Tokyo, Aug. 11.
Hachiro Arita, the Foreign Minister, spent a busy day today conferring with Cabinet Ministers and the Premier, Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, 'The fact that he attended a Cabinet meeting and conferred with various Ministers refuted rumours that he had resigned from his post, Other reports, notably from Shanghai, that Mr. Aci had been assassinated' were Mr. Arita, it was announced, con ferred with various Cabinet Ministers relative to the Anglo-Japanese conversations. He also was reported to have discussed the same subject with the Premier and was known to have been closeted with Baron Hiranuma for a long period.
No unusual developments in Japan's foreign policy are expected before August 15, when Mr. Arita is. to resent proposals " countering the suggestions by the War Minister, Lieut-General Seishiro Itagaki, that Japan complete arrangements for a Hormal military alliance with Germany and Italy, The War Minister was reported to have prosenied a strong ease for such fan alliance at the recent meeting of five key ministers. He failed, however, to win tne approval of the other ministers, it was) asserted—United Press,
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