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...Congress, whose success in jacking up President Roosevelt to jack up the price of silver forced China's currency off the silver standard and dislocated the affairs of 400,000,000 Chinese. Last week's keynote caused the Japanese Foreign Office's tart spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau to snort: "Senator Pittman's utterances indicate that he is actuated by ill will, and lacks both knowledge and judgment. Indeed, I really cannot comment until I see the official text because such a speech by a responsible statesman is incredible!" Where Was China? In all last week...
Knife-tongued Mr. Eiji Amau, famed official spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office, last week told British correspondents it would be a good thing if the U. S. should consent to reductions in the size of its battleships. "In other words," said he, "we would like to see the crabs on the American Pacific coast lose their big claws...
...Losing their claws might kill the crabs," cracked a Briton. "All the better for eating!" cracked back Mr. Amau...
Having quit the League of Nations two years ago, Japan was ready for anything. Said canny Foreign Office Spokesman Eiji Amau last week, "Japan will not obstruct the League of Nations. . . . Our attitude toward sanctions will be decided by Japan's interests and her policy as a whole...
Nonetheless a dither of suspicion persisted that Japan's militarists are now definitely Ethiopia-conscious. In Tokyo famed Foreign Office Spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau said: "The Japanese Government is watching the situation with grave concern because the outbreak of war anywhere is a calamity that indirectly injures many countries besides the combatants. I believe the stories that Japanese capitalists have obtained cotton concessions in Ethiopia are unfounded. The story that an Ethiopian prince was seeking to marry a Japanese girl is groundless. We have received no appeals from Ethiopia, we are not engaged in consultations of any kind regarding...