Word: asama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Joe Grew reached Lourengo Marques, Mozambique, aboard the diplomatic exchange ship Asama Maru, on the first leg of his homeward trip to Washington. The 62-year-old Ambassador's unhappiness was made plain in quotations from a speech which he had delivered to his Embassy staff in Tokyo on May 30. Said he: "I have not an iota of doubt of our ultimate victory in this war of nations. I myself, during these past months, have had plenty of time to survey the ruins of a life's work as an architect might regard, after...
...often happens in personal crises, Joe Grew's large distress was accompanied by small discomforts. The Japanese had allowed no dogs on the Asama Maru and the Ambassador had been obliged to leave behind his four-year companion Sasha, a white spitz...
Back in the U.S. last fortnight, after escaping to Australia by PT boat and bomber. Correspondent Floyd exploded over a new headline: VOLCANIC BLAST TERRIFIES JAPAN. It was about an eruption of Mt. Asama. As an ex-staffman on Tokyo's then-U.S.-owned Japan Advertiser, he knew Mt. Asama was in a sparsely settled region and "could do a double-Vesuvius" without exciting the Japs...
Tokio dispatches, published on the front pages of many American newspapers, to the effect that the recent eruption of Asama-Yama, Japan's largest active volcano, was a catastrophe, were denounced as Axis propaganda designed to foster false optimism among the United Nations by L. Don Leet, assistant professor of Seismology...
...Leet stated, Asama, Japan's most treacherous volcano, erupted violently with disastrous effects, and it has been constantly active ever since. Consequently there is no reason to believe, much as we would like to, that this eruption is a prelude to a period of menacing volcanic activity in the enemy's camp, the professor concluded...