"Japan's foreign policy will be renovated," said Japan's sickly little strong man, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, soon after he stepped into power last July. Prince Konoye's new Foreign Minister, tall-talking Yosuke Matsuoka, put the matter more plainly. Said he: "The Japanese race rolled into a ball of fire and sweeping everything before it—that is the character of the new regime."
Foreign Minister Matsuoka began sending Japanese policy to the cleaners without delay. In the most drastic shake-up in the history of Japan's diplomatic service he recalled 40 diplomats suspected of leaning toward...
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