JAPAN: Matsuoka's Homecoming

Japanese bugles in China are not so loud as Japan's bugle diplomat, Yosuke Matsuoka. After he stalked out of the League of Nations' conference on Manchuria last February, he sounded off for Japan through France, Britain and the U. S. Back home, the Japanese glowed proudly at Matsuoka's Japanism. Even Occidental diplomats were impressed by the single-mindedness of this little U. S.-educated yellow man. He had yielded not an inch on Japan's claims. Last week Matsuoka arrived in Tokyo.

As he stepped into the big station plaza a roar of "Banzai!" from 20,000...

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