Word: hata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak Nanking headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army, thin, razor-keen General Shunroku Hata was brightly confident. He boasted: "As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops." The year...
Climax. This week-sooner than even Prince Konoye had expected-the single party idea became a matter of grave immediacy. General Shunroku Hata, who almost blocked the formation of the Yonai Cabinet single-handed six months ago, broke it by resigning from the War Ministry. His reason: "Japan must take a stronger attitude in East Asia." Early dispatches guessed that either General Hata or Prince Konoye would form a new government, and that in either case, the single party would be jammed into being as quickly as possible. But the manner in which the climax came boded no good...
Last week Japan entered the World War -not explicitly, with a formal declaration and a frontal attack; but deviously, jesuitically, with that unsubtle subtlety which is so peculiarly Japanese. Actually there were two indirect declarations of war: In Tokyo, War Minister General Shunroku Hata told his staff: "We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity." And Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, in a radio speech, defined the opportunity as a chance to enforce what Tokyo papers called an "Asiatic Monroe Doctrine": henceforth Japan would not meddle outside Asia, would tolerate no outside meddling inside Asia...
...Admiral Yonai was himself amazed at the Emperor's choice, the people of Japan were more so. The White Elephant was certainly a dark horse. The appointment of General Shunroku Hata, War Minister in the fallen Cabinet, had been so generally taken for granted that afternoon that newspapers came out with extras announcing his appointment as a fact. Office seekers prematurely crowded the Hata home to congratulate...
...worried about financial matters because he had achieved the major political triumph of persuading former Finance Minister Sotaro Ishiwata to demean himself to be the Premier's own secretary; nor about military matters because the Emperor had taken the spectacular, unprecedented step of calling in General Hata to bid the Army obey the Cabinet...