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First the Japanese proposed sending as negotiator General Kuniaki Koiso, who, after a previous visit to the Indies, had publicly made some abusive remarks about the Dutch. The Dutch said he would not be acceptable. The Japanese sent instead a Cabinet Minister, Ichizo Kobayashi of Commerce and Industry. To receive him fittingly, Queen Wilhelmina cabled from London raising Hubertus J. Van Mook. Director of the Department of Economic Affairs, to the rank of Cabinet Minister of the Dutch Government-in-Exile...
...after thinking for a long time, "will be renovated." Everyone knew what he meant. Other less discreet Cabinet Ministers had indulged in a chorus of blatantly tough speeches. Japan, like Italy, was aboard the bandwagon of triumph, and for the first time Japanese statesmen openly aired their fantastic ambitions. Kobayashi (Commerce) declared: "A high degree of State efficiency must be achieved through hitching ourselves to the Italo-German Axis." Yasui (Home & Welfare) boasted: "We cannot doubt that the day will soon come when Japan can share the world with Germany and Italy...
...Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Grand Fleet, stalwart Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, 56, will probably be on the bridge of his flagship Mutsu when next summer she leads nine other battleships, three aircraft carriers, eight heavy cruisers, 79 destroyers and 67 submarines to their rendezvous just north of the Equator. A trim, polite seadog who is fond of bridge, Admiral Kobayashi is well known in Washington where he once served as naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy...
...Kellog, D. E. Kobayashi, P. P. Krotzer, A. L. Kuposky...