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Occasionally staccato news flashes broke in: The Abe Cabinet is definitely out . . . Prince Konoye is being urged . . . General Hata will almost certainly be chosen if the Army consents...
...Admiral Yonai was himself amazed at the Emperor's choice, the people of Japan were more so. The White Elephant was certainly a dark horse. The appointment of General Shunroku Hata, War Minister in the fallen Cabinet, had been so generally taken for granted that afternoon that newspapers came out with extras announcing his appointment as a fact. Office seekers prematurely crowded the Hata home to congratulate...
...worried about financial matters because he had achieved the major political triumph of persuading former Finance Minister Sotaro Ishiwata to demean himself to be the Premier's own secretary; nor about military matters because the Emperor had taken the spectacular, unprecedented step of calling in General Hata to bid the Army obey the Cabinet...
...said some of Japan's shortages and hardships could be avoided if the light industries, with the vital export trade they nourish, were not sacrificed for the sake of war industries. Last week Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita was repeatedly criticized. And Ryozo Makino bitterly attacked War Minister Shunroku Hata for keeping military finances secret. "The people are uneasy," warned Member Makino. But War Minister Hata bluntly refused to reveal military expenses, and when debate began to sizzle, he coolly cut off the stenographic record of proceedings...
...Army seethed. Dietarian Saito had "belittled Japan's holy war and defiled the souls of hundreds of thousands of dead" (official Japanese figures on Japanese dead: 70,000). War Minister General Shunroku Hata appeared before the lower House to answer the Saito attack with a charming speech about "peace in East Asia," "universal brotherhood," "good neighborliness" and a still undefined "New Order...