Word: osumi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest, fierce indignation boiled up at Japanese Naval bases, scared the Government into forbidding the Press to print news of what was happening in Naval circles. Tokyo tingled with rumors that Naval hotheads were plotting fresh acts of terror to force out mild Naval Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi. Fire- eating Vice-Admiral Suetsugu, commander of the 2nd Naval Squadron, was supposed to be the plotters' candidate...
With mutiny in the air, Naval Minister Osumi had to call on the greatest living hero of the Russo-Japanese War, grizzled old Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo, to join him in an appeal for discipline. To all Naval yards and stations Minister Osumi manifestoed: "Fleet Admiral Count Togo has just sent us a message concerning the necessity for Navy men to preserve mental composure, being prudent as to their utterances and conduct and ever remaining loyal to their duties. . . . The time is an extraordinary one and we ask you to redouble your efforts in loyal service...
...amity between Japan and her three great neighbors-the United States, Russia and China." He promised the world to work for an arbitration treaty with the U. S. He promised his countrymen to work for "reasonable revision" of the Washington and London naval treaties. The Navy Minister, Admiral Mineo Osumi, also sounded off last week: "We are dissatisfied with present limitations and will demand a change of ratios at the next conference...
...League. For good measure the War Office spokesman said that Japan would intensify her offensive to take Jehol about the time the Assembly is expected to vote on the Report. Japan planned also to withdraw from the Geneva Disarmament Conference's "hostile atmosphere." Minister of the Navy Mineo Osumi said, "While we shall not challenge others, we shall accept the challenge of others...
...Pacific, two can play as well as fight. Last month Japan revealed that she was at work planning naval maneuvers that match Fleet Problem No. 14 in size and importance, send cold chills down the spines of U. S. strategists. The Japanese Grand Fleet, Naval Minister Osumi announced, is going "southward of the islands composing the territory of The Empire" in August instead of October. This statement was taken to mean that battle practice will be held among the Caroline and Marshall Islands which Japan took under mandate from Germany after the War. In that event Guam will...