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Meanwhile, during the past month, the Committee of Nineteen's sub-Committee of Nine had been playing a diddling game of questions & answers with Japanese Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, each side trying to outdo the other in feats of diplomatic finesse. This parlor pastime abruptly ceased as the sub-Committee buckled down to drafting the suggestions of M. Massigli and Captain Eden into form for action by the Assembly...
...Perfect Emperor" and in "The Way of the Warrior," Lieut.-General Araki sometimes abbreviates by the term "Japanism," urges Japan's representatives abroad to explain and spread its gospel. Best explanation so far is that of Japanese Delegate to the League of Nations Yosuke Matsuoka, who represents Japan in Geneva this week and recently declared: "Japan can offer spirituality to America and to the entire Western world. . . . Japanism is a world communism of moral responsibility, ideals, obligations and honor, unlimited by time, unbounded by distance or area and irrespective of race or nationality. . . . No individual has arisen...
There could be no objection to such recognition. As a matter of fact Japan's Geneva Delegate, suave Yosuke Matsuoka, felt obliged to "congratulate" Comrade Litvinov?but soon after they shook hands Japanese stock prices began to fall. "The elements most disturbing to the peace of the world have now joined hands," cried the Japanese Foreign Office press spokesman in Tokyo. "Japan stands squarely against these forces...
These preliminaries over last week. Delegate Matsuoka hurried on to Geneva and presented to the League a 40,000-word rebuttal to the Lytton report on Manchuria which she had made Manchukuo. It was simple and blunt. Japan denies that in invading Manchuria she violated either the League Covenant, the Kellogg Pact, or the Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing Chinese sovereignty. Japan denies that Manchuria is an integral part of China. Japan denies that her army acted except in self defense. Once again Japan makes the excuse that she merely protected a revolt-started by Manchurian nationalists. Japan will neither accept...
...League Council chair while Mr. Matsuoka talked, sat President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State. Once or twice Lord Lytton reddened as the Japanese diplomat gave the Lytton Report the courteous lie direct. With head thrown back China's Smart Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo stared at the ceiling until Mr. Matsuoka sat down and the council recessed...