Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When the Japanese mission docked at Batavia, tiny Envoy Kobayashi and his 23 aides were greeted by a guard of honor who, it happened, were: 1) the force assigned to rounding up all Japanese in case of hostilities; 2) the tallest men in the Indies. (On his return to Japan, Mr. Kobayashi told the press: "I was amazed at the tallness of the people. I do not even compare in height with a child.") Members of the Japanese mission smilingly pointed at the bristling shore fortifications, barbed wire and blockhouses. Oh yes, said the Dutch, with perfectly straight faces...
...Tokyo the mysterious Heinrich Georg Stahmer ("Hitler's Masked Envoy") was reported on his way. It was Herr Stahmer who arranged the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Alliance (TIME, Oct. 7). A Berlin-Tokyo-Moscow Alliance, safeguarding Japan's back door, would be all that is needed to start Japan on the march in the south. A hint of what his country might be up to was given by none other than Ambassador Nomura. Said...
...Toasts were drunk in Tokyo last month, also to the future. German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, feared and respected by the Japanese as he does not fear and respect them, drank with Foreign Minister Kensuke Matsuoka, Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's special envoy Heinrich von Stahmer to the future of the three-way pact. But last week there was mostly a show of temper in Tokyo. The opening of the Burma Road...
...putting heavy pressure on Japan. One of Joachim von Ribbentrop's smart, tough young men, Heinrich von Stahmer, went to Moscow, told Joseph Stalin's man Molotov what was afoot, and continued on to Tokyo. There he was known as ''Germany's masked special envoy." Nearly every day he went to see Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan's ambitious, daring Foreign Minister who is the backbone of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye...
...Such promptness in filling the vacancy was almost unprecedented. Obviously the Vatican was anxious to get Monsignor Hurley to the U. S. in an official capacity as soon as possible. Rumor had it that Monsignor Hurley, who as U. S. contact man for the Holy See saw much of Envoy Taylor, was going to the U. S. to continue his close cooperation with Mr. Taylor. Next day the Pope gave a private audience to the Bishop-elect, reportedly gave him instructions for a special mission...