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Russia last week recalled her Ambassador to Japan, professorial, burly Constantin Smetanin-"to report...
...clashes sputtered all week. Having made an issue of Soviet mines laid in the Japan Sea, Japan claimed they were illegal floating mines, that two Japanese fishing boats had been sunk by them. Anticipating the enlargement of this or some other issue, Russia's Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin sent his and other Soviet embassy wives home to the U.S.S.R...
Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, who had little to do now that Japan's policy was definitely decided, took to his bed with a minor, or political, illness. There Russian Ambassador Constantin Smetanin tracked him down, spent a nervous hour and a half trying to get an assurance that Japan would not stick a knife in his country's back...
...last week, when the annual talks began, there was a new, serious air about them. For one thing, Russia's new Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin knew what he was talking about. He used to be a professor of ichthyology. Furthermore, Ambassador Smetanin was appointed to his post the day Japan agreed to a truce in the Outer Mongolian border fighting-after Russia had trounced the seatful pants off the Japanese Army. He was in a position to dictate...
...hope that Russia reciprocates our desire in all sincerity." Domei News Agency, which plays Little Sir Echo to the Foreign Office, advocated concluding a non-aggression treaty with Russia "without paying the slightest attention to displeasure felt and loudly voiced by Britain and the U. S." This week Ambassador Smetanin had an audience with the Son of Heaven, H. I. M. Hirohito...
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