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...Yosuke Matsuoka arrived home from Geneva in a burst of glory, still talking sweetly to the rest of the world. ("I have become convinced that we can tell the American people what we have at the bottom of our hearts.") The Emperor sent him a case of sake and a cask of fish. But temporary fame began to fade. In one of his usual quick moves he resigned from the Diet and the Seiyukai Party to work for the dissolution of all parties in the interest of "national solidarity." thus becoming in late 1933 forerunner of a movement that...
Campaign by Diplomacy. In 1937 the second China war began and Mr. Matsuoka was made Cabinet advisory councilor in Prince Fumimaro Konoye's first Premiership. In March 1939 he again made one of his sudden resignations en route to better things, and reappeared in July 1940 as Foreign Minister. As an ardent expansionist and strong supporter of the Prince's plan for totalitarian one-party rule, he was Prince Konoye's choice...
...Much Talk? When he returned from his last junket to Berlin, Rome and Moscow, Mr. Matsuoka was welcomed at a mass meeting sponsored by the City of Tokyo and the Imperial Blue Assistance Association. Bubbling with his accomplishment, he told how he and Joseph Stalin had signed their Neutrality Pact...
...problems that Japan faced last week had brought the conflict between conservatives and the go-ahead group to the point of crisis. Between the hotheads of the Army and the conservatives represented by Baron Hiranuma and Masatsune Ogura, Yosuke Matsuoka was steering a perilous course, veering toward the activists, on whom he has always counted for support...
Having sold the democracies the seizure of Manchuria, having helped to sell Japan on defying the democracies, Mr. Matsuoka was perhaps now on the point of either having to unsell the Japanese on their grandest aspirations or selling them out to Hitler...