Word: asama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elsewhere in the Americas, including plenty of boring from within in Mexico. Awaiting further instructions from Berlin, Dietrich and his staff of 30 Nazis hoped to set up headquarters in another Latin-American country, perhaps Guatemala, where 34 additional agents en route to the Americas on the Japanese steamer Asama Mam might join them...
Last month an anonymous British cruiser fired across the bows of the Japanese liner Asama Maru, only 35 miles off Japan's naval base of Yokosuka. From the Asama Maru a British boarding party took 21 Germans, judged to be of military age and ability, returning from U. S. employment via Japan and Siberia to Germany (TIME, Jan. 29). These the British interned at Hong Kong. Japan fumed. Great Britain cited her rights under a convention of 1909 (never ratified) which says that persons liable to military service for an enemy may be removed by a belligerent from neutral...
Interesting to the world as a high-policy byplay, this Asama Maru incident was fascinating to the 512 former crew members of the scuttled German liner Columbus, who, last week, were still dawdling deliciously on San Francisco's Angel Island: exercising, playing games, eating three bulky U. S. meals per day, fishing for pogies & perch off Angel Island stringers and smoking the catch for 'tween-meal tidbits, going to one movie a week as guests of the U. S. Army across the island at Fort McDowell. Now that they might not travel in Japanese ships, as planned...
...Japan's Foreign Office handed British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie a flat note demanding that Britain hand over the 21 Germans taken three weeks ago from the Japanese liner Asama Mam. Britain sat tight on her rights. In Tientsin, U. S. citizens as well as Britons suffered from renewed tightening of the British Concession blockade, Japanese military planes roared angrily back & forth 500 feet above the Concession's buildings...
That was beside the point, snapped the Foreign Office. Britain had deliberately insulted Japan by halting a vessel "almost at the base of Mount Fuji" - i. e., 35 miles off shore. The Asama's unfortunate Cap tain Yoshisada Vatanabe was relieved of his job for "misconduct" - i. e., stopping his ship when the British cruiser fired a shot across his bows. Japan promised to "take steps" against Britain and got around to discouraging Germans from traveling on Japanese ships. As if deliberately trying to remove the last vestige of consistency, a Japanese cruiser stopped a British coastal steamer, asked...