Word: hiroshi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Oriental diplomacy and even war are nine-tenths Face, Japan's greatest shock aside from losing potential armed support against Russia was that Germany had not whispered a word of warning. Ambassador to Berlin Hiroshi Oshima hurried around to see Joachim von Ribbentrop soon after he got back from signing the Pact, taxing him with this slight. How long had this been in the wind? Why had he told Italy's Count Ciano and not him? Herr von Ribbentrop, who seemed to enjoy the situation, merely replied that consultations had been going on "for a considerable time...
Japan's Ambassador to the U. S. since 1934 has been 51-year-old Hiroshi Saito, a jovial, waspy little man who has ingratiating ways with Washington correspondents, plays poker with White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre and prides himself on his U. S. slang. Diplomat Saito approves the establishment of a Japanese-controlled China, but is generally believed to dislike the smashing tactics the army is using to achieve it. His unpalatable task since the China war started has been to square aggressive Japan with a U. S. sympathetic to China. Dashing about making polite apologies and good-will...
Japanese officers in Shanghai, Japanese officials in Tokyo and Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito in Washington were by this time making the most fervent apologies to every U. S. official and journalist they could find. "Of course it was completely accidental and a great mistake!" cried hard-boiled Ambassador Saito as he worried in to see Secretary Hull. "I have come to bring deep regrets...
...Tokyo's Meiji Shrine Pool, under the eyes of Princess Takamatsu, Princes Takamatsu and Sumi, Japanese Swimmer Hiroshi Negami finished an 800-metre free-style race in 10:02.4, a world's record, while his team was beating a touring team of five U. S. champions...
After running down a woman in his car, Hiroshi Mitsui, 22, younger brother of the head of one of Japan's rich, famed Mitsui family's eleven branches, was lodged over night in the Bridgeport, Conn. jail, released next morning on $1,000 bail charged with reckless driving...