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...Ribbentrop's smart, tough young men, Heinrich von Stahmer, went to Moscow, told Joseph Stalin's man Molotov what was afoot, and continued on to Tokyo. There he was known as ''Germany's masked special envoy." Nearly every day he went to see Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan's ambitious, daring Foreign Minister who is the backbone of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye...
...Japan's foreign policy will be renovated," said Japan's sickly little strong man, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, soon after he stepped into power last July. Prince Konoye's new Foreign Minister, tall-talking Yosuke Matsuoka, put the matter more plainly. Said he: "The Japanese race rolled into a ball of fire and sweeping everything before it-that is the character of the new regime...
Foreign Minister Matsuoka began sending Japanese policy to the cleaners without delay. In the most drastic shake-up in the history of Japan's diplomatic service he recalled 40 diplomats suspected of leaning toward the London-Washington Axis. Most experienced and important diplomat purged was Ambassador to Washington Kensuke Horinouchi, who is tactful, smooth and inoffensive, but decidedly no ball of fire. By last week five men had respectfully declined the post of Ball-of-Fire to Washington. Reason: relations between Japan and the U. S. are fast getting no better...
Before Japan can get very far in her new friendship she must overcome: 1) Russian suspicion of Japan, and 2) Japanese suspicion of Russia. Last week, coincidentally with the press campaign, Foreign Minister Matsuoka named a new Ambassador to Moscow: Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tate-kawa. A leader in the anti-British campaign since 1937, skillful, politically ambitious General Tatekawa remarked: "The British are a crafty lot, smooth-spoken but always with something up their sleeves. I can get along with the Russians better...
...more Britons were arrested. Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma rejected the British protest. The Cabinet issued its program, which revolved around a new but strangely reminiscent phrase: Greater East Asia (incorporating Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies, possibly Burma, in Japan's sphere of action). Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka warned: "The Japanese Government is through with toadying...