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The Empire

It has now been made clear to Ger- many that the whole strength of the Brith Empire is deployed against her in the war day freedom. All the members of the British Common- wealth of Nations are agreed, as they 1914, to fight out, il vic- were in

the battle Won

against tory

apgression.

The resources of

Afth-

uf the

world. on Field-Marshal Goering's estimate, are now devoted irrevocably to the overthrow of Nazism.

That should cause sad searching of heart in German councils.

REORIENTATION

Who's Who in Japan's

"EW men take over in Japan,

N

Out of office goes Baron HiranUMA, extreme right-winger, wager of war Dil China, the man who pluned everything on Hitler's help.

"I am so filled with trepidation that I cannot stay in omce any longer," he said, when he heard that Hitler had signed a pact with Russia.

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 policles-a reorienta- tion of Japanese diplomacy. They are Japan's idea 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.

"liberal", and All of them are supposed to be moderate. Who and what are they? Here is some- thing about each:-

He is 64

General Nobuyuki Abe, Prime Minister. years old and has a wide, smiling face. He wears rim- less spectacles, 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.

Antong 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 sense, to spend most of his time at headquarters.

In this way he rose to be Supreme War Councillor during "the two last ears of his military career.

During

the

last year forgotten by the Japanese publie and he has never had any assured politica! following. All the same he has a good deal of popularity, most of which he inherits from General Ugaki, one-time Foreign Secretary, a man of areat-standing, who took Abe under his wing.

year or two he has begun to be

Ugaki is reputed to be a mode- rate, so everybody takes it that Abe is moderate, too, and they let him bask 11t Ugakl's reffreted popularity.

The Mikado has chosen Abe because he ta supposed to stani- above

lle the fiercest factions. was never one of the men who put their trust in 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. anti- to be Abe would ke

the German and anti-British at same time. He is expected to carry on the war against China in com- pete holation from the rest of the world.

How cany it will be, time wifi show him.

✰

General Shunroku liala. War. Minister. Hls appointment has

eprised, shocked the Army. The Army usually nominates the War Minister and it did not nominate Hata.

I 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 Africs was there enough dif-speculating whether he is Left or ference of opinion to require a vote.

or

The lenders of Germany believed,

af least they taid 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 tion of the Empire into self-govern-

Hata has always been right out- alde politics. It is not much good

Right. Nobody knows what he is. Presumably Abe thinks him mode- rate.

But if Hata is unknown as a

General Abe

is supposed to

stand above the fiercest factions

[

politician, he is very much known as a soldier. Throughout 1938 he WAS Japanese Commander-in- Chief in China.

The papers have boosted in as a popular hero and ils name is particularly linked with the landing of troops at Hangchow and the driving of the Chinesc from Shanghal.

As Commander-in-Chief he re- neatedly said he meant no harm to Britain and America and he liked to maintain personal and

relations cordiul

British with Generals and diplomats.

It was only after he was re- called to Japan last January and made chief Alde-de-Camp to the Mikado that the anti-British cam- paign broke out in full fury,

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Kazno Aoki, Ministr of Finance. The brains of the new Govern- ment. Also the youngest member of the Government, being only 54 He has been a leading official in the Ministry of Finance for years. He has also bulit himself a reputa-

Cottage Pie

RICHARD

CHURCH Times and the now defunct 'Murn-

inx States he destroyed any chance Mhas CHAR very de. in Post, because, she told me, she

cracy bus corrupted Its strength.

Now

ente

M

tauch worthy of Charles Lamb. of united action, the virus of demo-lightful book about his experi. liked bread both alder." That is a Mr. Gathorne-Hardy's rock-garden, the possessor of a 214 the German people must fifteenth-century cottage in East it will be seen, was the centre of awake to discover that freedom has at his elbow, Mr. Church gives us

Anglia. A poet with a humorist very human world. fortified the unity of the Common-delicate and entertaining sketches of

MORE topical, unhappily, than himself and his "companion", amid M° wealth. They have proof enforced

chinney, their troubles--with the

cither of these books is Mr. Torquemada: Hope's upon them that powerful, prosperous the roof, the well and other things Thermos Stales In complete liberty to choose and their more than compensating Scourge of the Jews." So distant did Torquemadu seem from modern life few years ago that his name was

Their own course are determined to

jain more closely together that they may achieve, la Gen. Smuts's words, "the destruction of Hitlerism and a that it implies."

Joys,

*

Here is book in which life is a made to seem gloriously worth five adopted by a famous setter of cross- sent word puzzles. Here we see him re- Ing. There is no sugary mentality about birds and flowers, presented as the originator of that (At one point Mr. Church, exas- racial nationalism which is for the to Mr. perated by the havoc wrought by moment triumphant in Germany.

Torquemada, according The choice pronounces the judg-birds, reculls that, "after all, birds Hope, created the first modern aa- belong to the reptile family." But this smiling realism makes the booklonalist State in Spain by means of all the truer to life with its mixture the Inquisition, "Dut," he adds, "that narrowness of that very unity, the of sun and shadow.

