Tokyo, Apr. 11.
Ir the Premier, Prince Konoye has any intention of resigning his post. the Japanese Army is opposed to such action and has impa: ted its views to that effect to the Government, according to the "Chugai Shogyo," largest commercial daily in Japan.
Reports recently current were denied immediately by Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, Home Minister, and Marquis Koichi Kido, Minister of education and Public Welfare, who declared that Prince Konoye has no intention of leaving his post.
Prince Konoye cannot be permitted to resign "merely because of some private feelings about the situation," the Army authorities are understood ie have declared, according to the daily.
Col, Kaneshiro Shibayama, Chief of the Military Affairs Section of the War Office's bureau of military affairs, was reported to have discussed the situation with Mr, Akira Kazami, Chief Secretary of the Cabinet, and conveyed the Army's expectations that there will be no "letdown on the home front," the paper stated, That the Cabinet should take "positive steps" to enforce all the legislation, including the mobilization Law, passed by the recent Diet, is the predominant note of the Army's viewpoint, the daily understood—Domei.
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