Word: kurusu
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...Clipper this week is a special Japanese envoy, natty, handsome Saburo Kurusu...
...very best indication that Japan was still shy of war was, after all, Pinch Hitter Kurusu's long, sudden hop. For the most grievous pinch in Japanese history, Japan had at least picked its likeliest pinch hitter. Fifty-four-year-old Saburo Kurusu had just about the maximum sense of the American temper possible to a patriotic, native-born Japanese. Known as the most Westernized of Japanese diplomats, he speaks English well, is an after-dinner wit in several languages. His diplomatic career has taken him to China, the Philippines, Hawaii, Chile, Italy, Greece, New York...
...Brussels Ambassador Kurusu was suspected of being as anti-Axis as his American wife, who was Alice Little of Chicago. He was a member of the swank Circle Gaulois, to which no German belongs. In Berlin it was Ambassador Kurusu's duty to sign Japan's Axis Pact...
...first emissary to the U.S. and Europe. He was Takenouchi, Lord of Shimitsuke, who sailed from Yokohama on the British war ship Odin in January 1862, charged with postponing for five years the opening of Japanese ports to foreign vessels. Takenouchi was successful. Last week world-traveled Saburo Kurusu may have wished that he could regain for Japan the U.S. trade contacts that Takenouchi had postponed. But that was up to Pinch Hitter Kurusu's bosses...
...signers were Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano for Italy, Ambassador Saburo Kurusu for Japan, Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csáky for Hungary. Adolf Hitler was not present in person, but he was close by in the Imperial Hotel, where he held a happy levee after the signing was over...