JAPAN: Weary Count
No shirker is square-faced Count Yasuya Uchida, until last week Japan's Foreign Minister. Thrice Foreign Minister in his prime, he was 67 and getting deaf last year when his Emperor called him back to gloss over Japan's Manchurian grab. Then he resigned as 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,...
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