At any rate, I should like to learn the Governments view as to the significance of the construction of a New Order in East Asia, which is the objective of this lofty war and the price of the sacrifices which it implies.
"In this connection I should like to receive an explanation: I have with me a text entitled 'A Draft Reply (to the Government) Regarding The New Order in East Asi published on December 11, 1939. Thi is a reply by the Koa In (China Board) to the Government, reporting the results of studies made by a specially established Commission in the China Board to this effect.
"In this, very difficult terms are used, not easily understandable by us. '(At this point there follows a discussion of difficult official phraseology in Japanese, mostly untranslatable). Some expressions are used in this draft, which we people engaged in actual politics, are unable to understand (Applause) Putting such things aside, I don't understand why the fundamental principles of the construction of a New Order in East Asia, or its spiritual background, should be studied in a specially established commission, "The construction of a New Order is the objective for this large-scale war and its many sacrifices, and I don't understand why it appears only 13% years after the outbreak of the Incident, and furthermore, why its principles and spiritual background shoul be studied by a specially established commission (Applause).
"In this connection, I should like to know why the China Board started such a task by forming a special commission. I don't mind if this is explained either by the Premier or by the President of the China Board."
***At this point, the official stenographic record of tht speech ends. and 3 jon of the end of the address was given by the "Japan Times" on February 3.
Mr. Saito then reviewed world history and said there were only 250 years of real peace in the world during the past 85 centuries,
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