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Behind the darkened windows of his official residence, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, grave-faced beyond his habit, looked at the frowning, worried men of his Cabinet. He told them that the Emperor had accepted their resignation. Then they departed. They, too, were thoughtful. This, they knew, was the end of Japan's effort to compromise with destiny...
Only one nation has the power to alter these time limits for the Japanese Empire: the United States. Last week a great debate raged in Tokyo. The Navy-and-civilian-dominated Government of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye wanted to persuade the U.S. to relent and alter the fixed time limits. The Japanese Army, struggling for power in the Government, felt that U.S. policy was inexorably fixed, that Japan must move before the time limits expired...
...Japan's bluff was called. Japan's Army and Navy, like all others today, are huge internal combustion machines, which without oil must inevitably burn out bearings and rattle to a stop. So on Aug. 28 Kichisaburo Nomura carried to Franklin Roosevelt a note from Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. It contained, by inference, Japan's declaration of willingness to back down. Its proposition was that the U.S. and Japan ought not to let bad feelings deteriorate into worse, and worse into...
...More Axis to Grind? Trying to effect a last-minute reconciliation with the U.S., feeling his Government giving and straining beneath him, remembering the recent attempted assassination of Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma (TIME, Aug. 25), Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was on a spot. Either a difficult war or a new wave of political assassinations was possible. Knowing how little the Axis had to offer, weighing the combined Allied might in the Orient, sensing the industrial and commercial profits to be gained from a Pacific peace, Prince Konoye must have hoped that some arrangement could be worked out with the stiffening...
...nearly smothered, disguising himself and mourning at his own funeral (TIME, March 9, 1936). Last week things were tense in Japan and the big shot-at was horse-toothed Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, 75, onetime Premier and currently Vice Premier and Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet of Prince Fumimaro Konoye...