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...Cabinet of white-haired Premier Viscount Saito could not get away from two facts: Japan is faced with the biggest budget and the biggest deficit in her history. Expressed in yen at par the new budget is to balance at $1.100,000,000?a figure staggering in small Japan???with an expected deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tottering Yen | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...Japan???William Cameron Forbes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover Halfway | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...toward that black republic (TIME, April 7). Familiar enough is Mr. Forbes with the Pacific and its problems. President Roosevelt first sent him to the Philippines in 1904 as a member of an investigating commission. President Taft made him Governor General of the Islands (1909-13). As Ambassador to Japan???a post most men refuse to take because of its personal expense?Mr. Forbes will have in his hands delicate naval negotiations growing out of the London conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Moderation and Calm Vision | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...Chancellor Snowden and went on to tell how "the quiet, plaintive Adachi" came to him one day to confide secretly that he would not actually stand against Britain and was only sitting in with the French, Belgians and Italians "as an observer." This blazing indiscretion amounted to revealing that Japan???the little naval ally of Britain?had been ready all along to double-cross the Continental Powers, several of whose offers to Snowden were countersigned by Dr. Adachi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Snowden Tattles | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Voted down, after a three-day fight, the Presidential appointment of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania to the Interstate Commerce Commission. (Twice previously it had approved him as an Ambassador, first to Spain, later to Japan??? TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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