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The Empire
It has now been made clear to Ger- my that the whole strength of the British Empire is deployed against her in the war on freedom. All the members of the British Common- wealth of Nations are agreed, as they were in 1014, to glit out, till vic tory ix won, the battle against
Aggression.
The resourees of a afth
of
the
world, on Field-Murshal Goering's estimate, are now devoted Irrevocably to the overthrow of Nazism.
That should cause and searching of heart in German councils.
If reason still exercises any sway there, it must find even more de- pressing the fact that the resolve of the Nations of the Empire was made In perfect freedom, and only in South Africa was there enough dlf- |ference_ofopinion to require. a.vote...
The leaders of Germany believed, or at least they told their people, that the British Empire would break Into fragments under the menace of
war.
REORIENTATION
N
Who's Who in Japan's
EW men take over in Japan.
Out of office goes Baron Hiraniuma, extreme right-winger, wager of war on China, the man who planed everything on
Hitler's help.
"I am so filled with trepidation that I cannot. stay in office any longer," he said, when he heard that Hitler had signed a pact with Rusola.
Into his shoes steps General Nobuyaki Abe. (The Arbay," but no English- Japanese pronounce him
man could resist calling him Abc.)
Abe's Cabinet has now been formed. There is not one single man to be found in it who was in the out- going Cabinet.
This is no mere formal change of government. These new men mean new policies-a reorienta- tion of Japanese diplomacy. They are Japan's iden of a "National" Government,
They are men of all sorts-generals, admirals, Civil servants, judges, business men. There are even two regular, whole-time politicians.
All of them are supposed to be "liberal" and moderate. Who and what are they? Here is some- thing about each:-
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General Nobuyak! Abe, Prime Minister.
He wears rim. years old and has a wide, smiling face. less spectacios, and across his upper lip runs a short- clipped, half-inch-wide moustache.
Three years ago he retired from the Army and has since been living quietly in Tokyo.
Among Japanese soldiers he is remarkable for the fact that he has never been on active service. He has had the good fortune, or the good serise, to spend most of
time
at headquarters.
In this way he rose to be Supreme War Councillor. during the two last years of his military career.
During the last year or two he has begun to be forgotten by the Japanese public and he has never had any assured political following. All the same he has a good deal of popularity, most of which he inherits from General Ugak!, one-time Foreign Secretary. a man of grent standing, who took Abe under his wing..
Ugak! is reputed to be a mede- rate, so everybody takes it that Abe moderate, too, and they let him bask in Ugak's reacted
popularity.
Be
The Mikado has chosen Abe because he la supposed to stand above the fiercest factions, was never one of the men who put their trust is Hitler. Nor is he one of the men who think that after the events of the past week Japan should at once attempt to redress her balance with a British alliance.
Abe would like to be German and anti-Buitish at the same time. He is expected to carry on the war against China In com- plete isolation from the rest of the world.
General Abe
is supposed to. stand above the fiercest factions
politician, he is very much known as a soldier. Throughout 1938 he Commander-in- was Japanicze Chief in China,
The papers have boosted him as a popular here and his name Ja particularly Baked with the landing of troops, at Hangchow the driving of the Chinese and the antie.
from Shanghai.
How easy it will be, time will show him.
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General Shuaroku Hata, War Minister. His appointment has curprised, shocked the Army. The Army usually nominates the War Minister and it did not nominate Hata.
Hata has always been right out- side politics. It is not much good speculating whether lie is Left or Right. Nobody knows what he is.. Presumably Abe thinks him mode- rate.
But if Hata is unknown as
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As Commander-in-Chief he re- peatedly said he meant no harm to Britain and America and he ilked to nmaintain personal and corálal
relations with Generals and diplomats.
Eritishi
It was only after he was re- called to Japan last January and muda chief Alde-de-Camp to tho Mikado that the anti-British cam- paign broke out in full fury,
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Kazuo Aold, Minister of Finance. The brains of the new Govern- ment. Also the youngest member of the Govenament, being only 54.
Cabinet
tion as an economist and has been a lecturer at four Japanese univer- sities.
After the Great War he came to Europe for the Peace Conference and helped to squeeze Germany tili the pips squeaked by sitting on the So he Reparations Commission. takes his share in the responsi- blity for Versailles.
