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Over the cables from Tokyo flashed a single sentence: "After being ill with influenza for four days, Viscount Takaaki Kato, Premier of Japan, is dead...
...news of Viscount Kato's death, two completely dissimilar personalities flickered in the memory of diplomats familiar with Japan. First they recalled the silent, square-jawed Viscount himself ? direct, almost pugnacious, with the habit of rolling the sleeves of his kimono well above the elbow whenever work was to be done in the privacy of his home. The second personality that the diplomats recalled was the frail, timid-seeming man, who next to Admiral Togo was perhaps the greatest of Japanese naval strategists. He was Admiral Baron Tomasaburo Kato, Premier from 1922 until 1923, an actual...
...When Admiral Kato died some two years ago (TIME, Sept. 3, 1923), the Nichi-Nichi, a newspaper owned by Viscount Takaaki Kato, remarked with asperity that as Premier "he was a disappointment."* Soon the Nichi-Nichi welcomed its owner as Premier (TIME, June 23, 1924). Since then he has held together his coalition government with an iron hand...
...Corfu, Cyprus, Rhodes, Malta and of course, Jerusalem. Those in the know excitedly let fall that among the announced female pilgrims are the Countess of Cromer, the Dowager Countess of Airlie, the Countess Haig and Lady Nunburnholme. Stout Knights who promised their escort included the Earl of Scarborough, Viscount Galway, Lord Lamington and Lord Treowen...
Observers noted that the chief conflicts over this agenda centered about the well worn subject of "security." Viscount Cecil for Britain steadily opposed the inclusion of the "Degrees of Security" or "Invisible Armaments" clauses in the agenda. To him and to the British press, disarmament was evidently a subject which had to do chiefly with scrapping tangible implements of warfare. However M. Paul-Boncour, in the name of France and the smaller nations, insisted that the "intangible" factors actually outweighed the "material" in importance...