Crossword-Solution: GENRO 5 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

That boy was dangerous!" He turned to Genro Kir, who was looking with horrified fascination at the still growing cloud in the screen.

Was he the right minister to direct a war? He was nearer eighty than seventy years old, and recently had been for seven years in retirement: his Government had a minority in the Diet, and to the Genro his name was anathema: he claimed the allegiance of no party, and the powerful military and naval clans, Choshiu and Satsuma, were openly hostile.

End Transcriber's note] WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UP [Illustration: COUNT SHIGE-NOBU OKUMA OF JAPAN] (From a photograph and autograph given the author) Count Okuma, one of the Genro or Elder Statesmen of Japan and ex-Premier of the Empire, is an opponent of his country's high protective tariff and an earnest advocate of international arbitration.

Emperor Meiji and his Genro, with a flash of intuition or an intellectual penetration almost unparalleled in the political history of the world, guided Japan into the swift current of mechanical progress; the island empire swept ahead of Asia, abreast of the most powerful states of the world.

The Japanese trusts, the princes of the Choshiu and Satsuma clans, who control the House of Peers and the Genro Council, and thus run the government by veto, did not want a republic in China.