In the course of his New Year message, Prince Konoye said that Japan's main aim in the current hostilities was to bring China, "who gone astray, to her beaten ways."
Japan, he states, "desires to build a solid foundation for the progress and stability of the Far East and to make the product a pillar of the universal peace structure."
Following the fall of Nanking, the Premier asserts, the Chinese National ment has become "a weapon ie hands of the Communist Party, organization."
"If Japan is asked what she wants most," Prince Konoye added, "there can only be one answer—she wants peace in the Orient. To build a solid foundation under this peace, Japan must fight her present battle,"—
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