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...Japan's foreign policy will be renovated," said Japan's sickly little strong man, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, soon after he stepped into power last July. Prince Konoye's new Foreign Minister, tall-talking Yosuke Matsuoka, put the matter more plainly. Said he: "The Japanese race rolled into a ball of fire and sweeping everything before it-that is the character of the new regime...
...December 1938, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, then Premier of Japan, made a famous speech in which he proclaimed that Japan's aim was the creation of a New Order in East Asia. Ostensibly this meant that the Orient should be for Orientals, working in cooperation with each other; actually, it developed, it was to mean an Orient for the enjoyment of Japan. Recently, after a year and a half's retirement, Prince Konoye returned to power at the head of a quasi-fascist Government. Like a poor but ambitious woman who cocks a new feather...
Greatest phrasemaker in Japan is Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who invented Japan's vague rationalization for the war in China, "New Order in East Asia." A few months ago he minted another: shintaisei, "new structure...
...most interesting admonition to the men who will plan Japan's new structure was that shintaisei, whatever form it might take, should be permanent, "rendering possible the pursuance of any policy when necessity arises." If Fumimaro Konoye was to have his way, it looked as if Cabinets might change no more in Tokyo, and the Premiership (or at least the powerful military shadow behind it) might become permanent-hereditary, like the Shogunate and like the Throne. The only man who ever dared say no point-blank to Emperor Hirohito happens to be Fumimaro Konoye. He refused the Imperial Command...
...short time before Yosuke Matsuoka's boss, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, had talked a little with newsmen about the Foreign Minister and his terrifying job. A reporter asked what Mr. Matsuoka's policy would be. "Japan's foreign policy," said the Premier after thinking for a long time, "will be renovated." Everyone knew what he meant. Other less discreet Cabinet Ministers had indulged in a chorus of blatantly tough speeches. Japan, like Italy, was aboard the bandwagon of triumph, and for the first time Japanese statesmen openly aired their fantastic ambitions. Kobayashi (Commerce) declared: "A high degree...