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...Economic Federation and the Foreign Office, the mission was organized last February, thoroughly feted in Tokyo, written up in a special supplement of the Osaka Mainichi and the Tokyo Nichi Nichi, blessed at length by the then Prime Minister Senjuro Hayashi, Finance Minister Toyotaro Yuki and Foreign Minister Naotake Sato and showered with confetti ribbons as it sailed from Yokohama on April 28. The party of ten Japanese industrialists had no intention of making any immediate trade agreements. Avowed their chairman, sunny President Chokyuro Kadono of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce: "The primary consideration . . . was that the courtesy shown...
...trim and whip-smart a little Japanese diplomat as the Empire could wish is Mr. Naotake Sato. In Tokyo his official rating was Ambassador to France last week, when suddenly he became Foreign Minister. Mr. Sato is emphatically a civilian, whereas the point of view of General-Premier Senjuro Hayashi's new "Gold Braid Cabinet" is extremely militarist (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), but the new Foreign Minister quickly made an adroit move. His civilian predecessors at the Foreign Office have tried to attend to their job as though the Japanese Cabinet was like any other co-operative Cabinet...
Rear Admiral Osamu Sato, the highest Japanese Naval official in China who is stationed there as naval attaché, divulged to correspondents that the Japanese Government is now pressing the Chinese Government to accept "certain mild general principles" which are actually harsher than Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands of 1915. Under the first "mild" principle, each Chinese Government army campaigning against Chinese Communists in the interminable civil wars and skirmishes must have with it a Japanese army of equal numbers. Under the second "mild" principle, each official of the Chinese Government, including those of its defense forces...
Everyone, including Mr. Sato, agreed that of course the Lausanne Treaty is to be torn up. Elected chairman of the Conference was Stanley Melbourne Bruce, one of the gallant Australians whom the Turks trounced at Gallipoli. Handsome Mr. Bruce, now High Commissioner of Australia in London, was gravely wounded during the slaughter of his countrymen by the Turks. Last week he asked Dr. Aras to please be considerate about the graves of Australian War dead in excavating for Dardanelles fortifications. This the swarthy, squint-eyed little Turk politely promised, patting the stalwart, pink-cheeked Australian reassuringly on the back...
...this Britain & Japan opposed shoulder-to-shoulder demands that "equal rights of passage in either direction should exist for all nations." Stanhope and Litvinoff were soon quarreling and Japan's dry Mr. Sato said: "Even if the British recede from the Anglo-Japanese position, Japan will not recede...