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...next day Japan's former Premiers conferred on the selection of a new leader. Even 91-year-old Count Keigo Kiyoura came from his sickbed, entering the Palace in a wheel chair, attended by a nurse, bringing with him an oxygen inhalator. In less than four hours the choice was made: a general, the son of a general, would be Premier. War Minister Lieut. General Eiki Tojo, a man of strong will and a friend of the Axis, was to head the nation. General Tojo hurried to the Emperor's presence and, leaving it, announced: "I have received...
Outlining the policy of his Government, he promised electoral reform, anticorruption measures, State economy ; decided against raising loans; declared that the supplementary estimates passed by ex-Premier Kiyoura would be introduced with only a few alterations...
...General Kazunari Ugaki (held same office in Kiyoura Cabinet...
...Ambassador, and his wife and her mother, Mrs. Marchand, were greeted on the station platform by Premier Kiyoura, Foreign Minister Baron Matsui and numerous Government and diplomatic politicians of note. Baroness Matsui presented a large bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Woods. Thousands of Japanese made the station tremble with their "banzais" and at one period the enthusiasm of the crowd was such that they broke the police cordons. It was a magnificent, friendly sendoff...
...Kiyoura Government went into office following the attempted assassination of the Prince Regent (TIME, Jan. 7). It was appointed by the Elder Statesmen and was always unpopular, holding power because of the impending wedding of the Prince Regent, a fact which earned for it the appellation "Imperial Wedding Cabinet." †He is not to be confused with Admiral Baron Tomasaburo Kato, onetime Premier, who headed the Japanese delegation at the Washington Arms Conference in 1921 and who died last Fall (TIME, Sept...