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...Tokyo, Kenzo Adachi, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs, received a letter from Kiyoshi Nojima, in which the writer had enclosed the tip of his little finger as a token of sincerity...
...microphone from his easy chair at the Chancellor's official residence, No. 10 Downing Street. He knew that all Belgium read his words next day, yet he called the distinguished Prime Minister of that friendly state "poor Jaspar."* Careless of affront to Japan, he spoke of Dr. Mine- ichira Adachi, Chief of the Japanese Delegation, as "the quiet, plaintive Adachi." The whole speech bristled with that same humoring superiority?that air of considering other statesmen mere children? which infuriated the Latin statesmen at The Hague to the point of tantrums and tears...
...They kept making totally inadequate offers." continued Chancellor Snowden and went on to tell how "the quiet, plaintive Adachi" came to him one day to confide secretly that he would not actually stand against Britain and was only sitting in with the French, Belgians and Italians "as an observer." This blazing indiscretion amounted to revealing that Japan?the little naval ally of Britain?had been ready all along to double-cross the Continental Powers, several of whose offers to Snowden were countersigned by Dr. Adachi...
Home Affairs: Kenzo Adachi, onetime Minister of Communications...
...colleagues; 2) Monsieur Aristide Briand (France), tousled and heavy eyed as a tomcat at dawn; 3) Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany), plump, bald, rubicund, and yet with a trig, indefinable air of smartness; 4)Signor Vittorio Scialoja (Italy), representing with compact, bustling decisiveness the great Duce; 5) Baron Adachi (Japan), frail, insignificant in stature, piping voiced, yet with a winning and decisive mien...