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The Empire·

It has now been made clear to Ger- many 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 1914, to fight out, il vic- tury 14 won, the battle against aggression.

The resources of arth work!, on Field-Marshal

of

the Gocrit:g's

estinute, are now devoted irrevocably to the overthrow of Nazism.

That should cause sad searching of heart in German councils.

:

If reuson still exercises uny sway there, it must find even more dc- pressing the fact that the resolve of the Nations of the Empire was made In perfect freedom, und only In South Africa was there ́enough dif- ference of opinion to require a voto. 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.

Their predecessors made the same prophecy in 1914. But Germans have since been instructed that the evolu-

REORIENTATION

N

Who's Who in Japan's Cabinet

EW men take over in Japan.

Out of omnice goes

Baron Hiranumu. extreme right-winger, wager of war on China, the man who pinned 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 Russin,

Into his shoes steps General Nobuyaki Abe. (The Japanese pronounce him "Arbay," but no English- man could resist calling him Abe.)

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 cach:--

General Nobuyuk Abe, Prime Minister, He is 04 years old and has a wide, smiling face. He wears-rim- less spectacles, and across his upper Up 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 la remarkable for the fact that he has never been on active service. He has had the good fortune, or the good sense, to spend most of his tlose at headquarters.

In this way he rose to be Supreme War Councillor during the two inst 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 Rood deal of popularity, most of which he inherits from General Uraki, one-time Foreign Secretary. a man of great standing, who took Abe under his wing.

Ugaki is reputed to be a mode- rate, so everybody takes it that Abe la moderate, too, and they let him back in Uraki's reflected popularity.

Abc

не

but

The Mikado has chosen because he is supposed to stand abuve the forest factions. was never one of the men who

is be one Nor their trust in Hitler. of the men who think that after the events of the pa

past week Japan should at once attempt to redress her balance will a British alliance.

Abe would like to be anti- German and anti-British at the same time. He is expected to carry on the war against China in com- picte isolation from the rest of the world.

How casy 1 will be. time wi show him.

★

War General Shunroku Hata. Minister. His appola'ment has urprised, shocked the Army. The Army usually nominates the War Minister and it did not nominate Hala.

Hata has always been right out- side politics. It is not much good. speculating whether he is Left or Right. Nobody knows what he is. Presumably Abe thinks him mode- rate.

But if Hata is unknown as u

General Abe

is supposed to stand above the fiercest factions

politician, he is very much known as a gokiler. Throughout 1938 he

Commander-in-alties. Was Japanese Chlef in China.

The papers have boosted him as a popular hero and his name is particularly linked with the landing of troops at Hangeliow and the driving of the Chinese from Bhanghai.

As Commander-in-Chief he re- peatedly said he meant no harm to Britain and America and he liked to maintain personal and British withi cordial relations Generals and diplomats.

WELS IC-

It was only after he called to Japan inst January and made chief Aldo-de-Camp to the Mikado that the anti-British cam- paign broke out in full fary.

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tion as an economist and has been a lecturer at four Japanese univer- After the Great War he came to Europe for the Peace Conference and helped to squeeze Germany ti the pips squeaked by sitting on the Reparations Commissica. So he takes his share in the responsl- bility for Versailles.

Civil servant, he has Although a for many years controlled the Finance Ministry. Now he is hoss 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 spend less money and his arm will be strengthened because he is go- ing to be President of the recently- formed Planning Board which co- ordinates all Government depart- ments.

Naoslil Ohara, Minister of Home He started Affairs and Welfare.

Kazuo Aoki, Minister of Finance. The brains of the new Govern- ment. Also the youngest member-life as a civil servant-in-the De

of the Government, being only 4. He has been a leading official In the Ministry of Finance for year. He has also built himself a reputa-

Cottage Pie

tion of the Empire into self-govern- TR. RICHARD CHURCH Times' and the now defunct 'Mern- ing States has destroyed any chance has written a very de- ing Pest, because, she told me is

liked to read both sides."

MR.

?

partment of Justice. He has risen

to be a leading judge, President of the Tokyo Court of Appeal.

Twice before he has been in Cabinets, but each time as Minis- ter of Justico. A non-specialist ministry is a now line of country for him.

Ohara is nearly as common a name in Japan as it is in Ireland.

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*

lish the Japanese Parliament on the Italian Fascist mudel.

He is yet another Civil servant and has spent most of his ille in the Home Ministry. His speciality in Labour problems, and he knows. Europe through his periodio visits. to the International Labour Omee. As a side-line, he is managing director of a company.

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Vice Admiral

Takuo

Godoh, Minister of Commerce, Agriculture and Forestry, is Japan's No. 1 Ho is extremely businesa hian, well-known, very netive and go- ahead. The sea is only his second

{DVC.

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. Abo hopes to use him as a poacher- turned-game keeper.

Most of his power and wealth comes from iron, stael, armaments and railways. Io la President of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and is now 02 years old.

of

Ryutaro Nagal, Minister Communications and Railways. A. real politician. Ho is very popular in the country.

He is one of the brightest lights.

in the Minselto the Japanese

one Liberal Party."

of the country's

two historie political parties.

He has often been Cabinet Minister before and was the favourite of Count Okuma, one of the great pioneers of the Japanese Liberal Party. Ha nickname 15 "Okuma No. 2."

