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Spoiled Japan- This was Japan's cue to stick out her tongue at the World, and in Philadelphia the job was neatly done by Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito, the virile young tippler who announced: "My chief purpose in coming here is to drink whiskey with good Americans" (TIME...
Recalling that the U. S. consistently maintains its need for large war boats of long-range striking power, Ambassador Saito rapped: "Such need may well be justified when war in distant waters is envisaged; but not when only security in home waters is contemplated. [Such ships] may be indispensable for aggression, but not for defense...
Having thus branded the U. S. a potential aggressor, Ambassador Saito polished off his oration by reminding Philadelphia that Japan is perfectly willing to scrap the greater part of her Navy if only the U. S. and Britain will scrap more and bring themselves down to naval equality with the Son-of-Heaven's realm...
...infinite wisdom the chief naval treaties to which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with the U. S. and Great Britain. Though addressed to His Majesty, the sea dogs' demands were really aimed at the Premier, a sea dog himself. Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito. He promptly invoked a convenient fiscal scandal (the Vice Minister of Finance had been in jail on charges of bribery since mid-May) and the entire Cabinet resigned, leaving everything in the lap of 85-year-old Prince Saionji...
...Okada ordered opened up in the Premier's Official Residence the room in which "Old Fox" Inukai was done to death. Furnished in Japanese style, this room is covered with mats on which statesmen may squat as their forefathers did. Since the assassination squatting has been taboo, with Premier Saito using chairs and tables in the new style rooms of the Official Residence. Last week Premier Okada went enthusiastically back to squatting. He called back to their portfolios the outstanding members of the Saito Cabinet except famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi in whose department the bribe scandal had occurred...