Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Diet nervous politicians have also been asking what General Doihara is doing in China. In effect Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, author of Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands on China a generation ago, has been obliged to admit that the Japanese Army has sent General Doihara as its own independent negotiator in the Sino-Japanese diplomatic haggle now being conducted as a repetition of the "demands" maneuver (TIME, Feb. 11). The Japanese Army apparently does not trust the Japanese Foreign Office or Japanese diplomats. With something as big as the Empire's future in China at stake...
Strictly off the record, eight Japanese statesmen out of ten will readily admit to not believing the official legend that their Emperor is descended from the Sun Goddess. "We regard our Emperor with the respect Catholics feel for their Pope," they often say in private. Yet last week in the Japanese Parliament, sturdy old Premier Admiral Okada was put sternly on the record. Did he or did he not, demanded Baron Kiyozumi Inouye, hold with Japan's eminent Constitutional authority Dr. Tatsuki Minobe who has just created a nation-wide furor by alluding to the Son-of-Heaven...
...bunk. There is a nine-tiered umbrella in our Siamese ritual, but I have no idea who invented the titles usually ascribed to me. . . . I like the English countryside. The Queen and I have done a lot of motoring. Perhaps we may take a holiday now. I admit I am feeling rather tired...
...selecting students for English 5, instructor wants more than a person who merely writes well. That qualification is understood. The applicant must be mentally mature enough to stand the pace, which, I must admit, often taxes the powers of this inadequate undergraduate brain. Richard C. Boys...
...pumped his best testimony from Mr. Mellon's confidant, Counsel Jackson was forced to let Counsel Hogan make his point-of-the-week by means of a Government witness. Thumping away at his theme song of political persecution, Lawyer Hogan got a Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue to admit that an Assistant Attorney General had initialed the Bureau's letter notifying Mr. Mellon of his tax deficiency. The Hogan conclusion: Attorney General Cummings for political and personal spite had inveigled a reluctant Internal Revenue Bureau into pressing the case against Mr. Mellon...