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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...
...began stripping off their uniforms, some hurling their naked bodies against the French barbed wire to secure gashes and wounds, understood to be essential for admission to safety in the French Concession. Elsewhere on the Shanghai front Chinese retreated in good order, setting fire to the enormous Japanese-owned Toyoda cotton mills and popping a few Chinese shells into a $1,000,000 U. S.-owned match factory...