Word: saito
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...assassination, has been bombed twice. Last week Count Makino surrendered to the unceasing pressure brought against him by the Army men, pleaded a bad case of neuritis, resigned as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. The Emperor gave the job to the man Makino suggested: Viscount Admiral Makoto Saito, 77, one-time Premier. This tough but mellow oldster with a portentous pair of jowls can talk as moderately as Makino, but in a pinch he usually knuckles under to the militarists...
...Excellency, Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador to the united States, has crystallised for our country and for the world the policies and purposes of his government in this book of speeches. It is probably the most valuable and important work of a Japanese statesman ever accomplished towards a better understanding of his country by the United States. It frankly and openly presents the case of a major power whose actions are seldom sympathized with and often condemned by unthinking men throughout America and Europe...
...volume of speeches, this document illumination a dark subject and a sore subject in contemporary history, this testimonial to the good faith of the most important power in eastern waters. Not even the most ardent anti Japanese trouble maker in this country can help but be convinced by ambassador Saito's disarming array of facts that Japan's only and chief desire is to attain and maintain the friendship and good will of the world towards...
...Divine Emperor, and he had placed the Son of Heaven in an attitude which made Japanese blood boil. What, Japanese wanted to know, was President Roosevelt going to do about it? A cablegram hurled from Tokyo with the urgency of a thunderbolt caught crinkly-eyed Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito at his U. S. country place in New Canaan, Conn., sent him scrambling back to Washington...
...Washington, where a good many State Departmenters were secretly pleased that the Japanese Government and Ambassador Saito found themselves in hot water, the Administration observed piously that it cannot interfere with the freedom of the U. S. Press. In the offices of Vanity Fair it was hoped for some hours that the State Department might send a bit of suggestion or advice, but mum to Vanity Fair were Secretary Hull and President Roosevelt...