The Archive · 1935

Pact With Soviet Ineffective

Tokyo, June 23.

Conclusion of a pact of nonaggression between the USSR. and Japan will not necessarily reduce the demands of the army for huge] appropriations.

"This will be the tenor of the statement to be made by Gen. Senjuro Hayashi. Minister of War, before the 'National Polley Council' when this} advisory body meets on Friday for the third time, a spokesman for the War Office indicated to-day.

Forecasting the vein in which Gen-feral Hayashi will speak on Friday, the spokesman to-day said that the War' Office did not believe that ]Japan had yet emerged from the state fof emergency she was plunged into soon after the Mukden' Incident of

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