"Immutable Policy" and "Sacred Campaign"
Tokyo, Feb. 3.
TAPEN'S policy for the settlement of the China conflict was "fixed and immutable," Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, the Premier, declared before packed galleries in the Lower House tonight as the Diet, went into session eight hours behind schedule. intend to seek a solution of the present situation by exerting all our means in proceeding, with firm determination, along the course set by this policy," the Prime Minister stated.
Admiral Yonai mounted the rostrum immediately after Speaker Shoju Koyama had announced that Mr. Takao Saito, a leading member of the majority Minseito party, would face a disciplinary committee of the House for his statement made in the Diet yester~ day. The Premier recalled that he had made the Government's attitude towards the China question clear in his reply to Mr. Saito's interpellation yesterday but because of the "gravity of the question" he wished to clarify his views.
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