The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-17

who used to be a student of Karl Marx, likes imported perfumes, sleeps until noon, and loves golf but gets too tired to ever finish a game The mob of women who were arrested for hugging and kiss ing some newly arrived Italian sail- ors recently. Kissing in public is criminal offense in Japan The way the Tokyo Comic Story -Tellers Association was recently put on the carpet and warned to stop telling stories that deal with concubines or shady ladies and to limit themselves to 4380 specially selected stories of spiritual value.
 Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka who is planning to go from Toyko to Berlin in 1941 to help solidify the Mutual Alliance Pact. He used to be bellhop in a Seattle hotel :. The governments campaign to eliln- mate all English words from the Japanese language. They're getting particularly worked up over the widespread custom of painting the word, water closet" The poll of the leading Geishas which re- vealed their. favorite actors to be Gary Cooper and Charles Boyer, and their favorite actress, Deanna Durbin The surprisingly few cuts the censors make on copies of John Gunther's Inside Asia" '. They tear out pages 1 to "A, and pages 35, 36, 181 and 1892 '. The wholesale arrests of people caught dancing after 9 D. m Dancing is frowned upon as contrary to the war spirit Premier Konoye's son, Butch, who flunked out o1 Princeton after beieng voted Mos Likely to Succeed" became jour. nalist in Tokyo, and is now ar officer on the China front.
 The mystery of the actual strength of the Jap Navy. The Governmen goes to every extreme to keep it mythical navy mysterious so that will be invested with powers doesn't possess .. A five-year Nav program ending in 1942 will hay cost the government $240,Q00, ,000 .. | JdDdL CldALIlo tO lldtO bOdIo oO,oO to 6O,OOO tons, with eighteen-inc guns, twice as big as aanythin afloat z. T. Tommy" Iwandt American educated Japanese, who editor of the Government-oWne newspaper printed in English. Tn Japan Times Advertiser. He was re gently arrested for publishing
 photograph showing Emperc Kangte, of Manchukuo, arriving Yokchama-because the blurre prov of the M. s. Hyuga was the background. He was was fine one thousand yen.
 The propaganda epic, "Burnil,
 Skies," which Japan is planning
 release shortly in California. It
 sort of Dawn Patrol" story shov
 ing Japan's strength in the ai
 (The Japs spent $750,000 and thr' years filming it.) ... Walterd Vii
 chelps column, which, though we
 censored, is widely read in Japa
 because it contains the only ney from America available, outside war and politics. The column al pears on and off, about six wee
 late, in the English printed "Ko
 Chronicle" a newspaper owned a couple of EngliShmen T newsstand in the lobby of the IT perial Hotel, which used to featu Time, Life, Cosmopolitan and t
 Saturday Evening Post, but h
 now thrown them out in favor
 the Berlin Zeitung, Der Tag a
 Mein Kampf.
 How all American magazines a newspapers except Time, are n
 tilated by the Japanese cens'
 when they arrive. Because the ce
 sors don't understand Times l culiar style and let most of stuff slip through =. "The Ho Song" the best-selling song a record in Japan. It deals with mules and horses used by the ] army in the war on China \ The newsreels which deal almost ! clusively with Uncle Sam's unp ! paredness for war. (And Hitl' k triumphs) The way Amerit \ Journalists don't dare mention E \ peror Hirohito's name for fear ! being overheard and arrested. \ whenever they want to refer to
 Emperor God, they call Il "Charlien.
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