Word: yoshitsugu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's Ambassador to Russia, dog-faced Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, resigned- because of ill health...
Germany, Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima, stopped off for two days of intensive diplomatic activity with the Japanese Ambassador to Russia, Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, and with the German and Italian Ambassadors, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg and Augusto Rosso. That the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was bent on taking Russia into camp was plain. Before leaving for his post in Berlin, General Oshima beamed at correspondents and murmured: "Close Soviet-Japanese relations are . . . necessary to facilitate the construction of a new world order...
...virtue of the treaty the most sought-after power in the world. U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, who had vacationed in the U. S. while the treaty was being cooked up, paid a hurried call on Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps got busy. Japanese Ambassador Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, who hates Communists but loves the "simple, pure-minded Russians," conferred with German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg about the non-aggression treaty Japan hopes to negotiate with the U. S. S. R. to safeguard her northern frontier while she conquers Greater East Asia. Comrades Stalin & Molotov...
Before Japan can get very far in her new friendship she must overcome: 1) Russian suspicion of Japan, and 2) Japanese suspicion of Russia. Last week, coincidentally with the press campaign, Foreign Minister Matsuoka named a new Ambassador to Moscow: Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tate-kawa. A leader in the anti-British campaign since 1937, skillful, politically ambitious General Tatekawa remarked: "The British are a crafty lot, smooth-spoken but always with something up their sleeves. I can get along with the Russians better...