Word: tanis
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...wiggled my way under a lorry, not caring that I was lying in a mess of dirt and oil and blood. A wounded and emaciated Indian soldier, more exhausted than I, crawled under beside me and with the eyes of a stricken animal gazed at me, crying softly: Tani, pani.' But of course I had not a drop of water to offer him." The troops attacked for three whole days until they broke the encirclement...
Britain. In Tokyo, Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani called on British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie. He demanded that British authorities in Burma emulate the discretion of their Indo-Chinese neighbors by stopping munitions traffic. The British Government "found it difficult to make a prompt reply." By way of pressure, Japanese troops formed a tight landward ring around Hong Kong. The British prepared to resist. Hong Kong officials, archives and non-combatants were evacuated to Singapore and Manila...
...Netherlands East Indies were apparently to be spared for the moment. But not forever. Just to remind the Dutch that Japan had not forgotten them, Vice Foreign Minister Tani called on Netherlands Minister to Tokyo J. C. Pabst, expressed appreciation of the trade concessions already made by the Indies, declared however they were not enough, asked for more, and in no uncertain terms suggested "the need for prompt compliance." Minister Pabst was prompt...
...Japanese advanced on many fronts. Short, stout, bald, jolly Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, whom the Japanese like to call a "French-type diplomat," and short, popeyed, acid Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma, whose diplomacy smacks more of the German, had much to say after each advance...
...Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian border; Suma spoke of "concessions and compromises"-eminently worthwhile since the agreement left Japan free for southern adventures. The Tokyo Nichi Nichi reported 2,000 British troops had landed in The Netherlands Indies; Suma viewed this with "extreme gravity." British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie and Tani signed an agreement on the longstanding Tientsin silver dispute; Tani did not publicly comment on the obvious inference that Japan has helpless Britain where she wants her. A treaty of friendship was signed with Thailand (Siam); Suma said it was not a non-aggression treaty, a type Japan considered unsuitable...