The Archive · 1939

Sometimes Fail"

Tokyo, Mar. 14.

The military and naval supplement tary estimates for re-armament were approved by a plenary session of. the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives yesterday.

Prior to the adoption: he Bill, the Minister for the Na Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, in reply to a question, stated that international friction might possibly occur during the construction of a "new order" in East Asia, "which Japan is undertaking to establish lasting peace in this part of the world."

The Government, the Navy Minister went on, would endeavour to settle such friction as much as possible through diplomatic negotiations. He expressed the fear, however, that "diplomatic negotiations sometimes feil to achieve their purpose Admiral declared that the supplementary estimates submitted to the de against Diet the worst ey Route ntualit

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