Word: shideharas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tired. 68, and getting deaf. Premier Saito picked Koki Hirota to succeed him. Observers called it "simply the substitution of a vigorous and unspent man for one who is weary." Since the growing power of Japanese militarists forced the resignation of the last truly international-minded Foreign Minister, Kijuro Shidehara, in 1931, the basis of Japan's foreign policy has not changed one inch. She is bound to make herself master of the Far East, peaceably if possible, by force if necessary. But the Japanese are a polite people who search constantly for a foreign minister...
Sick abed last week lay a fourth Peace Man, Baron Shidehara, who as Japanese Foreign Minister tried to keep the Japanese Army from rushing into Manchuria. That Baron Shidehara was poisoned is Tokyo rumor, may be untrue...
...year ago the U. S. had four great and potent friends in Japan: Premier Hama-guchi, his successor Wakatsuki, able bow-&-arrow man, Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, the "Roosevelt of Japan," Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye. Premier Hamaguchi was shot by a fanatic, died a lingering death. Premier Wakat-suki was driven out of office by Japanese militarists. Baron Shidehara dared oppose the invasion of Shanghai fortnight ago (TIME, Feb. 15) and lay gravely ill at his home last week. And last week grey-templed, precise Junnosuke Inouye drove to a political rally in Tokyo...
...before Peace Man Inouye was assassinated the fact became known that rich Japanese in Tokyo and in Manhattan were betting at odds of three to two that the Seiyukai (War) Party of Premier Inu-kai would lose the election of Feb. 20 to the Minseito (Peace) Party of Inouye, Shidehara, Wakatsuki...
Even three weeks ago such an article would not have been allowed to appear. With at least one point in the article Baron Shidehara's successor, Foreign Minister Yoshizawa, seemed in agreement last week: China was not a power to be considered in any way. After a long week- end conference the Foreign Office announced to the Western Powers its new plan for China: The five most important Chinese cities, Tientsin, Tsingtao. Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, were to be taken over by the Powers, who would establish around them neutral zones 15 to 20 miles wide from which all Chinese soldiers...