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Japanese statesmen tend to become highly intoxicated on moderate victories. Last week the fall of Canton and Hankow acted on Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and the Japanese Foreign Office like a triple round of old-fashioneds at a meeting of a Browning Club. It is no new thing for Japanese jingoes outside the Cabinet to boast that in a few years Japan will kick the West out of the East, but for the Premier and Foreign Office to go so far as they went in Tokyo last week was unprecedented...
Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye last week cried accusingly at French Ambassador Charles Arsène-Henry: "The most important route left for transportation of arms to [Chinese Generalissimo] Chiang is through French Indo-China and China is now reported active there...
Meanwhile large-eared, sharp-featured President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth journeyed to Tokyo on a "recreational" visit. His recreation included serious talks with Japanese Foreign Minister General Kazushige Ugaki, a dinner attended by Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. This led correspondents to cable that the Philippine President was angling for assurances from these high Japanese officials that Japan had no designs on the islands when the Philippines obtain their independence from the U. S. in November 1945, as now scheduled. The U. S. Philippine Ordinance expressly forbids the Filipinos any direct participation in foreign affairs until...
...home, the Government of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was forced to pull Japan's belt a little tighter to cope with the gnawing of war on her financial stomach. It decreed that some 47 types of articles (most important: cotton cloth and iron products), would no longer be produced for Japanese consumption. As soon as present stocks are exhausted, the populace will switch to staple fiber, synthetic materials...
...times governments change, and within the Cabinet of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye change has long been expected. Premier Konoye has faced the demands of industrialists and "moderate" military men in his Cabinet that Japan halt her offensive and limit the campaign to the occupation of the "conquered" territory. On the other hand, the Cabinet's military ' "extremists" insist that Japan push on to the final goal, i. e., control of all of China and the fall of Chiang Kaishek...