Word: matsuoka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked if he agreed with President Lowell's statements on Manchuria, Matsuoka said, "I have a great respect for President Lowell's opinion...
After escaping two plots to take his life, Yosuke Matsuoka, leader of the Japanese delegation to the League of Nations, called on President Lowell yesterday afternoon in the course of a short visit to the University...
...close of a 30-minute talk with the President in the latter's private office, Matsuoka granted a short interview to the CRIMSON. He refused to discuss the Manchurian question, remarking that he did not wish to talk about state affairs if he could avoid it. "I have agreed to make a few short speeches at private gatherings, and tonight I plan to address the Japan Society, but aside from that, my only statement about the League of Nations and Japan is that Japan wishes the League 'God speed.' I know I speak for the majority of my people when...
...Nation of Bandits!" Meanwhile in London last week, numerous subjects of George V whose sympathies remain with China gathered outside British Broadcasting House and cried, "Shame! Shame!" when a limousine drove up with Chief Japanese League Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka. As he entered the building an English voice shouted, "Japan is a nation of bandits...
Inside, tactful B. B. C. officials put Mr. Matsuoka in a broadcasting studio as far removed as possible from that occupied by China's spokesman of the evening. Ambassador Quo Taichi. Later, enclosed by a solid phalanx of Scotland Yard detectives, Japan's Matsuoka got safely away. "Because I am a Japanese," said he to U. S. correspondents, "I can sympathize deeply with the California earthquake sufferers. . . . Your economic crisis is largely psychological rather than material. I believe you will have a quick recovery...