Word: shidehara
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...Baron is short, thickset, determined. Keen eyes peer from behind heavy round spectacles. His broad stubby mustache, his quick big-toothed smile are more than vaguely Rooseveltian. Years ago as a Japanese diplomat Baron Shidehara knew the Rough Rider President, recalls him warmly as "my friend." Asked recently point blank, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Roosevelt?" Japan's Foreign Minister replied with crisp satisfaction, ''Yes, someone told me that in Washington on my first visit...
Famed as a man of peace because he forced Japanese ratification last year of the London Naval Treaty despite terrific opposition, Baron Shidehara kept the cables to Washington busy last week, finally obtained from Secretary Stimson what amounted to a carte blanche for the Japanese activities in Manchuria?activities which the Chinese Government denounced in their cables to Washington last week as "free acts of war . . . still being committed by Japanese troops...
...Foreign Minister, Baron Shidehara whitewashed as best he could the indiscreet gloating of Japan's War Minister at "secession movements'' in Manchuria. He despatched to the Chinese Government and to the world press a note in which he said: "The Japanese Government has prohibited all its nationals from assisting independence movements and is confident that no Japanese is taking part in these movements...
Observers noted that Japan's Shidehara had thus completely boxed the diplomatic compass, done all an able diplomat could to create an odor of sanctity, yet had left Japan free to take full advantage of whatever situation her militarists are able to develop in Manchuria...
Crescent's Tip, Petite Masako, Baroness Shidehara is an Iwasaki, daughter of Japan's No. 2 house of merchant princes (Mitsubishi), the famed Mitsui being No. 1. When she married Diplomat Shidehara he was no baron though he belonged to a Samurai (feudal sword bearer) family. In the past 30 years he has held diplomatic posts almost everywhere, but got his real leg up to greatness as Chief of the Telegraph Section of the Foreign Office, a key post because the holder has access to all Foreign Office codes & secrets, and secrets play a major role in the devious statecraft...