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Vice President and Foreign Minister: General Count Francisco de Jordana, militarist veteran of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, intimate personal friend of President Franco. Rightist Foreign Affairs have previously been handled by Antonio de San Groniz, dropped from the present Cabinet...
Chicago Daily News's able China veteran A. T. Steele was last week the only correspondent to reach Shantung's Han. "It was evident." he cabled, "that General Han is a worried and unhappy War Lord-not the self-confident militarist this correspondent met on previous visits here...
...Empire could wish is Mr. Naotake Sato. In Tokyo his official rating was Ambassador to France last week, when suddenly he became Foreign Minister. Mr. Sato is emphatically a civilian, whereas the point of view of General-Premier Senjuro Hayashi's new "Gold Braid Cabinet" is extremely militarist (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), but the new Foreign Minister quickly made an adroit move. His civilian predecessors at the Foreign Office have tried to attend to their job as though the Japanese Cabinet was like any other co-operative Cabinet- whereas under the Japanese Constitution the exalted positions...
...Federal Reserve Board. As would have been the case in Wall Street, financial Tokyo was ''immensely relieved." Next followed a hammer blow. When Premier Hayashi first received imperial orders to form a Government, the "gold-braiders" clamored for Lieut. General Gen Sugiyama, an out-and-out militarist, to be War Minister. Premier Hayashi, however, with a show of tact, gave that portfolio to Kotaro Nakamura. Last week Kotaro Nakamura, after being in office for only one week, conveniently fell ill, and to the undisguised joy of the Army, General Sugi yama was given...
Japanese politeness when one is winning or has won seemed to account for a silky statement by that fiery militarist whose rambunctiousness in Parliament provoked the crisis, General Count Juichi Terauchi. "There is talk in the streets," softly ad mitted the Count, "but the Army has no intention of carrying out a Dictatorship or a Fascist regime...