Word: saito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian-born Cleveland oilman and war veteran put in a long distance call for Japanese Ambassador Saito in Washington, got him on the line, pleaded with him to keep the peace, was assured there would be no Japanese-Russian war. Since then Cleveland's Abraham ("Abe") Pickus has been busy telephoning world diplomats, dictators and statesmen in a vigorous one-man campaign to bring about international amity. Although Chamberlain, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito of Japan and many another bigwig refused to talk, Veteran Pickus once was put through to Spain's Franco, another time to Hitler, whom he promptly...
Terming the Panay bombing "a shocking blunder," Ambassador Saito said that there is "no compensation which mortal man can make that is adequate for the families bereft...
...When the showdown comes, the world will see that Japan has no unreasonable ambitions," declared Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador, interviewed in his office at the Washington embassy during the vacation...
...said that his country was doing all in its power to prevent repetition of such an event as the Panay affair. "The naval officer who was in command of the aircraft squadron in Shanghai has been dismissed and recalled home," Saito revealed. "All other necessary steps are being and will be taken so that guarantees of safety will be assured all foreign persons and interests in the future...
...great debt which Japan owes to Boston," Saito declared. "Many of the makers of modern Japan had their education at Harvard." He mentioned in particular Baron Kikkawa, who wrote of his education here, "Had I lived those years in Japan, I would have been surrounded by so many attendants that I should not have learned to depend upon myself so much . . . I recommend my children to cultivate the spirit of independence so to prepare themselves as to be able to stand in the world without the aid of others...