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Eminently respectable in Japan, political assassination is a patriotic cult. Last week the erect old Patriarch of Terror, angel-faced Mitsuru Toyama, 79, was safer than ever from arrest by Japanese police. For one thing his beloved Koki Hirota, "one of my best boys," is Foreign Minister. For another, famed Terrorist Priest Inouye, once a likely rival for the post of Japan's No. 1 guide, philosopher and friend of patriotic assassins, is now in jail. He inspired the killing of Japan's greatest financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan, and Finance Minister Inouye, to be carefully distinguished from Terrorist Priest...
...Japan not only the fighting services, but also the Emperor, the peasants and the proletariat are out to soak the bourgeois rich. Before the soaking begins this week, the Diet was edified by a discourse from ingenious Mr. Koki Hirota. A stone-cutter's son, he once tried to get a job in the household of Captain John Joseph Pershing, then U. .S. military attache in Tokyo, who turned him down because "his English is so poor." Today Koki Hirota is Foreign Minister. "Please tell General Pershing," said he not long ago to Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, "that Hirota...
...Next day the Foreign Office admitted that Mr. Hirota recently received from Mr. Grew and British Ambassador Sir Robert Clive the English Speaking Powers' third series of vigorous protests against the new oil monopoly laws of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo (TIME, Nov. 5). For the third time cocky Mr. Hirota's still cockier spokesman, famed Eiji Amau snapped: "We cannot admit any contention which ignores the sovereign independence of Manchukuo...
Tokyo, Friday, Nov. 30--Foreign Minister Koki Hirota today publicly confirmed the grim determination of the Japanese government to denounce the Washington Naval Limitation Agreements...
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...