Word: hirota
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...regiments "because they merely obeyed the commands of their officers." Two of these officers committed harakiri, but the rest were alive and well last week. Every Japanese knew that the Radical-Militarists were still assassination-minded in case the new Cabinet of hard, spry little onetime Foreign Minister Koki Hirota does not give Japan the drastic social and economic overhaul which they demand...
...Militarists want Japan's great capitalists and its moderately prosperous middle-class squeezed for the benefit of its farmers and fishermen, who since the Machine Age have been grinding out their lives in increasingly abject toil. Thus every Japanese businessman scanned with excruciating qualms every phrase of the Hirota Cabinet's first declaration of policy when it belatedly appeared last week. Its language was high-flown. "With a sense of awe and deep responsibility," preambled the Premier, "I have obeyed the Imperial command to organize a Cabinet after the recent extraordinary affair...
...Premier Koki Hirota had meanwhile announced after the first meeting of his Cabinet that it stands for ''positive and independent readjustment of the international situation to tide over the emergency situation." At this a War Office spokesman hailed "the Spirit of Hirota," and a Foreign Office statesman explained, ''It means that we are an independent country - not a protectorate...
...these brilliant youngsters the outstanding pair are Japan's Acting Foreign Minister of last week, Mr. Koki Hirota, and his equally cocky friend and protege, Mr. Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador in Washington. Old Saionji in his infinitely ripe wisdom next advised the Son of Heaven to call young Hirota...
Japanese Deputies sat up and beamed as Mr. Hirota went on to make what is, if accurate, a most important disclosure. "The Chinese Government," he announced, "not only has indicated its concurrence with all our views but proposed recently to open negotiations on Chino-Japanese rapprochement along the lines stated above." His Excellency also announced that if China should now sign on the dotted line Japan would "extend to her our moral and material support for her advancement." Added he: "We sincerely hope to smooth the progress of the newly established Commonwealth of the Philip-pines." In the largest World...