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...pieces were on the board for a new game of Empire, and Japan was pleased. In Tokyo, Prince Fumimaro Konoye sat with his new and venturesome military Cabinet, without the embarrassing presence of Yosuke Matsuoka, who had guessed wrong about German-Soviet relations. In Russia the bulk of the Red Army was anchored a comfortable 4,500 miles away from the Amur River and Vladivostok. Hitler's public-address system in Vichy had been tested, echoed his every word with admirable fidelity. Steaming south, somewhere in the China Sea, were warships of Japan's Fleet, transports of Japan...
...last week, in the midst of feverish preparations for war, the Cabinet of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye suddenly resigned. "Filled with trepidation" (according to polite formula), Prince Konoye backed out of the presence of Emperor Hirohito with orders to continue the administration of affairs until a successor could be found. While foreign correspondents in Tokyo were trying desperately to puzzle out what this meant, just as suddenly Prince Konoye emerged as his own successor, threw together a new Cabinet. "I am struck with a sense of great awe," observed Prince Konoye with high humor, "because of my poor ability...
...behave itself, is a certain Council For Launching National Policies, which is backed by that grey-bearded, ascetic fire-eater, Mitsuru Toyama, head of the Black Dragon Society. The Council For Launching National Policies has been holding public meetings, and lately it sent a spokesman to see Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. The Premier had one of his convenient colds, so the Council sent the Government a letter of advice, with a broad hint that the advice had better be followed...
...given to Japan's so delicate situation hung not only the future of Japan but the future of her most aggressive diplomat, Yosuke Matsuoka. To Foreign Minister Matsuoka, his future and Japan's are scarcely distinguishable, but it would be possible for Japan's Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and Japan's Privy Council and, above all, Japan's well-advised Emperor Hirohito to choose a course that would leave Mr. Matsuoka with no alternative but to resign. That would be the course of conservatism, of rapprochement with the U.S., of resistance to Germany. That course...
Campaign by Diplomacy. In 1937 the second China war began and Mr. Matsuoka was made Cabinet advisory councilor in Prince Fumimaro Konoye's first Premiership. In March 1939 he again made one of his sudden resignations en route to better things, and reappeared in July 1940 as Foreign Minister. As an ardent expansionist and strong supporter of the Prince's plan for totalitarian one-party rule, he was Prince Konoye's choice...