Word: isoroku
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Shooting Trouble. In London the Japanese negotiator Rear Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto at last made clear that he could not or would not yield. The U. S. and Britain, he said, must yield 100% to Japan's demand for naval equality. Ambassador Davis and Prime Minister MacDonald surpassed themselves in efforts to get Admiral Yamamoto to promise at least that if Japan were granted paper parity she would not build up to it. "Very sorry, but no," purred Admiral Yamamoto. "Very sorry...
...deadlocked London naval parley between Britain, the U. S. and Japan (TIME, Oct. 29), U. S. Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis last week worsted Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira two up at golf. There was no other progress. Said inflexible Japanese Chief Delegate Rear Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, broadcasting around the world to the Japanese people, "I am in no hurry. I will do my best to attain the Government's objectives and live up to Japan's expectations." These expectations: Britain and the U. S. shall accord Japan naval parity, scrapping the 5-5-3 ratio...
...Berengaria that supercharged torpedo of Japanese diplomacy, Rear Admiral and Special Envoy Isoroku Yamamoto. It is no secret whatever in Tokyo that the Japanese Admiralty has spent most of the summer priming Admiral Yamamoto to blow up the London negotiations unless Japan gets every single thing she wants...
Armed with the unlimited backing of his sovereign and people, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto has arrived in London to begin a series of naval conversations with the United States and Great Britain. While pleading for the cooperation of the three powers for the successful conclusion of the conference, the Japanese representative presented a program the acceptance or refusal of which is equally dangerous to the interests of Pacific, and oven, world peace...