Word: barone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orchestras will play at the 1948 Jubilee, scheduled to run from 8 to 12 o'clock on May 26. George Greggory's band, including ten pieces and a vocalist, will supply music for dancers in the Kirkland dining hall, while Baron Hugo's sextet is to play for couples in the common room...
...Baron Suzuki belongs to a bygone generation of Jap empire-builders. He was an up-&-coming naval officer during Japan's war against China's decadent Manchu Empire (1894-5) and against Russia's hapless Tsarist Navy (1904-5). Before his retirement in 1927, he rose to the Navy's supreme command. Then he joined the inner circle of the Court. As Grand Chamberlain he walked a few respectful paces behind Hirohito at public functions (see cut), helped name the Emperor's first born son. Most important, he served as the door through which...
Round of Wails. Now it was Baron Suzuki's turn to call on the Army extremists. As custom dictated, before naming his new cabinet, he chatted with ex-Premier Koiso and with fanatical ex-War Minister Field Marshal Gen Sugiyama. While making his round of visits, the sirens wailed, and he spent an hour or so in a shelter as U.S. bombers raked the capital...
Forty-eight hours after receiving the imperial commission, Premier Baron Suzuki announced his Government. By militarist standards, it was the weakest of Japan's wartime cabinets. Of 14 cabinet posts, the Army held one, the Navy four, civil service and big business nine. Several of the new Ministers were violently anti-American...
Perhaps, as some Allied observers hoped, the senescent figure of Baron Suzuki was a front for a negotiated peace. "The Jap Cabinet shake-up," cracked one, "is really a plea for mercy...