The Archive · 1939

Gaimusho Reshuffle

Anticipated w Envoy-at-Large to Be Stationed in Shanghai Tokyo, Apr. 17.

A reshuffle of Foreign Office personnel both at home and abroad was instituted this morning with Mr. Monte Morishima, Japanese Counsellor in Shanghai slated to be transferred to Moscow in the same capacity, replacing Mr. Haruhiko Nishi, who will be recalled to Tokyo to be appointed director of the Bureau of European and Asiatic Affairs.

Mr. Morishima assumed his Shanghai post on April 25 of last year. The reshuffle follows appointments soon to be made of new ministers to Panama, Iraq, Bulgaria, Venezuela and Portugal A minister at-large, stationed in Shanghai, to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Masayuki Tani, former minister, will also be appointed soon, it was learned.

Mr, Kikuji Yonezawa, Director of the Investigation Bureau, and Mr.

Kojiro Inouye, Director of the European and Asiatic Affairs Bureau. are being mentioned among others əs possible candidates for the ministerial Polish Air Defence Loan Successful Warsaw, Apr. 17.

Commenting upon the present results of the Polish air defence loan, the government paper "Express Poranny that the 250,000,000 zlotys subscribed up to the present were just sufficient to purchase 250 bombing planes. In order to make the loan a complete success, the paper adds, the Polish nation must raise a total of 600,000,000 zlot Trans-Ocean.

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