Word: suma
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...flimsy affair of wood and beaverboard, whose shabbiness is accentuated by the grandiose Navy Office across the way, Japan's new Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, introduced himself to his staff one day last week. His was a critical audience-blunt Yoshizawa of the American Division, cross-eyed Spokesman Suma, dyspeptic middle-aged clerks and angry youngsters who think Japan should expand all the way to the Suez Canal-who had seen Foreign Ministers come & go like rainstorms. They expected thunder in this maiden speech...
Japan reacted to the embargo violently, but alert Foreign Minister Matsuoka was a jump ahead of his own countrymen. He instructed Ambassador to the U. S. Kensuke Horinouchi to call on Sumner Welles and lodge a protest. He instructed Spokesman Suma to use strong words. That master of anticlimax told reporters: "Our reaction will be very great." But the most serious thing Yosuke Matsuoka did was to let word get about that Japan might have to retaliate by cutting off U. S. supplies of rubber and tin from the East Indies...
...Japanese advanced on many fronts. Short, stout, bald, jolly Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, whom the Japanese like to call a "French-type diplomat," and short, popeyed, acid Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma, whose diplomacy smacks more of the German, had much to say after each advance...
...Japanese signed a new pact concerning that Russo-Japanese running sore, the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian border; Suma spoke of "concessions and compromises"-eminently worthwhile since the agreement left Japan free for southern adventures. The Tokyo Nichi Nichi reported 2,000 British troops had landed in The Netherlands Indies; Suma viewed this with "extreme gravity." British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie and Tani signed an agreement on the longstanding Tientsin silver dispute; Tani did not publicly comment on the obvious inference that Japan has helpless Britain where she wants her. A treaty of friendship was signed with Thailand (Siam); Suma said...
...Even in those days," declared Mr. Suma, "I felt Mr. Wang's patriotic ardor, his zeal to construct a rejuvenated China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from...