Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position which the Liberal Club has taken has been considerably influenced by their apprehensions at the heavy representation of the National Student League. A spokesman for the Club has made the following statement concerning the stand it has taken: "The Liberal Club does not wish to adhere to a group whose decisions are not in accord with those liberal principles held by its delegates. Therefore, our delegates have been instructed to withdraw from the conference if, in their opinion, the resolutions passed by it contravene their own liberal principles. Indications have it, however, that the meeting will be guided...
...think that Japan is committed by treaty to respect the Open Door in Manchukuo," was Spokesman Amau's parting shot. "She merely declared publicly that she would do so. She is not committed...
Diplomats are supposed to be a tactful tribe, but in Tokyo owl-eyed Mr. Eiji Amau, famed Official Spokesman of Japan's Foreign Office, continues to carve out of tactlessness a great career. Many Japanese expect to see him Premier some day. Last week Official Spokesman Amau fairly surpassed himself when mockingly he announced that if the Great Powers dislike Japan's far-sighted and ingenious oil policy, "they can appeal to China...
Tokyo papers were forbidden last week to print the fact that patient, persuasive U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew and his British and Dutch colleagues of the diplomatic corps were protesting both the Japanese oil law and the Manchukuo monopoly. At the Foreign Office truculent Spokesman Amau refused even to discuss the former. "Japan," said he, "is a sovereign state...
When Mr. Amau was reminded that Ambassador Grew and the other protesting diplomats accuse Japan of violating Article III of the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922 which guaranteed the "Open Door" to all Great Powers in what is now Manchukuo, Japan's spokesman triumphantly quibbled: "It is not then Manchukuo...