The writer of a book which is arousing considerable controversy and interest, Mr, Midori Komatsu, has been in the Japanese diplomatic service for decades, in fact ever since the time of Prince Ito, who was perhaps the chief factor in the negotiations regarding the annex: tion of Korea to Japan. The thread of the story embracing the "Secrets of Japan's Diplomacy" is, for the most part, wound around Viscount Goto, who at present is being feted in Soviet Russia as a private ambas-jor of the Premier, Baron Tanaka, is a disquisition into the ques-jon of whether Japan should adopt
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