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Democrazy

AT THE Japanese war trials of 1946, the defunct empire’s former propaganda minister, Shumei Okawa, inadvertently made a good pun. Leaping to his feet, he screamed in his uncertain English: “I hate United States! It is democrazy!”

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Florence King was a contributing editor of National Review.

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Democrazy

AT THE Japanese war trials of 1946, the defunct empire’s former propaganda minister, Shumei Okawa, inadvertently made a good pun. Leaping to his feet, he screamed in his uncertain English: “I hate United States! It is democrazy!”