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...moods of his fellow defendants were varied. Most were nervous, winced even at the mention of their names. Ex-Foreign Minister Ribbentrop looked broken and old, with a hurt, petulant look on his frozen face. Ex-Ambassador Franz von Papen spoke to no one, listened impassively (but he had Mass said for him before he came to court in the morning). Best show of austere indifference was given by former Chief of the Supreme High Command Wilhelm Keitel (who was in good health: Allied physicians had successfully doctored his flat feet...
...Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria hotel, some 2,000 foreign traders last week were told a fact of postwar life that old China hands already knew. The teller was Clarence Edward Gauss, ex-ambassador to China. Said Mr. Gauss: "China has emerged from the war a fully sovereign state. The vexatious issues relating to special foreign privileges existing in China under the old 'unequal' treaties having been swept away, we must enter upon our postwar trade relations on a new basis...
...last week's acerbity subsides, the Allied commissioners headed for Tokyo will find food for thought in a recent change of attitude toward Japan by the U.S. Department of State. The Department's Far Eastern views used to be heavily influenced by men like Joseph Clark Grew, ex-Ambassador to Japan who later became Under Secretary. The Grew men-the "Japan crowd"-were obsessed with the idea that Japan would always be the strongest power in east Asia. They were not anti-Chinese, but they could not see in sprawling, floundering China any possible growth of power that...
...Veteran diplomat and courtier Tsuneo Matsudaira, 68, resigned as Imperial Household Minister. Ex-Ambassador to Washington and London, father-in-law of the Emperor's brother Prince Chichibu, the suave, gin-drinking, golf-playing elder statesman was regarded as one of the last "moderate" influences around the throne. He was succeeded by ex-Finance Minister Sotaro Ishiwata, good friend of the militarists...
...coalition of Socialists, Social Democrats, Communists, Catholics, Agrarians and Independents. Its Premier: Social Democrat Zdenek Fierlinger, rotund ex-Ambassador to Moscow and prime protagonist of friendship with Russia...