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...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...
Stepping down from the Tribune, Japan's Matsuoka beckoned imperiously to the rest of his delegation, some members of which were known to oppose a dramatic exit. Obediently but rather slowly they rose, followed their Chief who marched firmly from the hall. In the lobbies, in the cloak room no non-Japanese spoke to Pariah Matsuoka. Impassive, he clipped a cigar, struck a match, puffed air mechanically, threw away the match, walked out unconscious that his cigar had failed to light. Cameras clicked. Cinemachines whirred. Up swept a bright limousine with the flag of the rising sun streaming from...
...When you come to think of it," said Mr. Matsuoka artfully to U. S. correspondents in Paris, "you must be convinced that the League committed an awful act. . . . The League is now making an attempt to elevate itself to the status of a superState. Is the world at this stage of progress really prepared to accept it? Are the Americans prepared to accept? Why, you aren't even prepared to join...
Quitting Geneva amid a few Japanese shouts of Banzai! ("May You Live 10,000 Years!") Japanese Chief Delegate Matsuoka sped by train to Paris, arrived there unable to make up his mind last week whether he ought to cross the Atlantic and "explain everything" to President Roosevelt or sail from Marseilles for Japan via the Suez Canal...