The new powers given Gen, Abe, however provide him with the right to issue necessary instructions to other Stale Ministers in connec with the enforcement of the This stipulation, Japanese politicians believed, would ward off pos ible constitutional controversy. The organization of the Trade Ministry, Jepanese said, would result in the following:
1, A unified plan for foreign te ade, Formulation of a regional plan for' foreign trade not only for "Yen bloc" countries bul for Third Powers, Sirengthening of the foreign trade policy under the Unined sy tem.
Simplification administra Keeps out of Politics His adversity to talk makes him oer politician, "tam a poor hand Jat wagging my tongue and deluding people, "he was once quoted as hav-Ing said." No politics for me," the "Asahi" reported he had added.
He has often been offered the post lof War Minister but has consistently acoined the porto "because it [would mean getting into politics." [cording to the "Asahi.
While in Manchoukuo, he was once lsenfor officer to Lieut. Gen, Itagaki, lout concentrated his efforts upon manquvres earning the sobriquet of "drill general". "Til attend to the fighting, let, Itagaki do the adminis trative work," he wns reported to have said at the time.
The chief of stof, Lieut, Gen. Htagaki, is a native of Iwate protec ture in northern Japan. He is 54 lyeers old. hig classmates, the Military Academy were the late [Lieut-Gen. Teysuzan Nagato, Lieut. JGen, "Kenji Dothara, dubbed "the [Lawrence of Manchuria," and Lieut. JGen. Rensuke Isogal, who was recent ly relieved of his post of chief of the Kwantung Army.
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