Word: toyoda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese, therefore, celebrated the anniversary last week with reserve. Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda made a speech in which he emphasized the peaceful character of Japan's designs, her desire, as an Axis partner, to prevent the extension of World War II. Since the pact was approved by Premier Prince Konoye and most of the present Cabinet, since it was blessed by the Son of Heaven, this was as far as a polite Japanese Minister could go in the way of saying that the pact did not mean anything...
...pact full of meaning if, at some later date, it became safe to challenge the U.S. Just now Japan was preoccupied in keeping the U.S. mollified by polite doubletalk. But to German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott double-talk is not pleasing. At an anniversary luncheon at Foreign Minister Toyoda's home he talked straight...
...time that was pro-Russian and anti-Hitler-would be gained by negotiations, which would certainly be delicate, undoubtedly be long. Accordingly, talks were begun both in Washington, where Admiral Nomura and Cordell Hull met several times "outside the State Department," and in Tokyo, where Foreign Minister Admiral Teijiro Toyoda received the American who has the most savvy about and the most sympathy with Japan, Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew...
With consummate shrewdness Premier Konoye chose soft-spoken Admiral Teijiro Toyoda to be his new Foreign Minister. Admiral Toyoda was once naval attache in London; he attended the 1927 and 1930 naval conferences and lost popularity in Japan for his part in the signing of the 1930 Naval Treaty. The Japanese describe him as "a gentleman of the British type." His appointment could be expected to arouse British and U.S. hopes of a rapprochement with Japan while Japan prepared for action...