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...president of the South Manchuria Railway, a post that carried leadership of all Japanese interests in Manchuria, to direct the cocky demonstration of Japan's "right to Manchuria." By last week the Manchurian job was done and Count Uchida resigned to give way to a younger Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota, onetime Ambassador to Moscow. Observers called it "simply the substitution of a vigorous and unspent man for one who was weary...
...vigorous and unspent" substitute, merry-eyed little Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, 55, is well tuned to Araki's voice. He began his career as a protégé of two famed patriots (reactionaries). Mitsuru Toyama and Ryohei Uchida (no kin to the Count), now president of the notorious Black Dragon Society. But last week the Foreign Office hastily assured foreign correspondents that the new Minister's "ideas are practical and moderate as befits a statesman who has served in Washington and Europe." And Hirota himself followed this up by calling "hopeful . . . the outlook for amity between Japan...
...Japanese worries, spies reported that supplies of Soviet ammunitions and machine guns were appearing mysteriously in the Manchurian camps of Chinese "Generals" hostile to Japan. Such threats were no mere League of Nations note or invocation of a shadowy Pact of Paris. Post-haste the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, Koki Hirota, rushed around to make a deal at the Soviet Foreign Office with that very cold Red fish, Comrade Leonid M. Karakhan...