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...Ko Ishii is a pink-cheeked, affable, stogy-smoking diplomat who was once (1929-30) Japanese Consul in New York. Last December he became spokesman for the Japanese Cabinet, replacing the somewhat less affable Foreign Office spokesman, slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, short, swart Yakichiro Suma. Last week Diplomat Ishii talked the Japanese Foreign Office into a lot of trouble...
...scare, were dismayed at the length it had gone. To their protestations of peaceful intentions U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles coldly replied that the U. S. was interested in deeds, not words, and Congress voted an appropriation to fortify Samoa and Guam. At this point Ko Ishii bustled into his press conference and suggested that the U. S. restrict its activities to the Western Hemisphere. Then...
...words of Japanese spokesmen were full of meaning, in their contradictions as well as their consistencies. For the Cabinet, Spokesman Ko Ishii purred: "We do not see the imminence of war in the Pacific." For the Army,. Major Kunio Akiyama barked: "Japan will not disturb the waves of the Pacific, but if strong pressure is applied she will be compelled to take certain measures." For the chauvinists, Tokyo Kokumin shrilled that U. S. activity in the Pacific was "approaching a state of war." For the realists, Japanese correspondents in French Indo-China stated: "Japan will move against Anglo-American interests...
Born. To Sylvia Sidney, 29, (née Ko-sow), sad-eyed cinemactress; and Luther Adler, 36, legitimate actor (Golden Boy); their first child, a son, in Manhattan. Weight...
...Schertzinger Mikado, adapted by Conductor Geoffrey Toye, contains no word that Gilbert, no note that Sullivan, did not write. A few omissions include the duet between Katisha and Ko-Ko, There is beauty in the bellow of the blast and Ko-Ko's song I've got a little list. Sets are far handsomer than any ever seen on the Savoyard stage. Sound recording is approximately perfect. On close inspection, cinemaddicts will note that the Mikado's story conforms strictly to Boy-Meets-Girl pattern; and that Gilbert & Sullivan have not yet been topped...