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...years Frederick Moore served the Japanese government as adviser on international affairs. Seven ambassadors to Washington-Shidehara, Hanihara, Mat-sudaira, Debuchi, Saito, Horinouchi, Nomura-worked with his assistance. He was a member of the Japanese delegation which went to the League of Nations to argue Japan's case for the invasion of Manchuria. When Matsuoka, the delegation's head; insolently marched out of the League Assembly, he was followed by all his fellow delegates save Frederick Moore...
Publicist Akiyama, "the Colonel House of Japan," declared in a magazine article: "Hanihara's 'grave consequences' note was a warning from Heaven which the gods of Nippon conveyed through the pen of a clumsy diplomat...
Roused by these wrathy words, the Japanese learned with satisfaction last week that Masanao Hanihara is likely soon to succeed Kentaro Ochiai as Japanese Ambassador to Italy. There his smile, his wit, his vigor may perhaps charm Il Duce. Concurrently Premier Wakatsuki reshuffled his Cabinet, appointed the following politicians to the offices named: Viscount K. Inouye, Railroads; C. Machida, Agriculture; M. Hamaguchi, Home Affairs...
...Appointed Ambassador to the U. S. (TIME, March 3, 1923), Masanao Hanihara, moonfaced, perpetually smiling, became irksome to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, by championing with great persistence the rights of Nippon. While the Immigration Bill was pending before the Senate (TIME, April 28, 1924, CONGRESS), Ambassador Hanihara, an experienced diplomat, but goaded to extremities by the Senate's anti-Japanese predilections, staked all upon a "diplomatic threat" to the Secretary of State that "grave consequences" might follow the enactment of the Japanese exclusion clause of the bill. The Senate, reacting violently and negatively to the Hanihara note...
Having precipitated the very situation which he sought to check, Ambassador Hanihara withdrew to Japan (TIME, July...