Word: spokesman
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Demands. Meanwhile, the four Chinese "murderers" were all but forgotten as the Japanese military made it clear that they were out to eliminate British, and possibly other, interests in China. Hereafter, a military spokesman at Tientsin said, Britain must be prepared to "cooperate" with Japan in the Far East, must drop her "pro-Chiang Kaishek" policy...
Arriving in Hsinking, capital of Manchukuo, Japanese Foreign Office Spokesman Tatsuo Kawai outlined for correspondents Japan's program for dealing with Western powers in China: 1) elimination of all foreign Concessions; 2) reorganization of international settlements; 3) blotting out of all anti-Japanese activities in foreign areas. Elaborated Spokesman Kawai: "The days of foreign settlements in China are numbered...
...Japanese beat everybody to the protest, complained to British Consul General Sir Herbert Phillips against R. M. Tinkler's "lawlessness toward a Japanese uniform." Said an Embassy spokesman: "That Japanese marines should have disarmed Tinkler and manhandled him is to be expected under the circumstances. We are surprised he was not killed on the spot." British were investigating...
Stronger-than-usual British and French protests were lodged at Tokyo's Foreign Office. Embarrassed more than angered were the Germans, associates of Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact, but they also protested. While by week's end the Japanese had given no official answer, her Navy spokesman at Shanghai announced that Japan would search for "military supplies" any ship operating within 200 miles of the Chinese coast. The spokesman added: "It is not a question of rights, but of what the Japanese Naval authorities demand...
...bolder and bolder in their demands for control of the Shanghai International Settlement, it began to appear that the Japanese were becoming desperate about the war still dragging on in China, just as in 1917 the Germans began to be desperate enough to torpedo neutral shipping again. A Shanghai spokesman hinted, however, that U. S. ships would escape the search-&-seizure methods applied to ships of other nationalities. That was understandable, since the U. S. has in the Pacific the only Navy that could protect its seagoing nationals...