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...revealed the drift of an exchange of notes with the Imperial Government which he had asked the Japanese to keep secret and which they had kept secret. The striking part of Mr. Stimson's revelation was that he had received assurances not only from Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara but also through him further assurances from Japanese War Minister General Jiro Minanmi and from the Chief of the Japanese General Staff. These assurances were such, declared Mr. Stimson, that he could not "understand" reports of the Japanese advance against...
Reds Waiting. Roaming Mr. Chen has been at Moscow as well as Tokyo. If Baron Shidehara welcomed last week the advent of a Chinese realist with whom he could negotiate, the Japanese Foreign Minister did not welcome a possibility that Mr. Chen may have obtained promises of Soviet backing...
...Premeditated, Unprovoked, Ruth-less." In four notes (not one of which was answered) the Chinese Government besought the Japanese Government last week to announce when Japanese troops will be withdrawn from Manchuria. Tokyo branded these Chinese notes "ultimatums." Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara filled the diplomatic welkin with notes and explanations repeating his familiar points: 1) Japan again demanded that the Chinese Government (although cut off by Japanese bombing from Manchuria) should put an instant stop to anti-Japanese propaganda in Manchuria and to boycotting by Chinese of Japanese goods in Manchuria and elsewhere in China; 2) the Baron repeated...
While Ambassador to the U. S. (1919-22) Samurai Shidehara was made a Baron (1920) by the Son of Heaven who thus equipped him with sufficient social prestige to represent Japan fittingly at the Washington Conference (1921-22). Since then he has been several times Foreign Minister, served as Acting Premier (TIME, Nov. 24) when his old friend and classmate at the Tokyo Imperial University, Premier Yuko Hamaguchi ("The Lion") was skewered by a would-be assassin's dagger and lingered on to die last month...
Today Baron & Baroness Shidehara delight chiefly in their smart sons, Michitaro (29), Shigeo (26), and in their unassuming, rock-gardened week-end home at Kamakura on the eastern tip of crescent-shaped Sagami Bay. On the western tip, thrillingly visible to the loyal Shideharas. is the summer home of the sublime Emperor Hirohito, 125th descendant of the Sun Goddess...