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...morning last week, cutaway-clad Tokutaro Kimura, Tokyo's opposite number to U.S. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, strode onto the flat, tiled roof of Japan's yellow brick Pentagon, past Japanese army, navy and air force officers snapped to attention, and said: "Peace cannot be attained with folded arms . . . It is the duty of our country to complete the arrangements through which it could defend itself with its own hands." With that, Japan officially began rearming...
...seven were: Hideki Tojo, wartime Premier of Japan; General Kenji Doihara, who had engineered the Mukden Incident in 1931; General Heitaro Kimura, former commander in Manchuria; General Iwane Matsui, responsible for the rape of Nanking; General Akira Muto, former chief of staff in the Philippines; ex-Premier (1936-37) Koki Hirota; ex-War Minister Seishiro Itagaki...
...there are two ways to get to the top. Be a wonderful player, which you cannot be; the other, study." Mercer Beasley, handicapped by poor eye sight, chose study. In 1928 he became coach at Tulane. Since then he has acquired an elaborate methodology, a Persian cat named Baron Kimura, such prestige that the Davis Cup team last spring wired him: "We wish there was some way of taking you with us we feel this would give us at least 20 per cent better chance of winning. . . ." Some Beasleyisms...
Baron Kentaro Kaneko 2nd, L.'78, h.'99, gave his last lecture, on "The Situation in the Far East," in Sanders Theatre last evening. B. S. Kimura, Gr.Dv., president of the Japan Club, presided, and the speaker was introduced by Professor J. H. Beale...
Baron Kentaro Kaneko, 2nd, L.'78, h.'99, former Minister of Justice, and one of Japan's most prominent statesmen, will lecture at 8 o'clock this evening in Sanders Theatre on "The Situation in the Far East." B. S. Kimura, Gr.Dv., president of the Japan Club, under whose auspices the lecture is given, will preside. The floor will be reserved for the members of the Japan Club and their invited guests, and admission will be by ticket only; but the first and second balconies will be open to the public...