Arst nationalism, imposed and main- Thire

also come excellent tained by he Inquisition in close village alliance with the Crown, was to lend

Iinent of civilised mankind on Herr

Ilitler's rule.

Are

sketches of

How the nations of the Empire can most usefully bring their power to thumb-nail bear is not a question to be answered worthies the thaleher, the dowser, to the decadence of Spain, and even the "rustic saint-all portrayed to the horrors that Spain suffers tu- instily.

Inevitably FIR It bad with an economy of line like Phit day, just as

brought about the Golden Age, Tar-

They are all much stronger than May's. they were in 1014, stronger by mili In the end, Mr. Church was driven quemada was both saviour and de-

out of his demi-Paradise by the troyer of Spain." tary experience and by development building of the huge aerodrome in This is a fair-minded book on a the neighbourhood. But he has given eruel incident in history, which should it permanence in a book of memories be widely rend 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 greatly Increased from the lessons renty won among living poets and persecutor of the Jews, was himself

the grandson of a Jewess.

nf their natural resources and papu- lation.

learnt in the Inst war, from the modernisation of her army and from

the results of Lord Chaißeld's re- port.

L

novelists.

THREE Acres and a Mill" is an- THERE is toplest interest even in other exceptionally enjoyable Flaubert and Madame Bovary," book about the country. The author, for I 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 talk with authority on Clatus poisonousness to some of the most Dominion can serve the common monspellentis, Cistus albidus, and destructive theories of our own lime. Luckily for There was the same hatred of the cause. To maintain industries which Cistus salviaefolius. will give a constant flow of muni- gnoramuses like myself, however, he bourgealale-usually a sign that wis-

is also an admirable describer of dom is on the downgrado.

Mr. Sleegmuller has welten a fine tions and an agricultural celency travel in Spain and elsewhere, a which will assure food supplies for humorist, and a painter of character- blographical study of Flaubert, that

sketches.

extraordinary and herole artist with the fighting front and the home base

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

Mrs. Janez, the old Tory lady, of membered chiefly as the writer of a That twofold task we are now well whom he writes: "I have only once realistic novel and who was huself Tencountered Tory opinions more ex- in large part the Madame Bovary he assured will be accompilatied, treme in a lady who took in the so cruelly portrayed,

Cabinet

tion as an economist and has been a lecturer at four Japanese univer.

ities.

After the Great War he came to Europe for the Peace Conference and helped to squeeze Germany tili pips squeaked by sitting on the So he Reparations Commission. takes his share in the responsi- bility for Versailles.

Although a 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 politics and he is regarded as having very advanced views.

He will try to make the army spend les

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 ail Government depart- ments.

Naoshil Ohara, Minister of Home Affairs and Welfare He started life as a civil servant in the De- 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 Mints- ter of Justice. A non-specialist ministry is a new line of country for him.

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

1sh the Japanese Parliament on the Itailan Faselst model.

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

Takuo

Godah.

*

Vice Admiral Minister of Commerce, Agriculture and Forestry, Is Japan's No. business man. He is extremely well-known, very active and go ahead. The sea is only his second

love.

He speaks nuent 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 raliways. He is President of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and is now 02 years old.

Nagal, Minister Ryutaro Communications and Rallways. A real politielan. He is very popular in the country.

He is one of the brightest lights

of

the Mingeito the Japanese one of the Liberal Party," country's two historie political

parties.

He has often been a Cabinet Minister before

and was the Javourite of Count Okuma, one of the great ploncera of the Japanese Liberal Party. His nickname is "Okuma No. 2."

*

Tsuneo Kaneniltsu, Minister of Overseas Affairs, is a member of the other historic party--the

Ho Conservatives. or Seiyukal. ought to be able to guarantee-Con- servative support for the Government.

new

Kanemitsu has a finger in many pics.

He has been a civil servant and he is director of about a dozen companica-mostly Insurance com- was Not long ago he pantes. deputy-speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vico-Admirat Zengo Yoshida, veteran of the Great War, Com- mander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, brings all his naval prestige to the past of Navy Minister.

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

Will Shebbeare

Mexico Offers Oil To The Allies

MEXICO CITY. Righ Government officials In- tiented recently that the Allies

wished to obtain supplies would experience no dimculty if of petroleum from Mexico.

President Cardenas, it was stated, intends to soll oil and other pro- ducts to European belligerents who

Chogoro Miyagi, Minister of Justhey tice. Another lawyer, and he gets a lawyer's Jub.

He has spent all his fe in the Ministry of Justice, Brat ns an oficial, recently as a judge of the Appeal Court. He has a cold. logical, legal brain, after the same pattern as Sir John Simon's.

Kaklehi Kawaruda, Minister of Rather mysterious Education. figure. Au Minister of Home Affairs in 1937 he tried to experiment with the election system and to estab-

deserve Mexico's sympathy," " and those helligerents, it was made clear, were Britain, France and Poland.

Mr. V. R. Davis, the American oli £6,000,000 who arranged the barter deal between Mexico and Germany, has left Mexico, and it is reported that the agreement has been

cancelled.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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