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...sign this treaty when he heard about the anti-Communist pact, and last week members of the Japanese Privy Council, too angry to be discreet, blabbed that the Japanese Foreign Minister had himself unwittingly blabbed the secret in a conversation with the Soviet Ambassador to Japan, Comrade Konstantin Yurenev who of course flashed it to Litvinoff. The cost of this blunder to the Japanese fishing industry, according to its irate Tokyo tycoons last week, will run into the tens of millions...
...terms of sale were initialed in Tokyo last week by Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev and a General Ting, so-called Minister from so-called Manchukuo. Actually the real buyer was Japan through her shrewd Foreign Minister Koki Hirota at whose home the initialing took place...
...soldiers have been high-handedly arresting Soviet employes of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Aug. 27) along which Will Rogers jounced from Harbin to the Soviet frontier at Manchuli where he changed trains for Moscow. In Tokyo these arrests were strongly protested last week by Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev in a note which held Japan responsible for the acts of her puppet and concluded ominously: "The Government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics expects that the Japanese Government will make all necessary inferences...
Seemingly last week Japan was content to let the negotiations remain deadlocked at this point, encouraged Manchukuo to bait Russia. Instead of the release of Soviet railwaymen demanded by Ambassador Yurenev, 70 more were arrested in Manchukuo. In Moscow, where Josef Stalin is not anxious for a fight, correspondents were told that "Russia will not move unless her soil is trod upon." In Tokyo testy old War Minister Senjuro Hayashi, a lion in the field though some what of a peacock in a photographer's studio, blustered...
...complete and the Soviet will not be forced to sell too cheaply. The world powers understand the danger of Japanese armaments. . . ." As the week closed, nervous Mr. Hirota's friends insisted that despite the break in negotiations he would soon be prepared to haggle again with Ambassador Yurenev...