Word: yonai
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...legs of Premier Yonai's tripod were no more wobbly than usual. In its own sphere, the military was still effective. The Army could still announce an objective, go and get it over dead Chinese bodies, and then retire into garrison...
Last week Representative Haruji Tahara rose in the Diet and before the very face of Premier Yonai said: "We must have a strong man at the top, a Hitler, a Mussolini -" (the House drew in its breath, remembering the expulsion of a member last year for urging a Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin) "- or a Roosevelt." The House relaxed...
Mitsumasa Yonai, a confident man, smiled. He knew how to take criticism. He was born to debts, weaned on trouble, schooled in adversity...
...years before Mitsumasa was born Japan was suddenly turned from a feudal to a capitalistic state. The elder Yonai, given an inadequate political job, cracked up and deserted his family when Mitsumasa...
...Yonai's mother, also of samurai blood and, being a woman, even less prepared to earn her daily rice than her husband had been, nevertheless buckled down as a seamstress and sewing teacher. While Mitsumasa was in school, he got a job copying documents, each week gave his pay envelope to his mother, unopened. He went on to the Naval Academy, where he was a popular mediocrity. He finished at the centre of his class - 60th among 125 cadets. At 21 he wrote, in clumsy, inept calligraphy, a pathetic little self-portrait: "My strongest characteristic: gluttony-I never...