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to take the post of Finance Min- ister by threatening to resign if Mr.Ikeda declined." Mr. Ikeda's terms were that he should have the Commerce Ministry too, and that the moderate General Ugaki should have the Foreign Office. Despite Mr. Ikeda's utmost efforts the closing months of last year brought Japan steadily nearer to official acceptance of currency in- flation. In November the Army insisted that, since the proposed staggering new war bond author- lisation had thrown Japanese business circles into alarm, the final mobilisation of industry must be proclaimed. That was done on January 1, Prince Konoye immediately abandoned office.

Since that time, signs of des- peration have been observable on

Hong Kong, Friday, February 3, 1932 all hands: the demand of the po-

DESPERATION IN

JAPAN

litical parties, summarily reject- ed for greater participation in the affairs of the nation; the outcries of the extreme Nationalists Despite the No Change in Po-against Britain and the United icy facade carefully built up in States; the challenge to Prince he Diet by Baron Hiranuma, it Konoye's position; steady prepara- s evident past that serious polition by the Army for completing a. totalitarian ical differences are likely soon to the structure of

The regime. The real clash has not ome to a head in Japan. Army has been the real power in yet revealed itself, but it seems Japanese Ministries during the more and more inevitable.

past three years; but the Army

leaders have had to make haste Catalan War

slowly in developing their ambi--

tions, partly because the Navy It is plain already that despite chiefs have never abandoned their the undeniable success

which

rivalry, and partly because Ja has attended the Franco offen-·

panese liberalism-though dead sive in Catalonia, no early ter-

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in Parliament-still finds cham-mination of the war is in pros- Republican resistance on pions in the powerful business pect. and banking interests. The cap- the Catalan front itself is rapid- tains of industry are of liberally stiffening. In the Madrid area, out-look because they must be; determination to continue the Japan depends for prosperity on struggle is manifest. It is a tra her export trade, and upon a sus-gic business. In this terrible war tained flow of imports for her fac-in Spain, now in its third year, as tories; and it is in this well-es-many men have died as fell for A mil- tablished and powerful interest Britain during 1914-18. that the Army policy finds its ine-lion slain have not sufficed to de- vitable and most formidable opcide who shall be masters of the position. For the Army policy peninsula, and General Franco, if his present campaign points rather signficantly to a re-even versionist tendency in Japanese should realise the best hopes of administration. The 250 years' himself and his Italo-German al- regime of the Shogunate has, lies, will still be far from his goal after all, been not so long abolish-A struggle so protracted and pi- ed; the revolution of 1868 occur-tiless would be horrifying enough red within the lifetime of Ja-if it were no more than the civil panese still living; and in ex-war which it purports to be, but treme national emergency, such the fighting has gained a spe- as is now developing, nothing is cial quality of coldbloodedness more natural than that Japanese through the intervention of for- militarists' minds should throw eigh forces, which have made the back to the courses upon which Spanish battlefields a testing- the ancestors of their clans re-ground for their armaments and led. No doubt what has most Spanish women and children a arrested Japanese attention in the practice target for their bombing modern Italian State is the figure pilots. It acquired, too, a men- of Signor Mussolini as the mo-acing character for France and dern counterpart of those Sho-Britain as the conviction grew guns of which their history is so that the Dictator nations were eloquent.

manoeuvring for position on the Even if the Japanese domestic Spanish peninsula, in order to es- emergency is not yet to be called tablish their strategical suprem- In extreme, beyond question the ar-acy in the Mediterranean. rival of a crisis is only a matter October, however, the Republican of time and probably a short, Government evacuated the last of time. Under the strain of the its foreign volunteers. Later Sig- Mussolini announced the undeclared war on China, the Janor panese National Mobilisation Law withdrawal of 10,000 Italian le- has been proclaimed piecemeal. gionaries, as a signal for the im- Parliament was muzzled, the plementation of the Anglo-Italian Press controlled, reserve classes agreement. It began to look like were called up for training, wages the end I of foreign intervention. and working hours were prescrib- Yet Franco's offensive finds the ed, imports were severely licen-Italians, in greater force than ed, foreign policy was brought ever, acting as the spearhead of under the Army chiefs' direction. his advance, operating under their generals, with reinforce- Only one, but a very important, own section of the law remained un-ments of tanks and aeroplanes, proclaimed. That was Article II, and cheered by plaudits. from providing for control under or- Rome.

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dinance of all operations of cor- The spirit if not the letter of orations, their dividends, and the Anglo-Italian pact could he employment of their funds, hardly have been more cynically in May last the late Premier, or contemptuously violated than Prince Konove, made a desperate by this fresh and violent inter-

·NDURISHING | ffort to effect a. Cabinet, Alance vention in Spain and the accom-

gainst the Arury over

tion of this powe Mr. Ikeda, of the Mitsul

ing agitation for the cession

nch territories in the Me-'