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Roosevelt on his summer trip to Hawaii would confer with Japanese bigwigs who would meet him half way across the Pacific at Honolulu. Efforts to check these reports found the White House noncommittal, but Ambassador Saito hotly told Washington correspondents, "It must be imagination...
...Saito had just escorted to the White House the President of Japan's House of Peers, tall, fortyish Prince Fumimaro Konoye. who is in the U. S. as a "Goodwill Ambassador." Snapped Ambassador Saito: "The only thing I can imagine is that the President voluntarily told us he was going to Hawaii and expressed the wish to go to Japan. However, he said that would be impossible. That was every word that was said...
Japanese politicians have taken over the respectable Occidental practice of accepting financial support from Big Business, but the new custom still smells rank in old Japanese nostrils. Twice scandal has invaded the Cabinet of harassed Premier Makoto Saito, smoked out two of its members. It seemed only a question of time until the great Bank of Taiwan scandal should smear the Cabinet. Last week...
Once again Premier Saito's Cabinet seemed about to collapse under him. His veteran Finance Minister, Viscount Korekiyo Takahashi, Hideo's Cabinet boss, had a resignation ready in his top drawer. Premier Saito told newshawks: "It's one damned thing after another...
...delegation out of the League of Nations. Koki Hirota was popped into the office before most Japanese militarists realized what was brewing. Conspirators Saito and Saionjii knew that fundamentally Minister Hirota is as ardent a nationalist as any Black Dragon could wish, but they hoped & prayed that his long service in the diplomatic corps would make him more discreet and softspoken. Minister Hirota's method of being discreet and soft-spoken while carrying on Japan's policy of expansion is to supply the words and let anonymous spokesmen voice them. Last week excitable Tokyo papers were demanding...