The first months of Baron Hiranuma's premiership demonstrate ed his conservative nature. They also brought other developments showing, a waning in the enthusiasm which Jonce had been wrapped around the so-called Berlin-Rome-Tokyo ax 'The military clique which had ad-Yorated closer connections with the European totalitarian groups found self involved ina discouraging situation' in China. Its loaders could See no way of closing out the China war with any glory to themselves oF of capitalizing on their military. vie-tories.
The Army lost so much prestige over the failure of its China intrigues, notably in the Wang Ching-wel and Wu Pei-tu fasces, that in March its leaders asked Prince Konoye to go to China to see if he could find some Way of pulling them out of their dif-wind up the China war and this has placed it in a position where its st gestions are apt to be turned down because of its record of success in bungling neatly every effort outside of the purely military. This has resulted in a feeling that, since the exploratory flirting with Fascism has brought such meagre results, a tumnabout toward conservative" govern= ment is advisable, General Sadao Araki is another out standing Japanese figure who was sup-pored to have Fascist leanings. He was Minister of Education in the Konoye Cabinet and carried over in the same capacity in the Hiranuma Cabinet, But like, Baron Hiranuma, Gen, Araki is not developing in the Fascist mould, Instead, he is known among those who know him as a kind-hearted, genial old man who wants nothing more than to be known as the best Education Minister Japan ever had.
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