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Adolf Hitler was moving fast to consolidate Europe for his grand offensive. But he did not neglect the rest of the world. In Tokyo Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka packed to go to Berlin by way of Moscow, preceded by Germany's Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott. On this trip Japan's part, if any, in the offensive will be settled. And so, perhaps, will the long-awaited Japanese-Russian non-aggression pact, which to Japan would mean Southward...
Snake's Egg. Plaintive voices were raised in Tokyo against Anglo-American belligerence. Foreign Minister Matsuoka, holding interviews twice a day, discovered that Great Britain and the U. S., Australia and The Netherlands Indies, were trying to "encircle" Japan. He even suggested that "the white race cede"; 1,200,00-mile Oceania, the islands of the south Pacific "to the Asiatics," i.e., Japan. The metaphor-of-the-week was produced by the Army's spokesman, Major Kunio Akiyama. Said he: "Japan has the heart of a dove of peace, but a snake-the United States and Great Britain...
Germany's Ambassador to Japan, Major General Eugen Ott, rushed around to the Foreign Office to demand of Foreign Minister Matsuoka what he meant by letting down Japan's Axis partner while that partner was trying to promote a Russo-Japanese non-aggression pact. Yosuke Matsuoka mumbled an "explanation to the press." He had referred to the Thailand-French Indo-China dispute, which Japan was already mediating. "Of course," added the flustered Foreign Minister, "Japan would be happy to mediate any dispute if the opportunity presented itself, but the entertainment of such a peaceful desire was something different...
...Japanese Diet Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka made a highly significant remark. In the event of a break between Japan and the U. S., said he, Russia would be taken care of by "prompt and effective steps." Talky Yosuke Matsuoka went on to explain that Japan's opposition to the extension of Communism in China had been an obstacle to a non-aggression pact with Russia, left his listeners to infer that if the U. S. got tough, Japan would give in on this point. In Moscow Japan's new Ambassador...
...Tokyo Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka took Cordell Hull to task for saying that the invasion of Manchuria was the first step in the destruction of world peace (TIME, Jan. 27). "The Manchurian affair," said talky, U. S.-educated Mr. Matsuoka (Oregon, '00), "was not the cause but the result of Anglo-Saxon interference in the Far East." As the Diet met to vote the Konoye Government unprecedented powers and an unprecedented $1,611,432,400 budget (not counting war expenses), the Foreign Minister found himself on his feet most of the time. He said everything he had ever said...