Word: sadao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister of Education, to whip up the "spiritual mobilization" of the country, Premier Konoye appointed egg-bald, creamy-voiced General Baron Sadao Araki, fiery War Minister during the Manchurian campaign. At the extremity of the "extremists," General Araki is an open advocate of a campaign to strike at Russia while she is internally weak and ram her out of Vladivostok. Appointed as Finance Minister was white-haired, white-mustached, Harvard-educated Seihin Ikeda, former managing director of the vast Mitsui industrial empire...
Japan's most potent Jingo, Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, onetime War Minister and boss of the Army's "Ginger Group," had glorious news last week from Shanghai where a Japanese squadron is commanded by his brother Rear Admiral Sadasuke Araki. The glorious news: somebody had murdered a Japanese Marine in full uniform near the Japanese Naval headquarters. At this news in utter panic rich & poor Chinese alike fled from Chapei in the native quarter of Shanghai to the International Settlement which proved safe in 1932 when the Japanese blew Chapei to bloody smithereens. If the Araki Brothers were...
...General Sadao Araki is Japan's champion sabre-rattler and No. 1 Militarist, but Japanese like to point out in his favor that he is personally frail-looking, mild-mannered, small, ascetic, "a mystic." Araki himself reconciles these contradictions in his character with his favorite maxim, "Be greedy only in mind." To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister. When he was ill, Japanese teachers collected sen from their schoolchildren to buy Araki medicine. Last...
Said General Sadao Araki: "I am now recovered, thanks to you children. Every sen of your money was spent in building war planes and making ammunition. Hitherto Japan has been following the lead of Western nations. However, the time has come for Japan to lead the world. Have you ever seen a snake with two heads? No, but you may, and I beseech you to be courageous when...
...Heaven read the proclamation opening the 67th session of the Diet, which promptly recessed. When it finally gets to business at month's end, it will presumably swallow its medicine: Japan's all-time high in defense budgets, a monster achievement of the military clique which Sadao Araki heads...