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During the week German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott and Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli both called on Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Mr. Matsuoka conferred with his chiefs of Military and Naval Affairs, while Emperor Hirohito received War Minister Eiki Tojo. A Government spokesman denied, as he must, a report that Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was seeking a neutrality pact in Washington...
...directed them to submit the names of candidates for their ministries. When they did, he summoned three men. The first, onetime president of the monopolistic South Manchuria Railway Yosuke Matsuoka, promptly accepted the ticklish post of Foreign Minister. The second, Director General of Military Aviation Lieut. Gen eral Eiki Tojo, took the War Ministry; and the third, Yonai's Navy Minister Vice Admiral Zengo Yoshida, agreed to stay in office...
Finally, Premier Konoye proceeded in leisurely fashion to round out his Cabinet. Instead of talking to candidates face to face, he called them up by telephone. He made it clear that the Big Four - Konoye, Matsuoka, Tojo, Yoshida - would run the show. For the other Cabinet posts he did not pick big names or big careers, but five efficient, willing bureaucrats, two businessmen, and one journalist turned free-lance politician...
...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...
...When does General Tojo expect war with Russia...