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...Minister Hirota's next step was to set one group of Foreign Office assistants to studying whether or not the British quotas could be claimed as a breach of the Anglo-Japanese commercial treaty. Another group went to work on a schedule of anti-British retaliatory tariffs to be used as a last resort...
...League. The next problem in Koki Hirota's busy week was what to do about Dr. Ludwik Rajchman. So glaring are the things that the League of Nations ills to do that the world is apt to forget the practical international charity which the League attempts. Year ago it was the League-inspired loan to Austria that did much to ward off Hitlerism and keep Engelbert Dollfuss in the saddle. Since 1930 the League has been doing what it could for impoverished China. Eight months ago it commissioned its Dr. Ludwik Rajchman, Polish expert on China...
...Tokyo Foreign Minister Hirota felt it wise to consult the Emperor's ear, venerable Prince Saionji, last of the Elder Statesmen, before tackling the League's work in China. This time the Hirota words were delivered to the world not through Spokesman Amau but through Rengo, the official news agency. First came a warning to frighten possible investors: "Financial conditions in China are most distressing. Chinese merchants abroad who have been remitting between 300,000,000 and 400,000,000 yuan ($100,000,000 to $133,000,000) a year to help Chinese finances have ceased remittances. Last...
...Failed. It is not news when a U. S. citizen fails in college and later achieves great success at his chosen profession. In crowded Japan where university graduates sprout like weeds and jobs are sparse, it is news indeed. Sweating over their studies, Japanese students remember that Koki Hirota was the man who failed in his examinations for the diplomatic service only to become one of Japan's most effective Foreign Ministers. He was born in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu 56 years ago. Kyushu is as solidly conservative as Maine. As a sober little schoolboy Koki Hirota...
...delegation out of the League of Nations. Koki Hirota was popped into the office before most Japanese militarists realized what was brewing. Conspirators Saito and Saionjii knew that fundamentally Minister Hirota is as ardent a nationalist as any Black Dragon could wish, but they hoped & prayed that his long service in the diplomatic corps would make him more discreet and softspoken. Minister Hirota's method of being discreet and soft-spoken while carrying on Japan's policy of expansion is to supply the words and let anonymous spokesmen voice them. Last week excitable Tokyo papers were demanding...