The Archive · 1940

South Pacific Problem Settlement Urged

Nakajima Faction Stressed Changing World Order

Tokyo, June 20.

Fundamental settlement of Japan's outstanding problems in the- South Pacific was strongly urged in a statement issued yesterday by the Reformist Faction of the Seiyukai Party headed by Mr. Chikohei Nakajima.

The statement, urging a settlement to bring about a new world order, was adopted by the Faction after its leading officials met at an extraordin nary general meeting yesterday afternoon. The session discussed in detail the nation's problems in the South Pacific area.

The statement declared that while the French request for peace terms is about to bring about an end to the old order in the world, Japan, as a stabilizing power in East Asia, should break her ties with the past and refresh her diplomacy in order to effect a fundamental settlement of her problems in the South Pacific and to proceed with the establishment of a new world order.

Representatives of the Nakajima Faction handed copies of the statement to the Premier, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, the Navy Minister, Vice-Admiral Zengo Yoshida, and War Minister General Shuroku Hata——Domei.

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