Toe Japanese press mentions Mr. Yosuke "Matsuoka as one of the strongest candidates for the post of Japanese Ambassador in Washington, Mr. Matsuoka was formerly President of the South Manchuria Railway, and was also chief Japanese delegate at Geneva, leading the 'Japanese delegation which terminated Japan's membership of the 'League of Nations during' the initial stages of the Manchurian "incident."
Other diplomatic changes fore shadowed here' include the appointment of Mr. Renzo Sawada, Viec-
Tokyo, Sept. 26.
Mr, Renzo Sawada, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, was. Invested with the rank of Japanese Ambassador to France by the Emperor in a ceremony held inthe Phoenix Hall" of the Imperial Palace at 150 o'clock this afternoon. Gen. Nobuyuki Abe, the Premier, who attended the ceremony, handed "Mr. Sawada his. letters patent.
Meantime, the Cabinet today approved the appointment of Mr. Masayuki "Tani, former Japanese Minister-at-large in Shanghai, to succeed Mr. Sawada as vice-minister.
Mr. Tani was originally chosen to succeed the late Dr, Yotaro Sugimuru fas envoy to Paris but Ifis appointment was not accepted by the French government.
Meantime, the "Asahi Shimbun" to: day predicted that the Japanese Government would abandon its former policy of strengthening the anti-Comintern pact in order to pursue a policy of conciliation with both the Totalitarian Powers and the demo-oracles on the basis of Japan's own Standpoint determined by" her -ob-Jeetive of disposing the China cantlet.
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