Excitedly jostling each other last week, foreign correspondents in Tokyo elbowed in to their first interview with the Empire's new Premier, old-fashioned Admiral Keisuke Okada, who has put away his predecessor's swivel chair and insists on squatting on the mat-covered floor.
Quick-witted and self-possessed, Premier Okada let the newshawks peck him with impromptu questions about the issue closest to his heart as a Japanese Navy man. This issue all Japanese quarterdeckers passionately call "The 1935 Crisis." The Empire's life and honor are at stake, they...
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