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...General Araki caught it. As the epidemic was brought under control he was said to have pneumonia. With Parliament about to reassemble this week Japan's politicians looked for a chance to reassert themselves as the War Minister lay abed. Japan's new Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, recently her Ambassador to Moscow, hoped for a chance to launch with caution a somewhat more conciliatory policy toward Russia...
...this is the retirement of General Araki as Minister of War and his replacement by a man, who, in all likelihood, will confine himself to the army and make no attempt to interfere in purely political problems. Japan from now on, according to Premier Saito and Foreign Minister Hirota, will pursue a pacific foreign policy and, while her relations with Russia leave something to be desired, the talk of war with that country has no real basis in fact, and relations will soon be improved; in line with this policy a rigid censorship will be imposed upon the Japanese press...
...formed by Japan at all but was merely rebeling spontaneously against the Chinese. Japanese foreign policy during the last few decades has, in fact, been characterized by a species of dissembling which makes up in brazenness what it lacks in cleverness. Consequently, I think that the announcement of Hirota that military participation in Japanese diplomacy has come to an end should be taken with several large and hefty grains of salt...
With the amazing brazenness which has made her famous, Japan, represented by M. Hirota, has demanded that the Soviet Union withdraw her troops from Southern Siberia, since their presence is taken by Tokio as an "unfriendly gesture." Nothing, of course, is further from the Kremlin's mind than to leave the Vladivostok salient wholly unprotected, as Molotov said in so many words, discarding diplomatic disguise. It is perfectly true that the Soviet garrisons and the lower territory itself will be lost instantly when war begins: Manchukuo is so placed that the Japanese will have no trouble whatever in splitting...
Against this bull-like entrance by Militarist Araki into the china shop of world diplomacy, the Japanese Foreign Office dared not protest directly, but Yomiuri, a Tokyo newspaper close to Foreign Minister Hirota, cautiously declared: "The Foreign Office is believed to oppose the Conference since the idea behind it is based on lack of real knowledge of the international situation...