Word: nomura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks Chungking has been worried by the Hull-Nomura conversations. Last month Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned U.S. Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss to his mountain cottage behind the Yangtze bluffs, asked for information. Ambassador Gauss, having none, could say nothing. Later, when President Roosevelt told the world that the U.S. Navy would sink any Nazi raider molesting shipping in the western Atlantic, Chinese radio operators strained at their earphones to hear one word about China or the Pacific. They heard none. Chungking censors sup pressed Washington dispatches reporting that the U.S. was considering Japanese claims to north and central China...
There were other signs that Japan was licking her chops over Russia. In Washington the "exploratory conversations" between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura slowed down, principally over Japan's unwillingness to commit herself against further adventures. Fresh from a tour of southern French Indo-China, Correspondent Leland Stowe reported that Japan held that country with too small forces for offensive operations to the south...
...Shanghai hostilities of 1932, in which he commanded the Japanese forces. Here he lost his right eye, but not in battle. At a review in celebration of the Emperor's birthday a Korean patriot tossed a bomb into the grandstand. The grandstand blew up. Admiral Nomura was pocked but still alive. His first glass eye was presented to him by the Empress...
Every morning Ambassador Nomura gets up at seven and washes the glass eye he plans to wear that day. Then he reads the papers, studies reports, receives guests, often goes out to lunch, makes any necessary diplomatic calls, then indulges in his favorite pastime: "I am old man. I enjoy only driving. Around Washington, very nice. I think everywhere park. I went several times to Gettysburg. I go often to Mount Vernon, not only number one road, but here, there, and suburbs also...
...Admiral is a naval man and so not very literary. But once in a while he reads a book in the evening. His favorite is the military strategy of Sun Tzu, the Chinese Clausewitz. Sun Tzu's first precept is one that Kichisaburo Nomura especially relishes. Ironically, it is also often on the lips of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Also-and this is why Admiral Nomura's hopeful mission seems doomed to failure-it is the unspoken precept of the U.S. State Department. The Admiral's translation...