Word: makoto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still other young mustards with machine guns had by this time burst into the bed chamber of Viscount Makoto Saito, Lord Keeper of the sacred Privy Seal of His Imperial Majesty the Son of Heaven, Emperor Hirohito. Old Saito had been a valiant admiral and from 1932 to 1934 was Premier of Japan. Two machine guns now poked their snouts in his direction and youthful mustards were at the triggers...
...marked for assassination, has been bombed twice. Last week Count Makino surrendered to the unceasing pressure brought against him by the Army men, pleaded a bad case of neuritis, resigned as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. The Emperor gave the job to the man Makino suggested: Viscount Admiral Makoto Saito, 77, one-time Premier. This tough but mellow oldster with a portentous pair of jowls can talk as moderately as Makino, but in a pinch he usually knuckles under to the militarists...
...infinite wisdom the chief naval treaties to which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with the U. S. and Great Britain. Though addressed to His Majesty, the sea dogs' demands were really aimed at the Premier, a sea dog himself. Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito. He promptly invoked a convenient fiscal scandal (the Vice Minister of Finance had been in jail on charges of bribery since mid-May) and the entire Cabinet resigned, leaving everything in the lap of 85-year-old Prince Saionji...
Japanese politicians have taken over the respectable Occidental practice of accepting financial support from Big Business, but the new custom still smells rank in old Japanese nostrils. Twice scandal has invaded the Cabinet of harassed Premier Makoto Saito, smoked out two of its members. It seemed only a question of time until the great Bank of Taiwan scandal should smear the Cabinet. Last week...
Wrinkled 85-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), had the same two eminent callers again & again last fortnight. They were harassed Premier Viscount Makoto Saito and his Minister of War, General Senjuro Hayashi. Discord, scandal and sickness have jolted five men out of Saito's Cabinet. Hayashi wanted to be the sixth. Cause was his younger brother Yukichi who had been adopted as a child by the family of Shirakami and taken that name. The General felt that he was still responsible for his brother's acts, whatever his name, and Yukichi...