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...even louder talk about a "Greater East Asia." The Axis Pact of a year ago brought the militarists still more kudos. As if to symbolize the militarists' ten-year rise to power, their greatest single opponent, the Emperor's most respected personal adviser, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, died at 91. The Army topped off its glorious decade with its Indo-China grab...
...mountainside in Kwangtung Province last week a Japanese naval plane crashed, killing bull-necked Admiral Baron Mineo Osumi, 64, Japan's Chief War Councilor. Known in Japan as a liberal influence second only to the late Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, Admiral Osumi was nevertheless also a stout advocate of the Japanese Navy's southward urge to empire. At week's end Chungking said that the plane had been shot down by guerrilla machine gunners, that the wreckage had yielded papers showing that Admiral Osumi was flying toward Hainan Island, off the south China coast, there...
Last week a little old man died in Japan. He was respectfully mourned in his own country, but out across the world his passing was recognized as the passing of an era. Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 91, last of the Genro, or Elder Statesmen, was also the last representative of the age in Japan which was dedicated to what today's Japanese call "dangerous thoughts"-the age of Liberalism...
...Japanese. In his character were the seeds of present-day Japan. A story is told that one day in his youth in Paris he was drinking in a bistro. Spirits ran high. Accidentally he broke a window. A French waiter grew angry and told him to pay up. Kimmochi Saionji, gentleman of Japan, broke several more windows in the place, paid for them all. Then he haughtily commanded the waiter to wrap up the pieces of glass in a package, took the package under his arm and stalked out, head high...
...children's shoes, humbly begged a short period of reflection. The period was as short as he is, for Marquis Kido's mind was all made up. So was the Emperor's mind, the Army's mind. Elder (90-year-old) Statesman Kimmochi Saionji's mind, even, amazingly, the people's mind. Such unanimity was certainly a new phenomenon for Japan. The obvious choice: Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Japan's weak-bodied, weak-willed Strong Man (TIME, July...