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The Kwantung Army C

The Pacific Story · October 15, 1944 · 29 min · 4,221 words

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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. In the mounting fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest sea.

The drama of the people whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here as another public service is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come.

The Kondung Army. And not the Navy is the eldest sum of new Japan. Kondung Army said that. Kuniyaki Kondung Army, the premier of Japan, and he knows where of his speaks. What is in its land forces, not its sea forces.

What Kuniyaki Kondung Army means by this is the Japan's Army, particularly the Kondung Army, not only guides the basic policies of the Japanese Navy, Navy, but also guides and controls the destinies of Japan itself.

The Gandung Army is the elite Japanese Army. It is an Army 700,000 strong. It is the Army responsible for the invasion and seizure of Manchurae. The attacks on Russia over the Manchurae and Siberian border, the starting of the present war with China at the Marco Polo Bridge, the thinking of the American gunboat, Phonai, and the promotion of the present war

against the United States. Through these deeds, its leaders have become world-known. Iti gaki, the crafty policymaker. Nishio, the mysterious strongman. Oi haa, the Lawrence of Asia. Hashimato, the fire-reading zealot. Tojo, the bogeyman, and the razor.

Kowiso, disciple of Japanese world dominion. These archmilitarists, along with Araki, Minami, Sugiyama, Umi so and others, have browbeaten and bent Japanese big business to their will. have taken charge of executing Japan's plan for world dominion and have assumed such power that to question them is almost the same as to question the emperor.

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