Word: ott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after he saw the Emperor, Foreign Minister Matsuoka summoned German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, who was doubtless asked to explain Adolf Hitler's rather belittling reference to Yosuke Matsuoka in his proclamation of war. (Hitler: "I myself advised Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka that eased tension with Russia always was in hope of serving the cause of peace.") In Berlin Japanese Ambassador Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima called on Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop for the same purpose...
During the week German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott and Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli both called on Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Mr. Matsuoka conferred with his chiefs of Military and Naval Affairs, while Emperor Hirohito received War Minister Eiki Tojo. A Government spokesman denied, as he must, a report that Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was seeking a neutrality pact in Washington...
Adolf Hitler was moving fast to consolidate Europe for his grand offensive. But he did not neglect the rest of the world. In Tokyo Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka packed to go to Berlin by way of Moscow, preceded by Germany's Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott. On this trip Japan's part, if any, in the offensive will be settled. And so, perhaps, will the long-awaited Japanese-Russian non-aggression pact, which to Japan would mean Southward...
Germany's Ambassador to Japan, Major General Eugen Ott, rushed around to the Foreign Office to demand of Foreign Minister Matsuoka what he meant by letting down Japan's Axis partner while that partner was trying to promote a Russo-Japanese non-aggression pact. Yosuke Matsuoka mumbled an "explanation to the press." He had referred to the Thailand-French Indo-China dispute, which Japan was already mediating. "Of course," added the flustered Foreign Minister, "Japan would be happy to mediate any dispute if the opportunity presented itself, but the entertainment of such a peaceful desire was something different...
Meddling Through. Toasts were drunk in Tokyo last month, also to the future. German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, feared and respected by the Japanese as he does not fear and respect them, drank with Foreign Minister Kensuke Matsuoka, Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's special envoy Heinrich von Stahmer to the future of the three-way pact. But last week there was mostly a show of temper in Tokyo. The opening of the Burma Road...