"How's your ear?" demanded Prime Minister Yuko ("Shishi" or "The Lion") Hamaguchi last week of his war minister, General Ugaki.
The general was astounded. He had called at what he feared would be the death bed of his chief. Day before a young fanatic, one Tameo Sagoya, had put a bullet into the Prime Minister's abdomen, pierced the small intestine. In the cir cumstances it was remarkable that even Japan's dauntless old Lion should remember General Ugaki's tympanitis, roar at him feebly, "How's your ear?"
Hovering near Death, the Prime Minister received three blood transfusions, the first from his...
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