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...Japan the Foreign Office spokesman said bluntly that the "main reason" why his Government would have none of the Hoover proposals last week was the refusal of Washington to assent to what Japan has done in Manchuria. I ask you to remember," said Japanese War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, tut-tutting the Hoover proposals, "that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible...
Since Premier Inukai had been assassinated by men of the fighting services, Japanese public opinion assumed that War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki must hand in his resignation, demanded by Japanese custom. Instead General Araki took the line that Premier Inukai had been assassinated by cadets and therefore it would be sufficient if General Nobuyoshi Muto, Director of Military Education, should resign. This he did-and was promptly raised to membership in the Supreme War Council. Meanwhile the police continued to hold secret the names of the assassins of Premier Inukai who voluntarily gave themselves up. From the first, strong...
...Excellency Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, Minister of War (after a 20-minute audience with the Son of Heaven. Emperor Hirohito): "So far as I can learn the events of today were designed to purify politics...
...Japanese War Minister General Sadao Araki harangued Japanese Fascists in Osaka: "We are determined to make Manchuria an earthly paradise and nothing can stop us! There is no need to pay any attention to the Washington Nine-Power Treaty or the Peace Pact. If the League of Nations interferes we need only ask, Is the League going to disturb world peace...
Japanese politicians, more fearful than ever of a military coup d'etat, tried to save the Empire's parliamentary system last week by yielding abjectly to War Minister Sadao Araki, reshuffling some Cabinet posts at the military clique's behest, appropriating all the money demanded by the fighting services and nastily adjourning the Diet before worse should befall. The Opposition (Minseito) Party, not daring to oppose, wailed a public prediction through the lips of Deputy Gotaro Ogawa that Japan's occupation of Manchuria will soon have cost 300,000,000 yen ($100,000,000 current rate)?a vast...