Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Telegrams. While Franklin Roosevelt waited in vain for any answer from divine Emperor Hirohito covering the Japanese sinking of the Panay, he received a telegram from Alf Landon. A year ago, Alf Landon promised the President support in matters of international policy. Last week, Mr. Landon took advantage of the Panay sinking to reiterate his pledge...
...word, "requests" was written in the President's hand in place of "suggests" which appeared in the original draft. The memorandum also asked for a full apology, compensation, and guarantees against a repetition of such attacks. Since Japan's Emperor Hirohito, to Japanese minds, is a divinity who is not of the Government but above it, the knottiest problem posed for trie Japanese was 1) how to bring the matter to his attention or 2) how to avoid doing so without offending the U. S. By week's end Washington was assured that the Roosevelt note...
Before the week was out Franklin Roosevelt called Cordell Hull to the White House and directed him to demand that the Japanese Foreign Office inform Japan's sacred Emperor Hirohito-the divine Son of Heaven and 129th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess who helped "produce the land and people of Japan"-that the President of the U. S. was shocked and concerned at Japan's behavior. For Japanese-American relations had not been so clarified as mealy-mouthed Admiral Honda believed, and they had reached a more dangerous pass than he might have cared to believe last...
...during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, the Japanese Cabinet at Tokyo was virtually superseded and shoved out of control by setting up so-called Imperial Headquarters. Last week Imperial Headquarters was again set up within the hallowed, moat-encircled palace of Emperor Hirohito. According to an official communique, the War Minister and Navy Minister will occasionally invite the Premier to sit in with them and will keep the rest of the Cabinet posted as to what decisions are made by the potent militarists and revered elders of Imperial Headquarters...
Died. Admiral Baron Sotokichi Uriu, 80, last surviving Japanese graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy (Class of 1881), campaigner in the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars; in Odawara, Japan. Last week Emperor Hirohito posthumously decorated him with the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers...