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Japan's little Premier, Nobuyuki Abe, is a definition of inconsistency. His breakfast begins by being Japanese (bean soup, pickled eggplant, rice) and ends Occidentally (soft-boiled eggs, a glass of milk). His house (suburban, neither big nor small) is typically that of a Japanese military man, but is cluttered by a very unmilitary hobby-scores of canaries and red sparrows in pretty cages. Premier Abe drinks a little but not much, smokes a little but not much, exercises a little but not much. He is a general, but he has never been...
This very quality of indecision was just the reason why Nobuyuki Abe was chosen: he would be pliable. But those who chose him did not realize that under him the whole Government would degenerate into machinery for vacillation. Since U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew gave Japan a piece of the U. S. mind on Oct. 19, the Japanese have wavered worse than before...
First they said they appreciated Mr. Grew's sincerity. Then they contradicted his points. Premier Abe talked with Foreign Minister Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura and it was announced that conversations would be held with the Ambassador. Then the Army talked with Premier Abe and it was announced that they would not. Foreign Minister Nomura would talk with Ambassador Grew privately, informally. No, the Foreign Minister was "too busy"; he would not. Last week...
...flair for fence-sitting. None of the rampant idealism usually attributed to Lincoln colors the Sherwood-Massey characterization, and for that reason the play might be considered derogatory, but "unemotional" seems to be a better word to describe their approach. Well polished by a year's experience on Broadway, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" is on its way to becoming an American classic...
...Government had the ace of trumps up its sleeve. When Premier General Nobuyuki Abe assembled a new Cabinet month ago, he reserved the portfolio of foreign affairs for himself "for the time being." Last week he named as Foreign Minister one of the best Japanese friends of the U. S., Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura. As a student at Annapolis and as naval attache in Washington, he acquainted himself with U. S. naval strategy and Franklin Roosevelt (when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy). A remarkably huge Japanese-six feet tall and nearly 200 pounds-he lost an eye fighting...