The Archive · 1936

Navy Memorandum

Tokyo, Mar, 11.

dye-point memorandum, designed to ald the now Premi Hirota, in formulating wag submitted to the Cabinet today Admiral 0. Nagano, tv Navy Minister, This provides for:—Purification of the national administra~ ion:

irengthening of ational defence:

Exahitment "ofa" new Gnanca tfenoWation, and unifeation" of for-Ten pollles: and, Botablishment of a "positive" general national policy.

In explanatory notes accompanying the memorandum, Admiral Nagano points out that Is frst point did not cal! for a repudiation of the parllamentary system, but merely sought puriflation of party peltless, to bring Into being a "Feat constitutional ad-

Japan's national defence, ho further explains, should be replenished, to cope with the demands of (ie hon: treaty "conditions of 1057.

"The unavoidable Increases in ex penditure for national defence," the memorandum. says, "necessitate the formulation of a new dnancial polley, to help in striking a balance between the defence requirements and re-

Strengthening of foreign diplomacy through' the unification of diplomatic organs a: home and abroad would] eliminate past deficiencies in the con-duet of foreign policies, Admiral Nagano stresses.—Domel.

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