Tojo

[ toh-joh ]

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noun

Hi·de·ki [hee, -de-kee], 1884–1948, Japanese general: executed for war crimes.

Tojo

/ ˈtəʊdʒəʊ /

TojoHideki18851948MJapaneseMILITARY: soldierPOLITICS: statesman Hideki (ˈhiːdɛˌkiː). 1885–1948, Japanese soldier and statesman; minister of war (1940–41) and premier (1941–44); hanged as a war criminal

What was America supposed to do after Pearl Harbor, put the keys to the Golden Gate in an airmail envelope and send them to Tojo?

It was clear enough to every American that Hitler and Tojo were bad news, and that was that.

Yet, as the documentarian Ken Burns has noted, he was responsible for the deaths of more Army soldiers than Hitler and Tojo.

And FDR did not wage war against all the enemies of freedom: He allied with Stalin to defeat Hitler and Tojo.

Why are Hitler and Mussolini and Tojo insecure if we survive?

I guess maybe something's being cooked up for Tojo and his boys.

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