Gen, Abe suiceeéded in organizing his Government in one day, the Ministers being inducted into office on August 30. With the settlement of the Chiña Affair as its cardinal policy, the new Government launched into its task with vigour, presaging well for its sitecéss.
On _Séptember 12, the creation of the Headquarters of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces to China was announced, while three days later, five months of sanguinary fighting on the border of Manchoukuo and Outer Mongolia was brought to an end by a truce negotiated in Moscow between Mr, Shigenori Togo, Japanese Ambassador, and Mi. V.L Molotoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar.
The outbreak of war in Europe on September 3, caused the Government to impose stringent regulations on stock market transactions, while commodity prices, transportation and storage charges, rents, salaries, wages, insurance rates and processing charges were "freezed" at levels prevailing on September 18 to prevent "war boom" inflation.
American-Japanese relations came into the limelight when Gen, Abe asked Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, retired, to resign from his post as president of the Peers' School to assume the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, Admiral Nomura, who took the post on September 25, was chosen avowedly because of his wide circle of friends in the United States, where he had resided for many years, while on duty with the Japanese Embassy in Washington.
Attention was further drawn to the its alleged "fawning diplomacy" towards the United States and the various prevailing internal economic hardships came into the open or December 26 when e Lower House eu lines to stage a private meeting a resolution of non-confidence in Government was adopted, Gen. Abe minimized this outbreak, contender shat it was not representative of the people's temper.
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