Tokyo, Dec, 22.
[nh Diet convenes tomorrow for the 75th time since its inaugural session in 1890, faced with problems growing out of the two-and-a-half year old China war that may well cause the resignation of the Abe Cabinet before the Diet's expected adjournment three months from now.
Problem No. 1 is the urgent necessity of finishing the China war.
Formation of Japanese-sponsored Chinese Government under Wang Ching-wei, it is hoped, will end the struggle in name if not in fact.
No, 2 is the question of settling tangled Japanese-American relations which will reach a head a month from now when the Commercial Treaty of 1911, abrogated by the United States last July with a six months' notice period, expires.
Other thorny subjects on which members will sharply question the Government &re: rising commodity prices, an ever-increasing budget with heavier and heavier military expendi-fures, Japan's relations with Great Britain in China, relations with the Soviet Union along the Siberian border and in northern waters, and this country's attitude towards the current European War.
Actually tomorrow's session is a dress rehearsal fir the legislative debates which begin late in January.
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