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...author quotes numerous secret diplomatic dispatches from Tokio to Washington during the Washington Conference, which were decoded and translated, showing that a policy of delay on the part of the British and Americans was sure to force the Japanese to retreat, as they did, from their demand for a ten-to-seven ratio. From this one would conclude, that, with the Black Chamber closed, the United States went into the London Naval Conference and will go into any future conference at a disadvantage, unless foreign powers follow Secretary Stimpson's example, "Stud poker is not a very difficult game after...
...increase in trading was the excitement in Manhattan's Raw Silk Exchange where trading reached almost 4.000 bales a day after being at 80 a few weeks ago. Startled pages and clerks hurried to put their summer linen-suits on a fortnight ahead of time. In Tokio, Japanese bears talked of harakiri. On the Coffee & Sugar Exchange, Manhattan, coffee continued its recent rise which had begun to die out; sugar started its first rally in months. Some $25,000,000 was added to the value of sugar supplies. Along the Gold Coast native farmers gathered in British villages...
...nominated yesterday by President Hoover to be the American Ambassador to Japan. The appointment was transmitted to the Senate yesterday afternoon. Mr. Forbes will succeed to the post now filled by another Harvard alumnus, William Richards Castle Jr. '00. Castle had been the only American Ambassador in Tokio since Charles MacVeagh...
...name of W. Cameron Forbes '92 was yesterday sent to Tokio, Japan to determine whether or not he is acceptable for the position of United States ambassador. Forbes at present has not decided whether or not he will accept the post...
Married. Prince Takamatsu, 25, naval officer, sportsman, art connoisseur, younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; and Princess Kikuko Tokugama, 19; in Tokio...