Word: okada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold lira to the last drop of Italian blood. Since then nothing has occurred to convince the Dictator that any other statesman who inflates, debases or trifles with currency values is not dead wrong. Last week with U. S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Baldwin and Japanese Premier Okada all wrong in Benito Mussolini's opinion, he found it excruciatingly difficult to keep on being right. Cut-rate dollars, cut-rate pounds, cut-rate yen and the rest of the Great Powers' goods-dumping moves have provided such keen competition for Italian exports that not even the most...
Cabinet's Birthday. Meanwhile in Japan the exact and hotly disputed nature of the Emperor Hirohito's godhood remained a major issue which still threatened to upset the Government of bustling old Admiral Keisuke Okada. Somewhat to his enemies' amazement the present stop-gap Cabinet rounded out a full year in office last week, celebrated with a champagne lunch...
Retired Admiral Okada was picked by Japan's great Elder Statesman Prince Saionji because he was just enough of a patriot to satisfy the fanatic Army & Navy, yet had enough common sense to make Japanese bankers & businessmen feel that they would not be crushed by utterly ruinous taxes to pay Japan's bills for the impractical, grandiose conquest of too much of China (TIME, July 16, 1934). Once in office Premier Okada yielded to the exhibitionist bug which bites so many Japanese. He let himself be photographed with the crazy old camera and the prim old garden plants...
...will readily admit to not believing the official legend that their Emperor is descended from the Sun Goddess. "We regard our Emperor with the respect Catholics feel for their Pope," they often say in private. Yet last week in the Japanese Parliament, sturdy old Premier Admiral Okada was put sternly on the record. Did he or did he not, demanded Baron Kiyozumi Inouye, hold with Japan's eminent Constitutional authority Dr. Tatsuki Minobe who has just created a nation-wide furor by alluding to the Son-of-Heaven as "an organ of the Constitution...
Instantly fire-eating patriots organized the Organ Theory Destruction League with shouts of "Death to Dr. Minobe!" and last week they were only too eager to put Premier Okada on the spot. Cried the Admiral-Premier: "When I contemplate Japan's august national structure I am overwhelmed with awe! Of course I do not agree with the Minobe theory and I will carefully consider what my government can do about...