Word: shideharas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army v. Shidehara. Japanese militarists roared for revenge. Not so Foreign Minister Baron Kijuro Shidehara and other members of the Wakatsuki Cabinet in Japan. They realize that Japan, a potent member of the League of Nations, must keep in Europe's good graces. But ever since the fall of the Tanaka Government in 1929, last exponent of the mailed fist in China, Japanese militarists have been gunning for pacific Baron Shidehara. The execution of Captain Nakamura was what they have been waiting for. Last week General Jiro Tamon, commandant at Mukden,* and other Japanese officers simply took matters into...
Minister's home. Baron Shidehara announced that Japanese troops would be withdrawn from the captured Manchurian cities "at the earliest possible moment...
...member of the "House of Mitsui," richest in Japan) was stabbed in the arm with a fountain pen. A dagger flashed. In the wild melee several heads and hands were slashed. Other heads grew lumps after the police poured in. When the fight first began, Acting Prime Minister Baron Shidehara was in a nearby room. Without an instant's hesitation he walked out of the Diet Building surrounded by his six new plainclothesmen (all jiu-jitsu experts), climbed into his limousine and drove home...
...genuinely divine. Whether they believe it or not, Japanese statesmen have to act as though they believed that the Emperor is all-wise, can no more do wrong than can Jehovah. This being so, Japanese who oppose the London Naval Treaty became absolutely boiling mad last week when Baron Shidehara in defending the Treaty said: "Well, do you suppose the Emperor would have signed it if it was not good...
...course Baron Shidehara instantly corrected himself. He is no more supposed to drag the Emperor's name into debate than is Mr. Hoover to call on Jehovah in his political battles. "I made a slip of the tongue," apologized Baron Shidehara. "I withdraw...