Word: ko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo, Ko Ishii, spokesman for Japan's Information Bureau, was explaining Japan's importance another way. "It is almost certain that the U.S. will enter the European war on the British side . . . Japan as a partner in the Tripartite Pact remains dominant on the other side of the Pacific and is playing an important role as a strong deterrent...
...Ko Ishii is a pink-cheeked, affable, stogy-smoking diplomat who was once (1929-30) Japanese Consul in New York. Last December he became spokesman for the Japanese Cabinet, replacing the somewhat less affable Foreign Office spokesman, slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, short, swart Yakichiro Suma. Last week Diplomat Ishii talked the Japanese Foreign Office into a lot of trouble...
...scare, were dismayed at the length it had gone. To their protestations of peaceful intentions U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles coldly replied that the U. S. was interested in deeds, not words, and Congress voted an appropriation to fortify Samoa and Guam. At this point Ko Ishii bustled into his press conference and suggested that the U. S. restrict its activities to the Western Hemisphere. Then...
...words of Japanese spokesmen were full of meaning, in their contradictions as well as their consistencies. For the Cabinet, Spokesman Ko Ishii purred: "We do not see the imminence of war in the Pacific." For the Army,. Major Kunio Akiyama barked: "Japan will not disturb the waves of the Pacific, but if strong pressure is applied she will be compelled to take certain measures." For the chauvinists, Tokyo Kokumin shrilled that U. S. activity in the Pacific was "approaching a state of war." For the realists, Japanese correspondents in French Indo-China stated: "Japan will move against Anglo-American interests...