Referring to the new Premier, General Abe, the paper says: "His hands are elean for whatever renovations are necessary. Assurance that they are capable hands is seen in what is remembered of his career before it was cut short, through no fault of his, by the Incident in 1938, for which he and all other non-Imperil members of the Supreme War
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Gounet assumed responsibility by re-"He was most conspicuous og War Vice-Minister under Genera, Ugaki In the Hamaguchi Cabinet between 1929 and 1931, in which capacity he said to have shown a highly operative spirit, "It his association with General Usaki is important as an indication of his relations with the army, it is equally important as an indication of his altitude towards. foreign altai which perhaps may be found in the policy followed by Japan towards the Sino-Soviet war' over the Chinese Eastern Railway in°1928, in which he may be assumed to have had some voice as Vice-Ministe "At least it is possible." the "Japan Advertiser" adds, "to say that Gen. Abe has had experience with moderate views and policies"
The "Miyako" also pays tribute to Baron Hiranuma for leaving the formulation of a new European policy his successor.
The "Hochi" forecasts that General Oshima, the Japanese Ambassador to Germatiy, who was. one of the pronenitors of the anti-Comintern Pact
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