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...Japanese juggler in any U. S. circus was last week keeping aloft a variety of balls, plates and fiery sticks more dexterously than Koki Hirota, Japan's Foreign Minister. In Britain President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman could devote his entire time to the trade war he had declared against Japan. In Geneva a League of Nations strategy board could concentrate on a proper reply to the Japanese charge of League interference in China, in Nanking the Foreign Office could give its undivided attention to the new Japanese doctrine of a moral protectorate over China...
...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...
...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...
...next day handsome, deaf U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew went ambling around himself. Harvardman, socialite, longtime Ambassador to Turkey with two daughters married into the service, Ambassador Grew is generally considered the ablest of U. S. career diplomats. He remained closeted for a long time with Foreign Minister Koki Hirota last week in an effort to obtain an official text of the statement on Chinese policy with which Japan startled the Western world fortnight...
Japan's out, of course, was that there was no official text of the statement, as made orally by the Japanese Official Spokesman, Eiji Amau. In Tokyo, therefore, two identical notes were delivered to the British and U. S. Embassies from Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. It was explained that these were Japan's only official utterances on the subject of her policy toward China. Japan withdrew nothing of importance, but there were many soothing omissions. Japan had no intention of abrogating the Nine Power Treaty, or of interfering with the "purely commercial'' interests of other powers...