Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead of night at Tokyo last week, highest army, navy and Cabinet bigwigs met and went secretly to see Emperor Hirohito in his moat-encircled castle. They clattered over the ancient drawbridge at 1:30 a. m., bound for the sixth Imperial Conference since the founding of the present Japanese Constitutional Empire. About noon the statesmen dispersed but not until late afternoon was the Japanese public permitted to know what had taken place...
...good company,"commented Upton Close, who knew Wu well, "but Wu Pei-fu is one of the few men in China who cannot be bought."Last week the Marshal was available in Peking. If he has really come to terms with Japan (and in 1932 he wrote to Emperor Hirohito suggesting a Chinese-Japanese "conference of elder statesmen"for peace), the Great Powers may soon be tempted to consider that China has been given a central government which is an acceptable alternative to the Government of Chiang Kaishek...
Last week Japan made an unpleasant reality even more real. In a note to the U. S., which was approved by the whole Cabinet and by sacred Emperor Hirohito. the U. S. charges were answered with a polite, sugary denial: "It is far from the thoughts of the Japanese Government to impair the rights and interests of American citizens in China or discriminate against their enterprises." Tucked away at the end of the note was a paragraph which, translated to plainer, less diplomatic language, was blunt advice to the U. S. to wake up and realize that...
Last week, short-sighted Japanese Emperor Hirohito, the not-too-alert Son of Heaven, sent to his Fascist ally Premier Benito Mussolini the highest decoration in the gift of His Imperial Majesty. Italian papers proudly reported that Il Duce had received the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Japanese Empire, did not mention that it consisted of a decoration in the form of a flower, that its proper name was the "Order of the Chrysanthemum...
...line, pleaded with him to keep the peace, was assured there would be no Japanese-Russian war. Since then Cleveland's Abraham ("Abe") Pickus has been busy telephoning world diplomats, dictators and statesmen in a vigorous one-man campaign to bring about international amity. Although Chamberlain, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito of Japan and many another bigwig refused to talk, Veteran Pickus once was put through to Spain's Franco, another time to Hitler, whom he promptly bewildered by shouting: "Hello, Hello! Is this A. Hitler? This is A. Pickus of Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A." Last week Mr. Pickus...