JAPANESE STATESMEN
DEATHS BY VIOLENCE
EX-MINISTER PREPARED
LONDON, 14th January, d Yukio Ozaki, aged 70, formerly «' member of the Japanese Cabinet, left} London for Japan, says the "Dailyj1 Herald," knowing that assassination! awaits him because many of his countrymen consider that his speeches iii America and Britain were unpatriotic* He has written to his son in Japan; 6tating: '-...'
_"As_ more Japanese statesmen: die violent '■ deaths than natural deaths, anyone claiming to be a first-class public man must be prepared for a tragic end. I have, never forgotten mother's instructions:l 'Meet death with a smile.' "If possible I should like to die a death which "would, prove a lesson to posterity."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 7
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110JAPANESE STATESMEN Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 7
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