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grip and swing with imaginary clubs during the excellent buffet
supper. The golf films were sandwiched between the usual silly
musical cartoons, but the Japanese seemed to enjoy them. They
were expressively appreciative of the party.

SECRETARY STIMSON'S "VILE, PROVOCATIVE"

SPEECH
August 15, 1932

The next event, which called me from a few days of refreshment
at Karuizawa back to Tokyo, from August 10 till the i3th, was the
outburst in the Japanese press against Mr. Stimson's speech before
the Council on Foreign Relations. Neville .went down too. At this
writing I have not yet seen the text of the speech, which I believe was
delivered on August 7, so that I don't yet know just what was said,
but so far as can be gathered from the latest press dispatches, the
Secretary spoke of die application of the Kellogg Pact to the Far
Eastern situation in an academic way and did not directly charge
Japan as the aggressor. However that may be, the dynamic Mr.
Shiratori told the Japanese press that all Japan was indignant at
Mr. Stimson's charges and the newspapers came out with such
slurring comments as " malicious propaganda," " highly improper,"
" imprudent utterance," " vile and provocative," and so on. For
two days the vernacular press was full of it, and the tone was not a
bit conducive to good relations between Japan and the United States.
The text, when it finally came to me after the incident was closed,
showed that the speech contained nothing whatever at which Japan
had any good reason to take offence. Japan has consistently main-
tained that she acted in self-defence in Manchuria, and the public
reaction of the Foreign Office to the speech was a surprising indication
of the guilty conscience.

JAPAN'S PRO-WAR, ANTI-LEAGUE PROPAGANDA

September i, 1932

When the Commission of Inquiry of the League of Nations visited
Tokyo in July, 1932, the Japanese press published concerted and
inspired articles affirming Japan's determination to pursue its " fixed
policy." This was partly for the benefit of the Commission, but also
partly to inspire the people to defy the League if necessary. The
Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. T. Shiratori, as already stated in the
diary, released to the Japanese press on August 9 an entirely uncalled-
for, inaccurate, and provocative interpretation of the speech of the
Secretary of State before the Council for Foreign Relations. This was
obviously released for the purpose of arousing nationalistic and anti-
American feeling.

The people throughout Japan (even school children) are being
urged to subscribe to funds for purchasing and-presenting to the