Word: uchida
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...this Imperial orphanage went the peers of Japan last week, some in grey silk kimonos, more in frock coats and high button shoes, to sit on stiff benches behind wooden desks and listen to a speech actually addressed to the entire world: an explanation by Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida of his country's foreign policy. Most cautiously, most meticulously was the speech prepared...
...Tokyo with his thin, attractive wife and son last week he stopped in San Francisco long enough to have a farewell party with every Japanese consul west of the Rockies. What they said was apparently reassuring. A few hours later Foreign Minister Uchida made his speech to the world...
...been speaking 60 seconds two facts were glaringly evident: 1) Japan is ready to give formal recognition to her puppet state of Manchoukuo immediately, and 2) she will take no back talk from the League of Nations. These prime points were made with all the suavity of which Count Uchida is capable and the introduction of a word new to newspaper headlines: fissiparous. Said Japan's Foreign Minister...
Suez to Kamchatka? There were two still more drastic ideas which Foreign Minister Uchida did not voice in his formal address but which other Japanese, nearly as potent politically, called to the world's attention. For a fortnight foreign correspondents had heard rumors that Count Uchida was about to formulate a "Japanese Monroe Doctrine.'' claiming the right to protect all Asia "from Suez to Kamchatka," except American & European possessions, from Western aggression, and that the originator to be cited for this idea was none other than the late great Theodore Roosevelt. Editors were unable to find any trace of such...
What Japan would say should Patrick Jay Hurley write such an article for the Army & Navy Journal, U. S. citizens could only guess. Uchida. Count Yasuya Uchida, the man who kept all this boiling by his historic "fissiparous" speech in the Diet, is a gracious, grey-haired gentleman of 67 who dresses exquisitely, is very fond of a cup of hot sake (rice whisky), has a fine collection of Chinese silk paintings and likes to sing old Japanese utai (folk ballads) in the garden of his home with a group of cronies. Only to patriotic Chinese do his black-socked...