Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sick abed last week lay a fourth Peace Man, Baron Shidehara, who as Japanese Foreign Minister tried to keep the Japanese Army from rushing into Manchuria. That Baron Shidehara was poisoned is Tokyo rumor, may be untrue...
...best they could last week the Privy Council, headed by Baron Hiranuma, stood against Japan's militarists who were succeeding at Shanghai (see p. 24). The Council forced Premier Inukai to cut down a Japanese internal bond issue now about to be floated from 28,000,000 yen to 22,000,000 yen ($7,315,000). This money, unquestionably, will be spent to pay some of Japan's fight bills. Whom will she fight next, if anyone...
Obsequies. Certain that Dr. Dan's departed soul was lingering near his body, over 1,000 Japanese came to his home bearing incense which they burned in the Presence. Burners included Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers, Baron Hiranuma, President of the Privy Council, and the Minister of the Imperial Household who dropped an august intimation : the Son of Heaven will bestow posthumously on Dr. Dan the First Order of the Sacred Treasure. After a Buddhist funeral the august remains will be buried at Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo...
...father," said Son Ino Dan, the new Baron, "was much worried about the conflict with China and had discussed it at home before leaving for his office. I believe that my father was trying to accomplish something nationally significant. He had spent the entire day previous with the League of Nations Commission...
...assassination. None of these banks had to close last week. But the entire Japanese fiscal community was on edge and fear stalked even in the Cabinet of Premier Inukai. Said Finance Minister Takahashi, "When I think of the assassination of Mr. Inouye and now of the loss of Baron Dan, I feel, and I feel most keenly, the danger of social unrest...