Word: matsuoka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During a recent Diet session Japan's spouting little Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka seemed to assign to the Asia of the future its widest boundaries yet. Said he: "We Japanese have a heaven-sent right to settle in some part of the United States climatically healthful and enjoyable...
Legalistically, the issue is this: if the U.S. convoys war materials to Britain, is this an "attack" on Germany, the nation whom Japan has agreed to defend in case of attack? Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, reported Correspondent Tolischus, thinks...
...Cabinet accepted the pact; the Privy Council, sitting in the presence of the Son of Heaven, approved it unanimously. Next evening Emperor Hirohito sanctioned it. The press hinted broadly that Mr. Matsuoka should next go to the U.S., and perhaps to Great Britain, to try to win Greater East Asia by negotiation...
...person whose judgment is greatly influenced by personal impressions, Foreign Minister Matsuoka may well translate his personal impressions of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin into Japanese foreign policy. Last week Japan learned just what those impressions had been. Colonel Yat-suji Nagai, a member of the Foreign Minister's suite, told of Matsuoka's meeting with Hitler...
Ambassador Grew did what he could, but Young accuses some other members of the U.S. Embassy staff of not pushing his case. When Young got tired of waiting, his wife requested William Randolph Hearst to intervene. Hearst cabled Matsuoka and other big shots. Young's trial was called at once...