The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-19
JAPAN TO PLAY CAUTIOUSLY
 AT FARLEY
By WEBSTER k. NOLAN International News Service Staff
 Correspondent

Washington, Oct. 19.-Fore-shad- owing the astuteness with which the delegates of Japan will conduct them selves at the Disarmament Confer ence, the first step-the selection of the three men to represent the Nip ponese goVernment-shows g. marked desire upon the part of Japan to play cautious hand at the Round Table of the nations.
 There is Prince Iyesato To1zugawa, the Colonel House of the Japanese government. Closest of all the states men to the Emperor, looked upon generally as a man above party. for 2O-odd years president of the House of Peers, Prince Tokugawa stands as the conf1dante of state secrets and the mysterious parsonage from whom has often come "the last word.''
 Brains of Cabinet
 There is Rear Admiral TomoSahuro Kato, the brains of the Japanese Cabinet and Navy. Ministry has super seded ministry and parties have sup planted parties for more than a de- cade in Japan, but the Minister for the Navy Rear Admiral Tomoshanure ! Kato, retains the portfolio of his of | ice. He shares, with an exclusive few, the fine light of being a man above party. In Japan none is held compara- l ble to kato in point of knowledge on | things affecting naval construction | and naval armament.
 | There Is Baron Kijuro Shidehara
 the Japanese Ambassador to the | United States, the trained seal' of the Japanese Diplomatic Service. A | man who has had nothing to do with 1 home politics, a statesman seemingly | marked for every high diplomatic | honor his government can bestow. A | keen observer of men and events in | the Occidental world, Baron Shide- nara is the most trusted envoy of Ja- pan. Of the three delegates of Japan | to the Disarmament Conference Bar | on Shidehara Is considered the dele
 gate best versed in the systems and ] of fa aSf
 He has long been the most prominent | Japanese figure in European and
 American diplomatic circles.
 l Few Above Suspicion
 In Japan, where of late years inter-
 necine political warfare has been se-
 curing to itself the greater portion of | the national stage, only a handful of
 picion. There are those who want to 1 raise the standards of living and la Dor, others who want war, still others
 seeF sor t5s at any priee
 monarohisrn and the substitution of a | broader policy of representation.
 There arc conservatives and radicals, The Emperor, who is credited with
 the appointment of the three dele-
 gates to the arms barley, sought to
 name men above all this play of poli-
 tics, immune alike to the waving of
 red flags and the agitation for peace
 at any price-men who know the value of the soft word and the effec-
 tiveness of silence,
 Prince Tolugawa at the age of 20
 years went. to England. where he
 spent five years in study. 1s7T-1sS2.
 He returned to Japan and pursued his
 studies further. In 1890 he was ap-
 pointed a member of the House of
 Peers and so thereafter was elected
 president Of the House of Peers, an
 honorary office, In the latter office
 Prince Tohugawa had a. hand in the | formation of ministries, and he won
 to himself the confidence of the En- lost, In 1910, while president of the House of Peers, Prince Tokugawa wis
 tied America on a pleasure tour and revisited his former haunts in Eng
 land, He received the title of Prince in July, 1884.
 Rear Admiral Tomesaburo Kate
 was born on February ga, 1881. He |, | participated in the great naval en-
 gagenaent off the TeushiIna coast when the Japanese first fleet sent the
 He took part in the capture of Port
 Arthur, Later he became Vice-Min-
 ister for the Navy, soon thereafter F succeeding to the post of Minister fol the Navy, which portfolio he has neV. CT relinquished.
 Baron Kijure SFidehara was bers in August, 1872. and has spent a1mos . the whole ef his life in the dip1ematit : service. He was sent to the Embassy : in London as secretary. In 1903 ht = | was assigned to the Washington Elm bassy as counsellor, He was then ap ! | pointed Japanese Minister to tn, l | Netherlands, In 1915Ahe was calIet
 home and given the portfolio of Vice
 Minister for Foreign Affairs. In 191,
 he was named Ambassador to tn | United States.
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