Word: hachiro
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...Japanese reactions to the German-Russian Pact were complete bewilderment. Cabinet Ministers began the routine of hurried calls-on each other, on the Premier, on privy councilors, on the Emperor -which invariably accompany important Japanese decisions and invariably give rise to rumors that the Cabinet will fall. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, who had many a time publicly plumed himself on having accomplished the Anti-Comintern Pact, was busy word-swallowing; Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, who came to power last January because he had Fascist leanings, looked as if he would topple over when his leaning posts were suddenly withdrawn...
...morning of July 15 was a scorcher in Tokyo. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita's homey wife rose early to prepare her husband a jug of iced barley-tea. American-born Lady Craigie, wife of the British Ambassador, slipped into a light blue frock which was a perfect match for her husband's blue official limousine, and drove with him to Foreign Minister Arita's official residence. There, among flocks of photographers, suave little Hachiro Arita shook Sir Robert's hand, took him upstairs, sat him down on the opposite side of a desk no bigger than...
...last week Hachiro Arita had made things so extra hot for Sir Robert that a French cartoonist, in a picture of the lonely parleys, showed Britain's Ambassador not only coatless, but pantless, shirtless, shoeless-stark naked. Sir Robert: "And if I give you my disgusting banknotes?" Mr. Arita: "Then I shall return your honorable pants...
...Great Britain the Government's pleasure was mixed with regret that the U.S. had not gone into action sooner. For earlier in the week at Tokyo, Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie had conceded to Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita recognition of "hostilities on a large scale" and the "special requirements of the Japanese forces in China." Although Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain disagreed, to almost everybody else Great Britain had taken a diplomatic licking...
Great Britain, said Prime Minister Seville Chamberlain last week, would never submit to threats and change its Far Eastern policy at Japan's bidding. When the British and Japanese negotiators got down to real work at Tokyo last week however, Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita insisted in discussions with Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, that Britain admit she had sinned against Japan and promise in the future to recognize "the necessity" of Japan's operations in China. He threatened to break off negotiations unless Sir Robert first signed a general formula to that effect...