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...South Manchuria Railway, a post that carried leadership of all Japanese interests in Manchuria, to direct the cocky demonstration of Japan's "right to Manchuria." By last week the Manchurian job was done and Count Uchida resigned to give way to a younger Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota, onetime Ambassador to Moscow. Observers called it "simply the substitution of a vigorous and unspent man for one who was weary...
...vigorous and unspent" substitute, merry-eyed little Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, 55, is well tuned to Araki's voice. He began his career as a protégé of two famed patriots (reactionaries). Mitsuru Toyama and Ryohei Uchida (no kin to the Count), now president of the notorious Black Dragon Society. But last week the Foreign Office hastily assured foreign correspondents that the new Minister's "ideas are practical and moderate as befits a statesman who has served in Washington and Europe." And Hirota himself followed this up by calling "hopeful . . . the outlook for amity between Japan...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, specializes in Far East diplomacy. His first move was to tell Japanese Ambassador Hirota that "the Soviet Government will follow a policy of strict non-interference in the Manchurian crisis," and to denounce Japan's occupation of Manchuria by implication thus: "The Soviet Government considers that the policy of military occupation, applied under whatever form of so-called protection of interests and nations, is inconsistent with the peaceful policy of the Soviet Union and with the interests of world peace...
After that Mr. Hirota and Comrade Karakhan got down to business. It took them two days to make a deal. During that time Japanese apprehension betrayed itself in Japanese press denunciations of Russia, Japanese charges that Russian troops were "stealthily entering Manchuria...
Suddenly on the third day, the Imperial Government assured Tokyo correspondents that everything was all right. Comrade Karakhan and Ambassador Hirota had arrived, said the Japanese Government spokesman, at the following gentlemen's agreement...