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...Died. Tsuneo Matsudaira, 72, suave, skillful onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. (1925-28) and Britain (1928-36), confidant (as Imperial Household Minister) to Emperor Hirohito and father-in-law of the Emperor's brother, Prince Chichibu; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. As a moderate, he was hated by the military, unofficially cleared of war responsibility by the Allies, elected first president in 1947 of Japan's.new upper house, the House of Councilors...
...Veteran diplomat and courtier Tsuneo Matsudaira, 68, resigned as Imperial Household Minister. Ex-Ambassador to Washington and London, father-in-law of the Emperor's brother Prince Chichibu, the suave, gin-drinking, golf-playing elder statesman was regarded as one of the last "moderate" influences around the throne. He was succeeded by ex-Finance Minister Sotaro Ishiwata, good friend of the militarists...
...reveal for the first time," said Wilfrid Fleisher, "a plot of last July 5 by which a group of reactionary members of the so-called 'God-sent' troops intended to assassinate former Premier Mitsumasa Yonai and the Imperial House hold Minister Tsuneo Matsudaira." The leader of this plot was Colonel Hashimoto...
Could so outrageous an ultimatum ever have been delivered? Incredulous, the Secretary of State decided to ask the Japanese Ambassador. At the Japanese Embassy delicious tea and convincing denials were served to Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and Associated Press General Manager Melville Stone by bland Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Chinda. They came away apologetic, and President Stone cabled a thoroughgoing rebuke to Correspondent Moore-who had in fact obtained the scoop of the year, Japan's now famed Twenty-One Demands of 1915. After these demands proved authentic Secretary Bryan asked Ambassador Chinda...
...bespectacled Son of Heaven, signed his Privy Council's awful decision last week as the world's only other Emperor of consequence was polishing the London Naval parley off into oblivion. The delegates did their own adjourning, but for Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, for Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira and for U. S. Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis the big moments last week were when each was called separately to Buckingham Palace. Each was questioned closely by George V, in his youth an active seadog, today primed with an amazing fund of naval knowledge and a still more amazing...