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Descendant of a samurai (feudal military gentry) family, darling of the Army extremists, the old Baron was one of the first Japanese of high position to be labeled "Fascist." But during the last several years his views mellowed to the archconservatism of an elder statesman. He believes in friendship with the U.S. and Britain, favors a quick settlement of the four-year-old Sino-Japanese War, opposes a single totalitarian party, has balked against Axis alliances. So considerable is his influence on Prince Konoye that he has become known as the "Strong Man of the Cabinet...
Minister van Mook was a scholar raised to the rank of statesman. He came of sturdy stock (a great-grandfather marched to Moscow and back with Napoleon), was the son of two schoolteachers. Born in Semarang, Java, he was educated in Amsterdam, Delft, Leiden (and for a few months later on attended California's Stanford University). He is still proud of his American slang and of being a cover-to-cover reader of TIME. Back in the Indies, he became a civil servant, served a hitch as adviser to the Sultan of Jokyakarta. By 1931, when he decided...
...Spain-trained guerrilla artist who recently resigned his instructorship in the Home Guard because he considered the War Office too stodgy, wrote: "The British Army wants action. . . . We should hit Hitler now that he is busy." The News Chronicle headlined: TOO QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. The careful New Statesman and Nation editorialized: "If the invasion of the Continent is ever to be possible, today, when Germany's best fighters and bombers are fully engaged in the east, would seem to be the supremely suitable moment." The British censor released several photographs of British invasion barges, big enough...
...Oakland, Calif, high school 46 years ago Yosuke Matsuoka wrote in an essay: "If my country needs a statesman, I will be the statesman." He has been businessman, diplomat, foreign minister; always he has anticipated, with the mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist...
...leading his nation. . . ." At commencement exercises this week he handed Dr. Churchill's diploma to Noel Hall, British Minister to Washington, and eulogized to the Prime Minister by transatlantic radio: ". . . Our hearts speak out to England. . . . Our common cause is freedom. . . .Winston Churchill, no longer historian and statesman, but symbol of Britain aroused . . . America admires you. . . . May peace with freedom be your crowning work...