Word: hata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally staccato news flashes broke in: The Abe Cabinet is definitely out . . . Prince Konoye is being urged . . . General Hata will almost certainly be chosen if the Army consents...
...said some of Japan's shortages and hardships could be avoided if the light industries, with the vital export trade they nourish, were not sacrificed for the sake of war industries. Last week Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita was repeatedly criticized. And Ryozo Makino bitterly attacked War Minister Shunroku Hata for keeping military finances secret. "The people are uneasy," warned Member Makino. But War Minister Hata bluntly refused to reveal military expenses, and when debate began to sizzle, he coolly cut off the stenographic record of proceedings...
...Army seethed. Dietarian Saito had "belittled Japan's holy war and defiled the souls of hundreds of thousands of dead" (official Japanese figures on Japanese dead: 70,000). War Minister General Shunroku Hata appeared before the lower House to answer the Saito attack with a charming speech about "peace in East Asia," "universal brotherhood," "good neighborliness" and a still undefined "New Order...