Word: shigenori
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...Moscow it was officially announced that Japanese Ambassador Shigenori Togo and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov had found a "community of views ... on the fundamental principles upon which a Soviet-Japanese trade agreement must be based." In recent Russian diplomacy, non-aggression pacts have followed trade agreements as faithfully as the little lamb trailed Mary...
From Moscow came word that Ambassador Shigenori Togo and Premier-Foreign Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotov had signed a truce. Outer Mongolia-Man-chukuo fighting would stop at once, border delimitations begin. With mutual kisses still wet on the unblushing cheeks of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the world jumped, too soon, to the conclusion that Japan and Russia would also make strange love. The Japanese soon announced that a non-aggression pact between Japan and Russia was "not under consideration." The truce was simpler than that. Russia had some important business in Poland, Japan in China-business so urgent that fighting...