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When Tokyo last week told of the resignation of Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo (not to be confused with Premier Hideki Tojo), many dopesters thought that Japan's long-feared attack on Siberia would shortly begin. In 1938 and 1939 Shigenori Togo was Ambassador to Russia, where he was said to have helped plan the Russo-Japanese Non-Aggression Pact. Rumor said that Jap etiquette required that he resign before Japan broke its pact...
Said Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo: "The United States ... is trying forcibly to apply to East Asiatic countries fantastic principles and rules not adapted to the actual situation...
While Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu got ready in Washington to argue the U.S. into letting Japan have her way in the Pacific (see p. 19), Premier General Hideki Tojo and Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo told the world that Japan meant to have her way anyhow...
...gave military and political power to General Eiki Tojo, has set the stage for further aggression whenever Nippon feels the time is ripe. The island is now completely dominated by the military extremists, advocates of total war mobilization in the Pacific and close cooperation with the Nazis. Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo even has a German wife. However, the new cabinet has not committed itself to a definite program but will probably watch developments in Eastern Russia very carefully. The last vestige of any friends-with-the-U.S. sentiment has disappeared with Konoye, the brake is off, and the road...
...cabinet reportedly inc uder Shigenori Togo, former Ambassador to Russia and Germany, as Foreign Minister and Admiral Shigetao Shimada as Navy Minister, Shimada is commander of the Yokosnuk naval station...