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Suzuki-san probably would know who this speaker was: Major General Eugen Ott, German Ambassador to Tokyo. But he probably would not know why this foreigner's tone was so cordial, his eye so gleamy, his smile so quick. He would not know why General Ott was so warm whenever he mentioned the name of Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the conqueror of Singapore, the hero of this day of days...
...little German Fleet-the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the heavy cruiser Prince Eugen, their destroyers and minesweepers-got proudly through the Channel, 700-odd miles from Brest to their home base in Germany...
Nobody, least of all the U.S. Government, supposed that Japan would not find the pact full of meaning if, at some later date, it became safe to challenge the U.S. Just now Japan was preoccupied in keeping the U.S. mollified by polite doubletalk. But to German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott double-talk is not pleasing. At an anniversary luncheon at Foreign Minister Toyoda's home he talked straight...
...announcement followed the death of two Axis generals, indicating that the Russians had a similar idea. At Cernauti, Rumania, 150 miles behind the front line, 58-year-old Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert was killed "in fighting." A Berne report said that Russian parachutists had landed in the town and killed not only General von Schobert but all his staff and the Nazi-liege governor of the province. Seven days later General Mihai lonescu, Chief of Staff of the Rumanian Army, was reported killed in action as his troops hammered at the walls of Odessa...
...after he saw the Emperor, Foreign Minister Matsuoka summoned German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, who was doubtless asked to explain Adolf Hitler's rather belittling reference to Yosuke Matsuoka in his proclamation of war. (Hitler: "I myself advised Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka that eased tension with Russia always was in hope of serving the cause of peace.") In Berlin Japanese Ambassador Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima called on Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop for the same purpose...