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Next day War Minister Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki stood up before a Parliament which just a few hours before the explosion had been told to shoot the Japanese budget skyhigh, appropriating 4,600,000,000 yen (about $1,242,000,000) for war. Expensive as the accident had been, said General Itagaki, it would "not interfere in any way . . . with the sacred war in China." Neither did the mysterious fire in December which razed an aviation training station at Yonago (cost: 150,000 yen) ; or, later, the explosion and fire which wrecked an Army powder factory at Maebashi...
...with a traditional fair, suitably modified for a China at war. The most patronized concession: a "beat the Japanese" booth where patriotic Chinese could throw balls at caricatures of such Japanese worthies as Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, his predecessor, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Minister for War Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki and Minister for Foreign Affairs Hachiro Arita...
...Biggest Japanese businessmen, the Tokyo armament tycoons, met War Minister Seishiro Itagaki last week at the Military Club. There Lieut. General Eiki Tojo warned them that Britain, France and the Soviet Union will continue to give aid to Generalissimo Chiang, and that when Russia thinks Japan has become "exhausted"by the struggle, Tokyo may expect Moscow to roll an offensive down against Korea through Vladivostok. Snapped Lieut. General Tojo at the tycoons: "We are now faced with the necessity of preparing armaments adequate to defend Japan on two fronts at the same time...
...Japanese who might well have been flushed with double-barrelled victory, War Minister Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki, officially declared last week in Tokyo: "The conflict between Japan and China is little affected. . . . Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started. The unexpectedly early victory at Hankow should be attributed to the august virtues of His Imperial Majesty, and at the same time to the brave efforts of the Japanese forces which participated. After victory, tighten your helmet strap...
...sense that it despises capitalism as a creation of unheroic middle-class poltroons, the Japanese Army has for years been radical. Last week. War Minister Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki made a statement which gave Japanese capitalists the jitters. Ostensibly the War Minister spoke to warn Japan of Communist dangers and the need of greater efforts to down China, but General Itagaki sounded as though he had just been studying the history of how Russia has subordinated the forces of production to State control and developed heavy industry for military purposes...