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Baron Kijuro Shidehara sat in his sumptuous, high ceilinged office at the Japanese Foreign Ministry last week, seeking by every means to prevent a clash between Chinese and Japanese in China, and to persuade Great Britain and the U. S. not to follow up their shelling of Nanking (TIME, April 4), with still more vigorous measures to protect Occidental lives and property...
From Peking the U. S. Minister, John Van Antwerp MacMurray made a hurried trip to visit Baron Shidehara in Tokyo, endeavoring to convince the Japanese Foreign Minister of the soundness of his own views. What they said was naturally privy to themselves; but Mr. MacMurray is widely believed to favor much sterner measures toward China than are approved by President Coolidge; and consequently Baron Shidehara almost certainly was obliged to assume his most courteous, most waxlike smile...
...Therefore, the French avoided every clash with Chinese last week; and only as a matter of dire necessity did some Japanese Marines at Hankow unlimber their machine guns to disperse a Chinese mob which attempted to loot the Japanese concession there. Two Chinese were killed; but if Baron Shidehara can manage it, their blood will not be the beginning of red freshets on Japanese steel...
...Shidehara. Foreign Minister Shidehara must have been speculating anxiously, last week, upon what attitude the U. S. would take toward intervention in China. Since Baron Shidehara was Counsellor of the Japanese Embassy at Washington in 1912, and Ambassador from 1919 to 1922, he is not ignorant of U. S. psychology; and he was aware of Calvin Coolidge as Vice President...
Perhaps, last week, the Baron wished a little bitterly that he had taken more note of the Massachusetts lawyer who seemed in 1921 so dwarfed by Ohioan President Warren Gamaliel Harding. Last week Baron Shidehara knew that President Coolidge was receiving the very strongest British urging to intervene, backed by an appeal from the U. S. Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai to the same effect...