Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having taken affairs right out of the hands of Minister of Commerce Joji Matsumoto, Foreign Minister Hirota last week summoned his trusty Official Spokesman, curly haired Eiji Amau. At the end of their interview the latter went out to the Press and parroted...
Japan's out, of course, was that there was no official text of the statement, as made orally by the Japanese Official Spokesman, Eiji Amau. In Tokyo, therefore, two identical notes were delivered to the British and U. S. Embassies from Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. It was explained that these were Japan's only official utterances on the subject of her policy toward China. Japan withdrew nothing of importance, but there were many soothing omissions. Japan had no intention of abrogating the Nine Power Treaty, or of interfering with the "purely commercial'' interests of other powers...
Nervous about its effect, Foreign Minister Louis Barthou brought to a cabinet meeting two drafts of a note to be sent to Britain. After heated debate led by Premier Doumergue, a majority of the Cabinet voted for the stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved...
Tokyo's Eiji Amau is a Japanese of distinction. He has very curly hair parted in the middle and he is that useful anonymity referred to in cable dispatches as "a Foreign Office spokesman." Last week Spokesman Amau assembled most of the foreign correspondents in Tokyo and announced in careful, precise English what was instantly recognized as the most important statement of Japanese policy in the Far East since the famed 21 Demands imposed on China by Japan in 1915. Excerpts...
...other hand, London expresses gentle wonder at the probably accurate report of the unofficial spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Office. With shy remoteness, it makes no comment save that it has asked its Legation to secure an official report from Japan. This, of course, is the expected move. While awaiting the official statement, London will meditate with fasting and with prayer on its impending answer. In the meantime, it will probably deepen its concentration on possible methods of combatting the annoying increase of Japanese trade with India. Emerging from its anchoritic contemplation, London will point tactfully but firmly to treaty...