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Quite as anxious as Britain's Ramsay MacDonald for friendly relations with the U. S. is Japan's courtly Prime Minister, 66-year-old Baron Giichi Tanaka. Breaking the traditional oriental silence, last week, the grizzled Prime Minister, in his stocking feet, courteously received Correspondent Barnet Nover of the Buffalo News. A Japanese of the old school, Baron Tanaka never wears shoes except on formal state occasions. Rheumatic, he must be supported by a stalwart valet while being shod...
Correspondent Nover turned the subject to Japan's China policy and asked if the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung did not represent a "retreat" in Japan's foreign policy. Baron Tanaka frowned, twiddled his toes, replied: "There has been no retreat, because there never was any necessity for retreating. Our policy, now as ever, has been based on a desire to live at peace with the people of China. . . . Certain people however invented a theory regarding the government's policy at the time it came into power, and now to fit the theory to the facts...