Word: unhappiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unhappiest esthete in Japan last week was Charles Arsene-Henry, French Ambassador to Tokyo. A scholar of Japanese language and literature, voluminously informed particularly on Japanese poetry, polite as a Japanese minstrel, Ambassador Arsene-Henry falls into the first classification. Last week he was cruelly hounded by devotees of the second. In a week of bitterest tragedy for his France, it appeared that something equally ruinous might be at hand in Asia-the beginning of the end for the white man's oriental empires. The discomfort of Ambassador Arsene-Henry was pathetically symbolic...