Word: uchida
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...Tokyo the abrupt Geneva volte-face put fear into Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida, who was most earnestly counseled by the Last of the Genro ("Elder Statesmen") Prince Saionji not to break with the League "until every possibility of compromise has been exhausted." The Count flashed fresh instructions to Japan's Geneva Delegation. Soon with a face all crinkling smiles Delegate Matsuoka announced that Japan accepts the League's Lytton Report as a basis for conciliation, merely stipulating that the League shall "take into consideration actual conditions in Manchuria since the conclusion of the Lytton Report...
...popular doubt that the massing of U. S. warships in the Pacific was a naval gesture against Japan. But diplomacy still kept a smiling front. Last month when the question of the U. S. maneuvers was raised in the Japanese Diet's budget committee, Foreign Minister Uchida vetoed as "improper" a suggestion that diplomatic representation be made to the U. S. on that score...
Flabbergasted by this thrust, Foreign Minister Uchida could think of no better retort than, "Our Foreign Policy is conducted with the will of the people and the co-operation of the Army...
...Finish! Finish!" Dramatically, two days later, the Tokyo government was interpellated on Count Uchida's speech by Deputy Hitoshi Ashida. a seasoned diplomat and often spokesman on foreign affairs for the Seiyukai Party, largest in the Diet...
...Manhattan lives Singer's aristocratic, Vandyke-bearded President Sir Douglas Alexander, Bart, a loyal subject of George V. The Singer building in Yokohama is owned by a Swiss. Last week the U. S. Embassy and the Swiss Legation in Tokyo hotly protested to Japanese Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida. He was "very sorry," promised police protection for Singer property throughout Japan...