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...spunky little Empire at Geneva last week spoke Japan's Minister to Poland, cocky Dr. Fumio Ito. Down the League Mandates Commission's throat he rammed a Japanese thesis that because of "the undeniable fact of world economic interdependence, the League of Nations has not ceased to interpret the expression 'all members of the League' as meaning all the countries in the world and not only members of the League, as it seems at first glance...
Meanwhile Sergeant Honda was put under guard. Home Minister Fumio Goto, responsible for the police of all Japan, was moving Heaven and earth to hush the scandal. He almost succeeded. Seventy-two hours after the wrong turn no Japanese paper yet dared mention it. Then Sergeant Honda, closely guarded to prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...