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Miles W. Vaughn, UPI, World Telegram, N. Y., July 25, 1933.
Miles W. Vaughn, Far Eastern Manager – 1933 (UPI file),
United Press International Centennial Anniversary, 1907-2007
& After a tour of Ceylon, Singapore, Java, and Bali,
the party arrived in Japan in May 1932. Here Chaplin was
welcomed like a king. An escort of hundreds
of policemen was assigned to guide him through the cheering
Tokyo crowds to his suite in the Hotel Imperial,
designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
The next day, the son of Tsuyoki Inukai, the
Premier of Japan, invited Chaplin to attend a wrestling match.
On leaving the stadium, Kono learned that the Premier
has been assassinated while his son was away arranging for
Chaplin‘s attendance at the match.
(...) Theodore Huff, Charlie Chaplin, New York 1951
& Testimony in a Tokio court about a plot
to assassinate Charles Chaplin in order to produce war with
the United States needs to be taken with a whole
cellarful of salt. Even Nippon‘s military cult are not anxious
for more troubles just at present.
(...) Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 30, 1933
„A British subject“
Editorial content. „CHAPLIN MISSED
DEATH IN TOKIO
Japanese Plot to Kill Him to Start War
with America Miscarried
By Miles W. Vaughn,
United Press Staff Correspondent.
TOKIO, July 25. – An abortive plot to kill Charlie Chaplin
in the hope of precipitating a Japanese-American
war was revealed today by a witness in the trial of ten naval
officers involved in the assassination of Premier
Tsuyoshi Inauki May 15, 1932.
(The Japanese officer probably overlooked the fact
that Chaplin is a British subject.)
Sub-Lieutenant Koga testified that the plotters laid
plans to bomb the official residence of Premier
Inauki during a reception for Chaplin, then visiting Japan.
The plot failed when the reception was
abandoned.“ (...)
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