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Died. Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, 64, brusque, violent, onetime Commander in Chief of the Japanese Grand Fleet, strategist of Japanese submarine warfare, 79th Japanese admiral pronounced dead since May 27; in Japan...
Although a disciple of the violently anti-foreign Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, Shimada refrained then, as usual, from rattling his tongue. He sedulously avoided embroilment in domestic Jap politics. He won the confidence of Jap Army leaders because he had the reputation of being "regular Navy"-only more so-and minding his business...
...Shanghai branch includes Messrs. Sasaki, Kanaya and similar personalities known to every foreign correspondent. Jap navy members include such prominent figures as Admirals Takahashi, Suetsugu, Hasegawa, Yamamoto and Sekine. The head of the Aikoku Meirinkai, a powerful five-million-man military reserve organization, and the element which will form the home front army which we must fight when we invade Japan, is the notorious Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Seigo Nakano, who was a next-door neighbor of mine, is a director of the organization. From the second floor of our house, we could see over the high bamboo fence into...
...Grim, fire-eating Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, perhaps the leading naval source of Japan's present policies...
...position to fight. But while the Japanese played for time, Minister van Mook was the one who got it - and used it. When the negotiations ended in a complete Japanese defeat last June, thanks to Hubertus van Mook the Dutch had had time to get ready. Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu felt that Japan's fail ure to grab the Indies was unforgivable...