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Britain. In Tokyo, Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani called on British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie. He demanded that British authorities in Burma emulate the discretion of their Indo-Chinese neighbors by stopping munitions traffic. The British Government "found it difficult to make a prompt reply." By way of pressure, Japanese troops formed a tight landward ring around Hong Kong. The British prepared to resist. Hong Kong officials, archives and non-combatants were evacuated to Singapore and Manila...
...Japanese advanced on many fronts. Short, stout, bald, jolly Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, whom the Japanese like to call a "French-type diplomat," and short, popeyed, acid Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma, whose diplomacy smacks more of the German, had much to say after each advance...
...realized that it could not without dissolving itself as well. But it could not back down on its avowed plan without trading a scapegoat. And so, next morning, Admiral Nomura announced that the ship had been sunk at last, but that there had been one casualty: Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, who said it was all his fault...
...Manchukuo Opium Monopoly, financed by a Japanese loan, Mr. Fuller snapped, "There can be no question that the concern was established for the express purpose of extending and exploiting the smoking of opium!" Across the League table, as these charges were hurled, sat Japan's placid Masayuki Yokoyama, puffing a cigar. Japan has re-signed from the League and the U. S. has never belonged. After Mr. Fuller had wound up by calling the narcotic situation in Manchukuo a "menace to the United States," Mr. Yokoyama took refuge in the fact that Manchukuo had not even sent an observer...