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...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...
What determined little Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota smokes is no peace pipe. Although His Excellency is a civilian, Japan's wary militarists have come little by little to the conclusion that here at last is a Japanese diplomat of their own stuff. They freely declared to foreign correspondents in Tokyo last week their "regret" that the death of King George must have largely crowded out of the world press the "historic" address delivered last week to the Japanese Diet by suave but hard Mr. Hirota...
...leaders said Japan's troops had been instructed by the "highest authority" (the Son of Heaven) not to move into China without an Imperial Order-something august and rarely given. In Tokyo suppressed excitement grew so thick that Japanese would not have been surprised had civilian Foreign Minister Koki Hirota or War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima been assassinated last week. Japan's man-on-horseback, Emperor Hirohito, and China's Generalissimo Chiang seemed momentarily to face each other in a nose-to-nose stalemate...
...neither Ambassador Saito nor his enterprising staff would deny that their task has been made infinitely easier than that of their predecessors. A prime source of diplomatic boondoggling has been removed. For since Saito has been in the U. S., his great & good friend cocky Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota has torn the mask off Japan's "mission in the Orient," has come out flatly and finally for Asia for the Asiatics, i. e. the Japanese. An illustration of how neatly this mission was progressing was at hand last week. After months of negotiation, Foreign Minister Hirota was about...