Word: masanao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roused by these wrathy words, the Japanese learned with satisfaction last week that Masanao Hanihara is likely soon to succeed Kentaro Ochiai as Japanese Ambassador to Italy. There his smile, his wit, his vigor may perhaps charm Il Duce. Concurrently Premier Wakatsuki reshuffled his Cabinet, appointed the following politicians to the offices named: Viscount K. Inouye, Railroads; C. Machida, Agriculture; M. Hamaguchi, Home Affairs...
...Appointed Ambassador to the U. S. (TIME, March 3, 1923), Masanao Hanihara, moonfaced, perpetually smiling, became irksome to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, by championing with great persistence the rights of Nippon. While the Immigration Bill was pending before the Senate (TIME, April 28, 1924, CONGRESS), Ambassador Hanihara, an experienced diplomat, but goaded to extremities by the Senate's anti-Japanese predilections, staked all upon a "diplomatic threat" to the Secretary of State that "grave consequences" might follow the enactment of the Japanese exclusion clause of the bill. The Senate, reacting violently and negatively to the Hanihara note...
...Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., smiling Masanao Hanihara, said: "Americans have neither the time nor interest to study the problem, and are led by the anti-Japanese to believe that Japan desires mainly the opportunity of sending vast numbers of immigrants to colonize the Pacific Coast. Such is not the case, but the task of making the American public realize the truth is enormous...
...Tsuneo Matsudaira presented the President with a pleasing speech and letters of credence as Ambassador from Japan. In reply, the President referred to "your predecessor, Mr. Masanao Hanihara, who so congenially and helpfully represented your Government among us"?a remark perilously near a lie or an opinion by Stephen Leacock...
Ambassadors are exchangeable commodities. When Washington announced (TIME, Sept. 8, NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that it was sending Edgar Addison Bancroft to Tokyo as U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Tokyo scouted about to find someone to send to Washington as Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. in succession to smiling Ambassador Masanao Hanihara...