Although
Civil servant, he has
for many years controlled the Finance Ministry. Now he is boss in name as well as in fact.
He has always been very active in polities and he is regarded as
"advanced" views. Having very
He will try to make the army
his spend less money and
arm will be strengthened because he is Ro- ing to be President of the recently- formed Planning Board which co- ordinates all Government depart- ments.
Naeshi Ohara, Minister of Home Affairs and Welfare. He started life as a civil servant in the De- partment of Justice. He has risen
He has been a leading offelal into be a leading judge,-President of
the Ministry of Finance for years.
He has also bulit himself a reputa-
Cottage Pie
CHURCH Times' and the now defunct Morn-
the Tokyo Court of Appeal.
Twice before he has been in
lsh the Japanese Parliament on the Italian Fascist model
He is yet another Civil servant and has spent most of his life in the Home Ministry. His speciality is Labour problems, and he knows Europe through his periodic visits to the International Labour Office. As a side-line, he is managing director of a company.
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Vice Admiral Takulo Godoh, Minister of Commerce, Agriculture and Forestry. Is Japan's No. 1 business man. Ho is extremely well-known, very active and go- ahead. The sea is only his second
love.
He speaks fluent German, knows Germany's economic system well and has co-operated with the lords of German heavy industry in developing railways in Manchukuo. Abe hopes to use him as a poacher- turned-game keeper.
Most of his power and wealth comes from fron, steel, armaments and railways. He is President of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and is now 02 years old.
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Ryutaro Nagal, Minister Communications and Railways. A real politician. He is very popular In the country.
He is one of the brightest lights
in the Minscito the Japanese
Liberal Party," country's
one
of the two historic political
parties,
He han often been a Cabinet
and Was Minister before
the favourite of Count Okuma, one of the great pioneers of the Japanese Liberal Party. His nickname is "Okuma No. 2.
Tsuneo Kanemitsu, Minister of Overseas Affairs, is a member of the other kistoric party-the Conservatives. Ha Belynkat, or ought to be able to guarantee Cón- new servative support for the Government.
Kanemitsu has a finger in many plea. He has been a civil servant and he is director of about a dozen companies mostly insurance com- panies. Not long ago he was deputy-speaker of the House of Representatives.
Yoshida,
Vice-Admiral Zengo veteran of the Great War, Com- mander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, brings all hla naval prestige to the post of Navy Ministër.
Ryusaku Endo, ex-civil servant, member of the House of Peers, with long experience of adminis- tering Japan's colonies on the Chinese mainland, including Man- churla, becomes Chief Secretary to the Cabinet.
Will Shebbeare
Cabinets, but each time as Minis Mexico Offers Oil
ter of Justice. A non-specialist ministry la a new line of country for him.
Ohara is nearly as common a name in Japan as it is in Ireland.
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Jus-
Their predecessors made the same prophecy in 1014. But Germans have since been instructed that the evolu-
|tion of the Empire into self-govern- Ing States has destroyed any chance
ked to read both sides." That is n of united action, the virus of demo-lightful book about his experi- touch worthy of Charles Lamb.
Mr. Gathorne-Hardy's rock-garden, ence 28 the possessor of a cracy has corrupted its strength,
Now the
German people must fifteenth-century cottage in East it will be seen, was the centre of a
Anglia. A poet with a humorist very human world. awake to discover that freedom has at his clbow, Mr, Church gives us
辽
thon fortified the unity of the Common-adicate and entertaining sketches of wealth. They have proof enforced himself and his "companion" smid MORE topical, unhappily,
the chimney. either of these books is Mr. their troubles--with
Itope's "Torquemada: upon them that powerful, prosperous the roof, the well and other things Thomas States in complete liberty to choose and their more than compensating Scourge of the Jews." So distant did Torquemada seem from modern lite their own course are determined to joy
Here is a book in which life is a few years ago that his name was join more closely together that they made to seein gloriously worth liv adopted by a famous setter of cross- word puzzles. Here we see him re- may nehieve, in Gen. Smuts's words, ing. There is no sugary "the destruction of Hitlerism and altinentality about birds and flowers. presented as the originator of that exas- racial nationalism which is for the (At one point Mr. Church, that Implics."
