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...into an Italian envoy. Poor Poppy Smith (Gene Tierney), highborn, incognito daughter of English Sir Guy Charteris (Walter Huston), has lost many of her vices; she doesn't even smoke opium. Lush Victor Mature, the poor man's Boyer, cast in a role replacing the original Prince Oshima, Poppy's Japanese traducer, is now Dr. (of nothing) Omar, a befezzed, leering, Levantine heel...
...doubtless asked to explain Adolf Hitler's rather belittling reference to Yosuke Matsuoka in his proclamation of war. (Hitler: "I myself advised Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka that eased tension with Russia always was in hope of serving the cause of peace.") In Berlin Japanese Ambassador Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima called on Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop for the same purpose...
Germany, Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima, stopped off for two days of intensive diplomatic activity with the Japanese Ambassador to Russia, Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, and with the German and Italian Ambassadors, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg and Augusto Rosso. That the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was bent on taking Russia into camp was plain. Before leaving for his post in Berlin, General Oshima beamed at correspondents and murmured: "Close Soviet-Japanese relations are . . . necessary to facilitate the construction of a new world order...
Since Oriental diplomacy and even war are nine-tenths Face, Japan's greatest shock aside from losing potential armed support against Russia was that Germany had not whispered a word of warning. Ambassador to Berlin Hiroshi Oshima hurried around to see Joachim von Ribbentrop soon after he got back from signing the Pact, taxing him with this slight. How long had this been in the wind? Why had he told Italy's Count Ciano and not him? Herr von Ribbentrop, who seemed to enjoy the situation, merely replied that consultations had been going on "for a considerable time...
Respected Mr. Hayashi is president of the highly profitable and progressive Tokyowan Kisen Kaisha (Tokyo Bay Steamship Co.) which is proudly building the world's first airflow liner. This streamlined Diesel beauty will speed tourists and prospective suicides from Tokyo 59 miles to the Island of Oshima in 3½ hours. President Hayashi has provided all sorts of conveniences to get passengers from the landing dock up sulphur-belching Mihara-yama (Mount Mihara) to popular Suicide Point on the crater's brim. One may even ride a camel, one of the first three ever imported into Japan...