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Word: hiroyasu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept to themselves. They had plenty to talk about. Across the Pacific the clouds massed darkly. Japan, junior member of the Axis, was talking of war if the U. S. didn't like her idea of running the Orient (see p. 40). What goat-faced Fleet Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi had up his Oriental sleeve, neither Frank Knox nor Jo Richardson knew. But Frank Knox had talked tough too, had said that "if a fight is forced upon us we shall be ready." At week's end he called up the naval reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Fleet Ready? | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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