Word: kichisaburo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When cheerful Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura says this the sparkle goes out of his one good eye. To him it is a sentence full of unhappy foreign policy. It means that Japan is desperately hard up for oil and gasoline; that therefore Japan must for the time being say uncle to Uncle Sam -or else fight...
Toward Politeness. Japan's bluff was called. Japan's Army and Navy, like all others today, are huge internal combustion machines, which without oil must inevitably burn out bearings and rattle to a stop. So on Aug. 28 Kichisaburo Nomura carried to Franklin Roosevelt a note from Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. It contained, by inference, Japan's declaration of willingness to back down. Its proposition was that the U.S. and Japan ought not to let bad feelings deteriorate into worse, and worse into...
...unanswered, was Prince Konoye's personal note to President Roosevelt. From Washington, however, came a report giving one version of the Japanese aims in current negotiations. Premier Konoye, it said, had assured President Roosevelt of his desire for peace, requested economic discussions, told the President that peaceful Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura was really empowered to speak for his nation. Ambassador Nomura was empowered, according to this report, to demand: i) U.S.-British recognition of Manchukuo; 2) U.S.-British recognition of Japan's special position in North China. In return for this Japan would: 3) make peace with Chiang...
...Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's one-eyed Ambassador, busily pumped hands in Sumner Welles's waiting room, pumped a hand that swam into his vision from the blind side. It was the Negro attendant reaching for his hat. Next day China's Dr. Hu Shih, two-eyed but confused, made the same mistake, pumped the same hand in the same room...
...German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott and Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli both called on Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Mr. Matsuoka conferred with his chiefs of Military and Naval Affairs, while Emperor Hirohito received War Minister Eiki Tojo. A Government spokesman denied, as he must, a report that Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was seeking a neutrality pact in Washington...