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...Freedom. The new Premier was slight, aging (73) Baron Kijuro Shidehara, former Ambassador to the U.S. and one of Japan's few surviving liberal lead ers. Said he: "I will do my best to lead the nation back to self-respect. . . ." His Cabinet included no outright warmakers, no great statesmen of any kind. One of his Government's first measures: abolition of bayonet and jujitsu drill...
...years Frederick Moore served the Japanese government as adviser on international affairs. Seven ambassadors to Washington-Shidehara, Hanihara, Mat-sudaira, Debuchi, Saito, Horinouchi, Nomura-worked with his assistance. He was a member of the Japanese delegation which went to the League of Nations to argue Japan's case for the invasion of Manchuria. When Matsuoka, the delegation's head; insolently marched out of the League Assembly, he was followed by all his fellow delegates save Frederick Moore...
...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...
...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...