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Diplomats are supposed to be a tactful tribe, but in Tokyo owl-eyed Mr. Eiji Amau, famed Official Spokesman of Japan's Foreign Office, continues to carve out of tactlessness a great career. Many Japanese expect to see him Premier some day. Last week Official Spokesman Amau fairly surpassed himself when mockingly he announced that if the Great Powers dislike Japan's far-sighted and ingenious oil policy, "they can appeal to China...
Tokyo papers were forbidden last week to print the fact that patient, persuasive U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew and his British and Dutch colleagues of the diplomatic corps were protesting both the Japanese oil law and the Manchukuo monopoly. At the Foreign Office truculent Spokesman Amau refused even to discuss the former. "Japan," said he, "is a sovereign state...
...this slap by Japan in China's face, Japan also slapped at the Great Powers, signatories of the Washington and London naval treaties. She did not, to be sure, stage Japanese naval maneuvers off San Francisco or Liverpool. But in Tokyo the official Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Eiji Amau, a great adept at diplomatic nose-thumbing, called in white correspondents, gave an impressive exhibition...
Japan, according to Mr. Amau, has resolved to rupture the naval treaties and bring next year's Naval Conference to disaster unless the Great Powers accept "a new scheme of naval limitation which Japan will propose." This scheme is to replace the 5-5-3 naval ratio with something "fairer" to Japan. When correspondents asked point blank if Japan was asking naval parity with the strongest, Mr. Amau grinned, cackled, "That is a card we must keep up our sleeve. It is premature as yet to discuss the details of our scheme...
That the quarrel grew really hot was clear when Japanese reporters, close respectively to Mr. Hirota and Admiral Osumi, claimed for each that he worsted the other. At the Foreign Office, Spokesman Amau, cheering for his chief Mr. Hirota, announced: "Admiral Osumi has at length recognized the Foreign Office's constitutional right to decide the method of conducting foreign affairs." Cheering for the Admiral, his spokesman said that Mr. Hirota could indeed choose his "method" but that the "substance" of Japan's naval demands to the Great Powers would be dictated by her Navy. Prognostications were that Japan will...