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...citizens. This week Chinese reported having bombed and sunk four vessels of the Japanese fleet just above Anking. War-weary and discouraged, the Japanese admitted: 1) they might have to defer their drive on Hankow until autumn; 2) they might even discuss terms. Said Foreign Minister General Kazushige Ugaki: "If any serious changes should occur in the future, it may be necessary for the Japanese Government to reconsider its decision not to deal with the Chiang Kai-shek regime." Chinese Communists in Hankow exultantly issued a communique: "Who imagines that we Chinese troops are unable to rout the Japanese Fascist...
...replace the restraining influence of Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, the Premier brought burly, oval-faced General Kazushige Ugaki from retirement. A onetime vegetable peddler, General Ugaki is a liberal leader of the Minseito party, has been Minister of War five times...
...Fuminaro Konoye journeyed to the Empire's national shrines and prayed last week for "restoration of Peace." In a loquacious interview with Japanese correspondents he envisioned peace under a sort of United States of Asia, a lineup of Japan, China and Manchukuo v. the West. Meanwhile General Kazushige Ugaki, one of Japan's longtime Privy Councilors, mentioned prominently last spring as candidate for Premier, attempted to meet squarely the incredulity with which white men greet Japanese claims to be fighting China so that the two countries can become firm friends, even allies. In 1866 Prussia defeated Austria...
Efforts to form a new Cabinet by more or less mild General Kazushige Ugaki, retired, were abandoned after bodyguards of the Premier-Designate had been obliged to fight off last week an especially resolute group of would-be assassins, assumed by the panicky populace to be "regular Army assassins." Only hasty decision at midnight by the Emperor's advisers to have the Son-of-Heaven ask a onetime War Minister and stanch Army man, General Senjuro Hayashi, to take over the job of Cabinetmaking somewhat slackened tension, by no means ended the crisis...
...however, it is almost impossible for a Cabinet to exist if either or both Army and Navy Ministers do not pull with the Cabinet, and the Hirota Cabinet resigned. This week Emperor Hirohito, after conferring with Prince Saionji, last of the Emperor's hereditary advisers, called upon Kazushige Ugaki, retired Army General and onetime Governor-General of Korea, to form a new Cabinet. Preceding this grim political struggle in Tokyo was a sudden and at first mysterious halting of exchange transactions which tied up millions of yen in Tokyo and slowed up business with Japan all over the world...