Word: fumimaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death Revealed. Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, 41, son of the late Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Japan's Premier during 1937-39 and 1940-41; of Bright's disease on Oct. 29; in a Russian prison camp at Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow. Princeton exposed Prince Konoye (he captained the university's 1937-38 golf team, flunked out in his senior year) was captured in Manchuria (1945) while serving as a lieutenant, in 1951 was socked with a 25-year sentence for "aiding capitalism." Russia did not bother to inform Japan of his death, allowed news to leak out last...