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Trunco Kanemitsu, Minister of Overseas Affairs, is a member of the

historic party-the other

or Conservatives. Ho Selyukal, ought to

to be able to'guarantee Con- servative support for

new 'Government.

the

Kanemitsu has a finger in many pics. He has been a civil servant and he is director of about a dozen companie-mostly insurance com- panies. Not long ago be deputy-speaker of the House of Representatives.

was

Yoshida,

Vicc-Admiral Zengo veteran of the Great War, Com- mander-in-Chief of the Combined Ficot, brings all his naval prestige to the post of Navy Minister.

Ryusaku Endo, ex-civil servant. member of the House of Peers. with long experience of adminis- tho tering Japan's colonies on Chinese mainland, including Man- churia, becomes Chief Secretary to the Cabinet.

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ence

That a

,

of united action, the virus of demo- lightful book about his experi- touch worthy of Charles Lamb.

Mr. Gnthorne-Hardy's rock-garden, cracy has corrupled its strength.

BS the possessor of a fifteenth-century cottage in East it will be seen, was the centre of a people must

Anglia. A poet with a humorist very human world, wake to discover that freedom has at his elbow, Mr. Church gives us fortified the unity of the Common-delicate and entertaining sketches of wealth. They have proof enforced himself and his "companion" amid MORE topical, unhappily, than their troubles-with the chimney, either of these books is Mr.

Hope's

Torquemada: upon them that powerful, prosperous the roof, the well and other things Themas States in complete liberty to choose and their more than compensating Scourge of the Jews." So distant did Torquemada seem frem modern life joyz. their own course are determined to

Here is a book in which life is a few years ago that his name was made to seem gloriously worth Hy- adopted by a famous setter of cross- word puzzles. Here we see him re- no sukary sunt!- Ing. There is

raclal nationalism which is for the mentality about birds und flowers, presented as the originator of that (At one point Mr.

to Mr. according Torquemada, perated by the havoc wrought by moment triumphant in Germany. birds, recalls that, after all, birds Tope, created the first modern na- The choice pronounces the judg" belong to the reptile family.") But Honalist State in Spain by means of ment of civilised mankind on Herr this smiling realism makes the book the inquisition, "Bul," he adds, "that IIllier's rule.

all the trier to life with its mixture very unity, the narrowness of that How the nations of the Empire can

of sun and shadow,

Arst nationalism, imposed and main- There are also some excellent tained by the Inquisition in close most usefully bring their power to thumb-nail sketches Di village alliance with the Crown, was to lead bear is not a question to be answered worthies the thatcher, the dowser, to the decadence of Spain, and even the "rustic saint-all portrayed to the horrors that Spain suffers to- basilly.

inevitably as it had with an economy of line like Phil day, just as They are all much stronger, than May's.

brought about the Golden Age, Tor- In the end, Mr. Church was driven quemada was both savlour and de- they were in 1914, stronger by milli- of his demi-Paradise by the troyer of Spain. tary experience and by development building of the huge aerodrome in

that implies."

Intion.

Church,

exas-

This in a fair-minded book on a

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.

It will be news to many readers, that entitles him, to as high a place The military strength of India has among living essayists as he has al- by the way, that Torquemada, the grently increased from the lessons

endy won among living poets and persecutor of the Jews, was himself

the grandson of a Jewess. novelists. learnt in the last war, from the modernisation of her army and from the results of Lord Chatfield's re-

port.

Couse.

THREE Acres and a Mill" is an- 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 But it is not only by the dispatch Mr. Gathorne-Hardy, is more of an romantics of a century ago whose of expeditionary forces that the expert gardener than Mr. Church. theories about life were akin in their He can talks with authority on Cistus polsonousness to some of the most Dominions can serve the common monepellensis, Cistus albidus, and destructive theories of our own time. To maintain industries which Clatus siviaefolius. Luckily for There was the some hatred of the will give a constant flow of muntIgnoramuses like myself, however, he bourgeoisis usually a sign that wls-

is also an admirable describer of dom is on the downgrade. flons and an agricultural efficiency travel in Spain and elsewhere, a Mr. Steegmuller has written a 'fine which will suure food supplies for humorist, and a painter of character- blographical study of Flaubert, that extraordinary and herole artist with the fighting front and the home base

I liked particularly his sketch of the romantic imagination, who is re- is of the first importance, |--

Mrs. Jones, the old Tory lady, of mombered chiefly as the writer of a

sketches.....-.

ап

pro-

MEXICO CITY. Government oficiala In- dleated recently. that the Allies they wished to obtain supplies of Chagoro Miyagi, Minister of Jus-would experience no diflculty if tice. Another lawyer, and he gets a lawyer's job.

President Cardenas, it was stated, He has spent all his life in the.

intends to sell oil and other Ministry of Justice, first as

ducts to European belligerents who official, recently as a judge of the

deserve Mexico's sympathy," and cold. Appeal Court. He has

Lose belligerents, it was made clear, logical, legal brain, after the same

were Britain, France and Poland.

Mr. W. R. Davis, the American £5,000,000 oll who arrunged the pattern as Sir John Simon's.

barter deal between Mexico and Germany, hos left Mexico, and it is reported that the agreement has been

Kakichi Kawarada, Minister of Rather a mysterious Education. Agure. As Minister of Home Affairs in 1937 he tried to experiment with the election system and to estab-

cancelled.

GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

Vyhari

That twofold task we are now, well whom he writes: "I have only once realistic novel and who was himself "Young Buskin there' is just out of collage and strandy he's one of our

encountered Tory opinions more ex- in largo part the Madame Bovary he

most valuable man-he can get us tickats right on the 50-yard linu!” assured will be accomplished.

treme in a lady who took in the so cruelly portrayed,