The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
(NEA Service Writer)

| WaShfngton.-TWo Of the cap-
 itals favorite diplomats, both ex-
 traordinary Orientals, were pitted against each other in the interna-
 tional maneuvers of Japan and China during the Manchurian inn broglio.
 Katsuji Debuchi, the round-faced little Japanese ambassador, wears a perpetual grin and was his gov ernment's chief expert on Manchu- ria.
 Yung Kwai, who has been at the Chinese legation here for half a century, presented the Ranking governments case to the United States. He is the counsellor of the legation and in the absence of the minister is charge d'affaires.
 Yung Kwai held that Japan flag rantly violated sacred treaty rights by a wantom invasion.
 Katsuji Debuchi held that it was matter only of minor concern and strictly between the Japanese and Chinese.
 It must be disconcerting for Secretary Stimson, on Debuchi's s daily pop-ins at the state depart ment. Stimson has taken the thing pretty seriously. Perhaps Debuchi is more serious when closeted with the secretary than he is outside. But it was Debuchi who cabled Tokio and, in effect, advised his government not to be so darned snooty and dignified as to vote against letting our repre- sentative sit in on the leagues Manchurian deliberations at Gen eva.
 MT Debuchi, his feet high from the floor as he sits in his swivel chair, tells you Japan was only in- terested in protecting Hives and property" Then he stops and grins more broadly than ever and says in effect: How do you like them for apples?" You automati- cally think of the state depart ment's old explanations of marine expeditions into Nicaragua and Haiti and you imagine MT Debu- chi meant you to think of it. Then he speaks of the Manchurian dis pute as a regional affair" and implies it was nobody's business ex- cept China's and Japan's. He stops again and winks. And you real ize that, without saying so, he Is still drawing deadly parallel with American military opera tions under the Monroe Doctrine. You sympathize with what must have been the embarrassment of MT Stimson at having to meet that sort of argument.
 You say you know he Is very busy and will be getting along now and he bounces from his chair with the protest: 'I am never busy. And (more chuckles) I never wor- ry!" The first part of which, at least, is a flo.
 If the Tokio government hadn't the greatest confidence in Dubu- chi he would hardly have been in a position to urge 1t to reverse its position at Geneva in regard to American representation. Few ambassadors would have had the confidence to do that. Premier Shidehara of Japan has never been in China. Debuchi not only servedl there, but was head of the foreign office division which deals with Chinese affairs. He was about to leave his post here when the Manchurian situation arose and he was kept here to handle this end of it. One can only guess as to whether Debuchis efforts were what kept this government from vigorously protesting Japa- nese acts in Manchuria.
 Debuchi wears the dark, con- servative dress of an American business man and his recreational hobby is golf. Mme Debuchi also has abandoned oriental styles. or ders her dresses from New York and wears American shoes which she admits hurt her feet a great deal.
 Yung Kwai has been here long-' CT than any other diplomat. He has seen a procession of Chinese ministers come and go. Often. as now. he has been in charge of the