Japanese War Minister Wants Them to Resign Tokyo, Aug. 2 "Inasmuch as reform is a nation~ wide demand at this hour, such Cabinet Ministers as are unable to carry out reform should unbestiteingly resign"—this sums up the altitude of General Count Hisalchi Terauchi, the Japanese Minister of War, Politics are not in my line," he declared, "but I say weak-kneed Ministers have no right to remain office. National "reform, of course, requires a lot of money, but you do not necessarily have to resort to an increase in order to raise funds. Increasing the taxes '¥.200,000,000 or "¥.300,000,000 would hardly suffice to finance our reform programme. 'The thing to do is to issue enough bonds to meet the situation, One need not stand aghast it fat the mention' of the Army's '¥.8,000,000,000 defence estimates. I would even go a step further and ask for ¥.5,000,000,000.
"you must remember that money does not go these days. nearly. a far a it did thirty years ago. Where the defence account was cal culated In the early days in terms of tens of millions, it is now necessary to figure in forms of hundreds of millions. 'The nation will have fo make allowances in that connection and expect a swollen bud-Ret which is needed for the growth of national_ power.'
"If the Diet opposes the reform programme, I would dissolve it, not once but as many times as" are necessary. I do not greatly care what procedure we have to through as long as we can carry out reform."—Reuter.
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