Word: shigeru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seat, with blood gushing from his middle was 51-year-old, baldish Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China, one of her smartest & youngest diplomats. His back was broken; he had been hit in the liver. So ended his errand: to visit Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe at Shanghai to present one of those peace-plans that the British Government is tireless in proposing. It was not to the Japanese Ambassador that Sir Hughe was rushed by the rest of his party (all uninjured) but to the Country Hospital in Shanghai's International Settlement, where...
Still hunting for a last minute compromise that might avert a major conflict Shigeru Kawagoe, Japanese Ambassador to China, hustled to Shanghai, refused to speak to any but Japanese newspaper men. Finally he issued a statement...
With his patience at breaking point, Chinese Foreign Minister Chang Chun summoned Japanese Ambassador Shigeru...
...Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry in the Chinese provinces of Manchuria, Jehol, East Hopei and Northern Chahar. The point of this uproarious Chinese joke could not entirely escape even glum Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe upon whom it was sprung with the utmost Chinese decorum-for Mr. Kawagoe well knows that the areas specified are precisely those which Japanese soldiers already dominate and have detached or are trying to detach from China...
...months, but inter nationally more important was the fresh Japanese threat to British trade and British loans guaranteed by Chinese customs collections. In Tientsin last week was hulking, hook-nosed Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the British Government since 1932. Around to Japanese Consul General Shigeru Kawagoe (now Ambassador) he rushed to demand the end of Japanese smuggling into North China. Sucking his teeth politely, Consul General Kawagoe countered with comments on the thriving smuggling trade from British Hongkong to Canton...