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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann was further embarrassed. Among 83 parcels delivered by Japanese steamer and labeled "For Personal Use" of the envoy, authorities seized a 60-page book listing 3,000 persons to shadow as "unfriendly to Germany." Next day the distressed Ambassador was seen in his garden, gazing pensively into a large pile of burning documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Good-&-Tough Neighbors | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Descendant of a samurai (feudal military gentry) family, darling of the Army extremists, the old Baron was one of the first Japanese of high position to be labeled "Fascist." But during the last several years his views mellowed to the archconservatism of an elder statesman. He believes in friendship with the U.S. and Britain, favors a quick settlement of the four-year-old Sino-Japanese War, opposes a single totalitarian party, has balked against Axis alliances. So considerable is his influence on Prince Konoye that he has become known as the "Strong Man of the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Big Shot-At | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...When Baron Hiranuma was Premier in 1939, he lived in an "assassination-proof" house in Tokyo. Now he lives in a modest villa in the Tokyo suburbs. Early one morning last week there came to the modest villa a 33-year-old autograph hunter named Naohiko Nishiyama. While the kimonoed Baron obligingly painted his calligraph, Autograph Hunter Nishiyama whipped a revolver from a parchment scroll, fired thrice, missed once. Though wounded, the Baron gave chase, caught the visitor by the shirt, held him with the aid of a guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Big Shot-At | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...Baron's bedside swarmed big shots from Prince Konoye down. Emperor Hirohito sent a basket of fruit. In Japanese court etiquette this meant that the Son of Heaven held hope for his recovery. Had the gift been imperial wine, it would have implied that the Baron's sukiyaki was considered cooked. The Baron took the hint: at week's end he was reported to be rallying strongly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Big Shot-At | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...Autograph Hunter Nishiyama was, whom he represented, Minister for Home Affairs Harumichi Tanabe would not say. The United Press cabled darkly from Shanghai that diplomatic circles there understood that ten hours before the assault, an Axis newspaperman telephoned the Ministry for Home Affairs in Tokyo to inquire if Baron Hiranuma had been shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Big Shot-At | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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