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General Sadao Araki is Japan's champion sabre-rattler and No. 1 Militarist, but Japanese like to point out in his favor that he is personally frail-looking, mild-mannered, small, ascetic, "a mystic." Araki himself reconciles these contradictions in his character with his favorite maxim, "Be greedy only in mind." To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister. When he was ill, Japanese teachers collected sen from their schoolchildren to buy Araki medicine. Last...
...powers by imprudent statements. It is the despair of Japan's diplomats that there is no language that can explain what Japan is about to do that will not also inflame the foreign Press. Premier Saito and Elder Statesman Saionji forced the resignation of fire-eating War Minister Araki four months ago because of the latter's imprudent announcements. For the same reason they passed over General Araki's own candidate for Foreign Minister-Matsuoka, the man who marched the Japanese
...appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time," said General Sadao Araki last December before he retired as Japan's sword-rattling War Minister, "with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country...
...else but the "Inevitability of a Russo-Japanese War." Their militant chatter reached such a pitch last week that War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi was moved to step in and soft-pedal it. In his first interview since his elevation to the Cabinet as successor to the sword-rattling Araki, General Hayashi kept a straight face while he told the Associated Press...
...things change the more they become the same," winked a complacent War Office official pointing out that his new chief recently wrote the preface to the novel provocatively describing a war between Japan and Soviet Russia.* But despite his militancy War Minister Hayashi is rated more cosmopolitan than General Araki. Several times he has represented Japan in Geneva, gained a broader world view. On taking office he had nothing to say to correspondents, beyond admitting that the Japanese Who's Who is correct in listing his recreation as "the collecting of swords...