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...Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai was amazed and wildly happy. He had been aloft in giddy rigging before-had climbed to power (as Admiral of the Combined Fleet, beginning in 1936) and into politics (as Navy Minister in three crucial Cabinets, 1937-39). But seldom had he dared dream of touching this uppermost skysail of influence...
Last week a new Cabinet was in power, and because it comprised a few comparatively subtle politicians, no slogan was coined, no promise made. But like seasoned troupers, Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai and his assistants ad-libbed while busily contriving how to end the farce and bring down the curtain...
...Japan's Army has always insisted that Chiang had to go before it would even talk about peace. The Navy, arguing that it would be folly to conclude a nominal peace affecting only the occupied areas, has favored going straight to the Generalissimo. Japan's new Premier, Mitsumasa Yonai, is Commander in Chief of the Navy. It looked last week as though some day the right men in Japan might get talking with the right men in China...
...confusion, the Cabinet which took its place was not militaristic, not chauvinistic, not even mystic-was for down-to-earth opportunism rather than any magic clichè of expansion. Worst of all, its Premier was a Navy man. And of all the Navy men in Japan, he was Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai -the tall, boyish, amiable, aristocratic, experienced (thrice Navy Minister), pro-U. S., moderate Naval Commander in Chief who last summer threw a monkey wrench into the proposed Rome-Berlin-Tokyo military machine. As Navy Minister he refused to put his great fleet at the disposal of two major countries...
...plan, as outlined to the Tokyo Diet's Budget Committee by Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, will provide $329,177,940 over a period of six years to supplement building now going on. The Admiral said that latest plans of the U. S. and Britain had been taken into account in mapping the program, and provision made for increases in case those countries should further jack up their building rate...