Word: kichisaburo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly a Japanese spokesman made another peaceful statement. In the elaborate Japanese Embassy, Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura leaned back in his chair before more than 50 reporters and talked affably for 45 minutes about Japan's policy, about her indifference to U. S. improvement of the harbor of Guam, about the absence of Japanese desire to seize any territory. But even Admiral Nomura would not deny that Japan might fight to gain her ends. And the new Ambassador confessed that he found the U. S. atmosphere not so favorable as he had hoped when he left Tokyo...
Washington and Moscow. In Washington last week arrived Japan's new Ambassador, Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, who had been greeted warmly in Hawaii by Admiral James 0. Richardson, but had found his reception chillier as he traveled east. President Roosevelt greeted him as "my old friend," but wore an air of utmost gravity. At his press conference the President made no effort to conceal the seriousness of U. S.-Japanese relations. The U. S., he indicated, might be "forced" into war in the Pacific. Yet how much it would take to force the U. S. into war, even the President...
...such an atmosphere Japan's new Ambassador to the U. S., one-eyed Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, sailed for San Francisco with six glass eyes and a three-point policy. The policy: 1) Japan wall stick to the alliance with Germany and Italy; 2) Japan will be boss of the Far East; 3) if the U. S. will accept Points 1 and 2, Japan will try to be friends...
...diplomatic wing, last week's moves were also conservative. Following the appointment of one-eyed, genial Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura as Ambassador to the U. S.. the Government elicited from the Army and Navy promises that their extremists would do nothing to embarrass the Admiral in his efforts to win the U. S. back to friendship...
...hearty Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura called on the Emperor last week, then made ready for his new mission as Ambassador to the U. S., where during World War I he was the popular, card-playing naval attaché of a friendly second-rate power. Things have changed since then. Every influential Japanese newspaper last week regarded Ambassador Nomura's mission as hopeless. Said Tokyo's Miyako: "The United States is disturbing our gigantic task of constructing a new East Asia." Said Hochi: "Sending an Ambassador to Washington is like ordering a man on horseback to charge a wall." Said...