Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of State Hull's ablest agents, a Boston Yankee who has been able to push the pushy Japanese around, sailed homeward from Tokyo last week. He is Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, going home for a vacation and a course in the more or less continuous seminar for Ambassadors conducted by Franklin Roosevelt...
...Tokyo, where wartime substitute materials are widely used, A. Tanaka, would-be suicide, wrote to a rope manufacturer: "I had been hanging only a few seconds. Everything was swirling madly. I repented and then the rope broke-your rope. Many thanks...
...century a Yale psychology professor named George Trumbull Ladd delivered a set of lectures in Japan which revolutionized its educational methods. He was the first foreigner to receive the Third and Second Orders of the Rising Sun. When he died, half his ashes were buried in a Tokyo Temple and a monument was erected to him. This gave his son, George Tallman Ladd, an unbeatable commercial entree in Japan. When he went after Japanese business for his United Engineering & Foundry Co. in 1934, 150 priests performed ceremonies over his father's tomb...
...Venice, Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano met Alexander Cinca-Markovitch, Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia. Result: Yugoslavia agreed to "deepen the faithful collaboration" with Germany and Italy, will probably soon join the Rome-Berlin -Tokyo -Budapest anti - Comintern Pact. A former Little Entente ally of France and signer of the Balkan Pact, Yugoslavia became last week a dead loss to the "Peace Front" of Britain and France...
...Ambassador to China Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr chatted with Britain's Ambassador to Japan Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, presumably about trying to get Japan and China to stop fighting. Next day Sir Archibald went to China's capital, Sir Robert to Japan's. In Tokyo, Sir Robert was greeted by Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita with great politeness and greater vagueness. But in Chungking, as he stepped from the plane which had taken him there, Sir Archibald was handed a copy of an important declaration by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek: "Our prolonged resistance, our policy of gaining...