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Screamed one of the mustards: "Premier Admiral Keisuke Okada, we have come to execute you! Politics must be purified...
...nothing for certain, was as much out of contact with Joseph Clark Grew as though he had been U. S. Ambassador to the Moon instead of Ambassador to Japan. The Department busied itself writing a note to express the grief of the Roosevelt Administration at the death of Premier Okada...
...descended from father to son for the past 2,500 years, and if it were U. S. credo that First President George Washington was the son of Almighty God, things would have been a good deal easier this week for the Japanese Cabinet of terrified old Premier Keisuke Okada. For months Japanese jingoes have been trying to upset the Cabinet with charges that it has insufficiently defended the sanctity of the Divine Emperor (TIME, March 18 et seq.). Last week they were able to scream until Tokyo's welkin rang that the Cabinet had failed to prevent the introduction...
...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...
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...