wrought by momeni triumphant in Germany.
according perated by the havoc
Torquemada, The choice pronounces the judg- birds, recnits that, "after all, birds
belong to the. reptile family.") But Hope, created the first modern na ment of civilised mankind on Herr this smiling realism makes the book lonalist Slate. in Spain by means of the Inquisition, "But," he adds, "That all the fruer to Life with its mixture very unity, the narrowness of that of sun and shadow.
frit nationalisin, Imposed and main- How the nations of the Empire can
There are also some excellent talaed by the Inquisition in must usefully bring their power to thumb-nal!
sketclics of village alliance with the Crown, was to lead bear is not a question to be answered worthles-the litcher, the dowser, to the decadence of Spain, and even hastily..
MICHARD CHry de Ing Pust, because, she told me, she Chogoro Miyagi, Minister of Juta
Hkler's rule.
inv
the "rustic sain!"-alt
senti-
to Mr.
close
portrayed to the horrors that Spain suffers to- with an economy of line like Phil day, just us inevitably as it had brought about the Golden Age. Tor- They are all much stronger than May's.. they were in 1914, stronger by mill- In the end, Mr. Church was driven quemada was both saviour and de-
This is a fair-minded book on al tory experience and by development out of his demi-Paradise by the troyer of Spain."
lation.
building of the huge aerodrome in
of their natural resources and popu-the neighbourhood. But he has given cruel incident in history, which should;
it permanence in a book of memories be widely read to-day. that entitles him, to as high a place It will be news to many readers, among Kving essayists as he has al- by the way, that Torquemada, the endy won among Ilving poets and persecutor of the Jews, was himself novelists.
the grandson of a Jewess.
The military strength of India hus greatly increased from the lessons learnt in the last - war, from the modernisation of her army and from the results of Lord Chatfeld's re- port.
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But it is not only by the dispatch of expeditionary forces that the Dominions can serve the common cause. To maintain industries, which will give a constant flow of muni tlons and an agricultural efficiency which will assure food supplies for the fighting front and the home base is of the first importance.
That twofold task we are now well assured will be accomplished,
40THREE Acres and a MII" is on- THERE is topical interest even in other exceptionally enjoyable "Flaubert and Madame Bovary," book about the country.. The author, for it takes us into the world of the century ago whose Mr. Gathorne-Hardy, is more of an romanties of expert gardener than Mr. Church, theories about life were skin in their: He can talk with authority on Cistus poisonousness to some of the most monspeilensis, Clatus albidus, and destructive theories of our own time. Luckily for There was the same hatred of the Cistus salviaefolius, ignoramuses like myself, however, he bourgeoisiewually a sign that wis is also an admirable describer of dom is on the downgrade.
a Mr. Bleegmuller has writion a Anc travel in Spain and elsewhere, humorist, and a painter of character. biographical study of Flaubert, that extraordinary and herolo artist with I liked particularly hii sketch of the romanile imagination, who is re- Mr. Jones, the old Tory lady, of membered chiefly as the writer of a whom he writes: have only once realistic novel and who was himself encountered Tory opinions more ex- in large part the Madame Bovary. he treme in a lady who took in the so cruelly portrayed.
sketches.
a lawyer's job.
He has spent all his life in the Ministry of Justice, first as an official, recently as a judge of the He has a cold, Appeal Court. logical, legal brain, after the same pattern sa Sir John Simon's.
Kakichi Kawarada. Minister of Education. Rather a mysterious ngure. As Minister of Home Affairs in 1037 he tried to experiment with the election system and to estab-
To The Allies
MEXICO CITY. High Government officials 10- dicated recently that the Allies would experience no dimculty 1 they wished to obtain supplies petroleum from Mexico,
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President Cardenas, It was stated, Intends to sell oil and other pro- ducts to European belligerents who "deserve Mexico's sympathy," and those belligerents, it was made clear, were Britain, France and Poland.
Mr. W. R. Davis, the American who arranged the £5,000,000 oll barter deal between Mexico and Germany, has left Mexico, and it is reported that the agreement has been
cancelled.
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