Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emperor Hirohito's signing of the Kellogg Treaty (see above) had grave and unexpected results last week. Almost without warning it was announced that the Conservative Cabinet of Baron Giichi Tanaka would resign...
Realizing that this was a purely technical point, that there was no objection from any party to the spirit or the clauses of the Kellogg Treaty, the Tanaka government advised the Emperor to sign the treaty as written, for fear of causing international complications. To appease ultraconservatives, an official explanation was issued pointing out that the Emperor was signing a treaty written in a foreign language; that the Emperor was doing nothing to lower his authority...
Quite as anxious as Britain's Ramsay MacDonald for friendly relations with the U. S. is Japan's courtly Prime Minister, 66-year-old Baron Giichi Tanaka. Breaking the traditional oriental silence, last week, the grizzled Prime Minister, in his stocking feet, courteously received Correspondent Barnet Nover of the Buffalo News. A Japanese of the old school, Baron Tanaka never wears shoes except on formal state occasions. Rheumatic, he must be supported by a stalwart valet while being shod...
Correspondent Nover turned the subject to Japan's China policy and asked if the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung did not represent a "retreat" in Japan's foreign policy. Baron Tanaka frowned, twiddled his toes, replied: "There has been no retreat, because there never was any necessity for retreating. Our policy, now as ever, has been based on a desire to live at peace with the people of China. . . . Certain people however invented a theory regarding the government's policy at the time it came into power, and now to fit the theory to the facts...
...sent troops into Shantung because the lives and property of Japanese nationals there were in danger. The emergency is over now and we have the solemn assurance of the present government that our nationals will be given adequate protection." Hotly did Baron Tanaka deny that, as most Chinese Nationalists and foreign correspondents believe, Japan is unfriendly to the Chinese Nationalist Government : "A strong China with a government capable of enforcing its will over the entire area would be a blessing for Japan. . . . For a strong China, freed of the turmoil and the chaos which has plagued it for so many...