Word: eiji
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's out, of course, was that there was no official text of the statement, as made orally by the Japanese Official Spokesman, Eiji Amau. In Tokyo, therefore, two identical notes were delivered to the British and U. S. Embassies from Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. It was explained that these were Japan's only official utterances on the subject of her policy toward China. Japan withdrew nothing of importance, but there were many soothing omissions. Japan had no intention of abrogating the Nine Power Treaty, or of interfering with the "purely commercial'' interests of other powers...
Tokyo's Eiji Amau is a Japanese of distinction. He has very curly hair parted in the middle and he is that useful anonymity referred to in cable dispatches as "a Foreign Office spokesman." Last week Spokesman Amau assembled most of the foreign correspondents in Tokyo and announced in careful, precise English what was instantly recognized as the most important statement of Japanese policy in the Far East since the famed 21 Demands imposed on China by Japan in 1915. Excerpts...