Word: saionji
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Generals Expiate. Presently Prince Saionji, with all his vast experience and prestige, found himself last week virtually stumped. It had become clear that the Army assassinations of the week before proceeded from a grim resolve in the Army that the guidance of the Empire must not hereafter be by Japanese identified with maintaining either the present Capitalistic status quo in Japan or the present territorial status quo in Eastern Asia...
...Saionji's Ace. Against such a dire emergency, Prince Saionji has for many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History...
...Last of the Genro portentously advised His Majesty and withdrew; the Son of Heaven summoned Prince Konoye; the Prince drove from the Imperial Palace to the villa of Saionji; and finally Prince Konoye drove back to the Imperial Palace, where he communicated to the Divine Emperor this startling intimation: "I am unable to accept the task of Premier for I am in great doubt that I could tide the nation over the present crisis...
...first time in 86-year-old Prince Saionji's experience the Last of the Genro had made publicly ready to play a smashing trump and failed to get it down his sleeve. If the Fujiwara godling could not sit on Japan's lid last week, then who could...
...these brilliant youngsters the outstanding pair are Japan's Acting Foreign Minister of last week, Mr. Koki Hirota, and his equally cocky friend and protege, Mr. Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador in Washington. Old Saionji in his infinitely ripe wisdom next advised the Son of Heaven to call young Hirota...