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...past four years a whole school of vigorous, militant, aggressive young carp have appropriated the waters of Japanese politics. And none outshines whiskey-drinking, golf-playing, Cadillac-driving Hirosi Saito. Young Carp Saito, still only 48, came into the world the son of an untitled, inconspicuous translator of English at the Japanese Foreign Office.* He leaped his first waterfall when he landed in the Peers' College. There he dovetailed into a group of nationalistic-minded students who are now Japan's bright young leaders in the fighting services and Foreign Office, many holding posts today that were reserved...
...Saito prides himself on his U. S. ways, his "Americanese" ("made," he jokes, "in Japan"). In Washington he has staffed his Delano & Aldrich, neo-Georgian Embassy with what he believes are the closest Oriental approximations of U. S. "good fellows." His corps of 18 (the British have 15) is more numerous and harder-working than that of any other Embassy. Having observed the lobbying tactics of fellow-Washingtonians, shrewd Hirosi Saito spends most of his Embassy allowance for "representation" not on balls and champagne for Washington socialites but on highballs and beefsteak suppers for the Press. When he makes...
Although Ambassador Saito is the youngest envoy to represent Japan in this country, he is nevertheless regarded as the shrewdest one to come here. Not yet 50, he has already had a brilliant career as a diplomat, having been consul-general at New York and Seattle, Washington...
...Philadelphia last week newshawks, none of whom wrote shorthand, took down to the best of their abilities certain remarks by Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito, a fidgety and incessant smoker. They agreed that they had heard him say: "Japan will commit national suicide if necessary to pursue her plan of establishing peace in the Far East. She will pursue this policy if she has to fight both Great Britain and the United States and regardless of the whims of these two nations. Japan has only peace in mind. If we feel it necessary for our purpose of establishing peace...
Same day Ambassador Saito officially explained at his Embassy that he had not meant any such thing. But, as often happens with Oriental denials, it was obvious that His Excellency was splitting a hair. He claimed to have meant: "Great Britain and the United States will eventually understand our policy. If, however, the United States and Great Britain should fail to understand and should attempt forcibly to swerve our course, then Japan would be forced to fight...