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That Japan is in dead earnest appeared from the fact that her "scheme"' was roughed out at an acrimonious conference last week between those two tomcats of Japanese statecraft, Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi and Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. Over their snarling presided Premier Keisuke Okada, who arrived from an audience with the Son of Heaven...
Emperor Hirohito. Leaks indicated that Naval Tomcat Osumi demanded abrogation of the naval treaties at once by Japan, while Diplomatic Tomcat Hirota spat that it would be better to face the Great Powers with impossible demands and lead them into rejection of Japan's scheme, for which they must then take the blame...
After weary months of pinking each other with diplomatic rapiers in Tokyo, cocky little Japanese Foreign Minister Koko Hirota and gruff, sad-eyed Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev were so jangle-nerved last week that each was glad to throw the issue at stake to his native Press, which promptly charged the other's Government with a "Gigantic Plot...
...Japanese Foreign Office setting the figure Manchukuo offers to pay. The first offer, less than one-fifth of Russia's demand, provoked Moscow to horse laughs, especially as it was made in depreciated, fluctuating Japanese yen. Since then all figures have been secret, with Comrade Yurenev and Mr. Hirota defying each other with a "final offer" every few months. Last week, with tempers erupting on both sides, a break in negotiations came as the dummy third party, Manchukuo's Vice Foreign Minister Chuichi Ohashi, who is a Japanese, packed his bags and left Tokyo for Hsinking, the capital...
...Kuznetsov of C. E. R. Said he: "The Soviet Government will protect the railway employes. The defenses along the border are now complete and the Soviet will not be forced to sell too cheaply. The world powers understand the danger of Japanese armaments. . . ." As the week closed, nervous Mr. Hirota's friends insisted that despite the break in negotiations he would soon be prepared to haggle again with Ambassador Yurenev...