Premier Hideki Tojo shuffled his Cabinet last week and gave Japan a new Foreign Minister: wooden-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu.
In 1932, in Shanghai's Hongkew Park, a Korean patriot threw a bomb at a review stand filled with Japanese officials. Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) lost a leg; Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, later Ambassador to Washington, lost an eye.
Shigemitsu aged, became sallow and bitter. He met one-legged U.S. Author Ellery Walter, who had mastered the use of his artificial leg so perfectly that casual observers never suspected he had it. Shigemitsu took an envious liking to Walter, learned from him how to use...
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