin...
Burma's Judy. In Burma even more is being made of political appeals. Fortnight ago Burma's Puppet Premier Ba Maw visited Tokyo. He was entertained in an annex of Premier Tojo's official residence. He was taken to the Diet, given a banquet, interviewed. And then he was told by Premier Tojo that Japan had set up "the new independent State of Burma...
...81st session of the Japanese Diet closed last week after vesting more military, political and economic powers in Premier Hideki Tojo than any premier has held since Japan emerged from feudalism...
From the assortment of titles he now holds, Tojo ("the Razor") could easily be mistaken for Tojo, the Dictator: he is Premier, War Minister, Home Minister, production chief. Tojo himself halfheartedly dispelled this interpretation when he explained: "I am not speaking of absolute dictatorship but I would like to make this clear: I possess power as Premier by order of the Emperor, and at present I am the leader of the nation. The responsibility is an important one in every way in the glorious light of the foundation of the empire." Another explanation: Tojo exercised his powers on behalf...