The Archive · 1938

Formation of Gaimusho Brain Trust Foreseen

Envoy in Budapest Called Home to Assist Chief Tokyo, Nov. 16.

Formation of an expert body of executive assistants by Mr. Hachiro Arita, the new Foreign Minister, foreseen by observers here today as instructions were issued to Mr. Hajime Matsumi Japanese Minister to Hungary, to return home.

Mr. Matsumiya, it was generally understand, will assume the direction of the proposed Planning Bureau the Foreign Office. This new n will come into being by the reform of the present Section of Investigation.

Regarded as likely to form an "executive triumvirate" in the Foreign Office with Mr. Matsumita are Mr, Setsuzo Sawada, vice-mi ter for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. She Kurihara. director of the Bureau of East Asiatic Affairs—Domei,

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