Other principles which guided the Finance Ministry in preparing the Bydget were:
1. The Budget must be laid down to meet the needs of long-term wa Al "expenditures for "post-war enterprises to be excluded from ihe Budget, as being premature, and Japan must carry on it? necemary measures for war. If the incident closes within the next financial year, ending on March 31, 1939, an extraordinary Diet Session "Will be asked 1o approve an additional budget.
3. The Government should meet, as far as possible, the ordinary military expenditures, to enable the Army and Navy to carty out their already defined replenishment programmes.
4. Even enterprises arranged by civil Mi E y approved by the Diet. should. be postponed while their ordinary expenditures, must ako be
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