Word: shigemitsu
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Premier Hideki Tojo shuffled his Cabinet last week and gave Japan a new Foreign Minister: wooden-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu...
...Shanghai's Hongkew Park, a Korean patriot threw a bomb at a review stand filled with Japanese officials. Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) lost a leg; Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, later Ambassador to Washington, lost...
...acts of terrorism. The list was more notable for length than for accuracy. Most impressive of the checkable acts was the 1932 bombing of a reviewing stand in Shanghai after a parade in honor of Japan's Emperor: General Yoshinori Shirakawa lost his life, Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu his leg and Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura his right eye. Author of that bombing was one In Hokichi. As for most other Korean terrorists, their aim was no better than Park Soowon...
...East Asia. If there was any doubt that Spokesman Ishii was talking for his Government, it was dispelled by British Foreign Under Secretary Richard Austen Butler, who told the House of Commons that the mediation offer had been made official. This week Prime Minister Churchill received Japanese Ambassador Shigemitsu, turned the offer down...
...British Government this was quite unfunny. Especially serious was the violent death-the Japanese claimed it was "suicide"-of one of the arrested suspects, Reuters Correspondent Melville James Cox (TIME, Aug. 5). Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax sent an invitation for a little conversation around to Ambassador Shigemitsu. Sober Viscount Halifax told the Ambassador that unless the ar rested men were immediately freed, Britain's anger would be great...