The Archive · 1940

Foreign Ministry Post

Tokyo, July 1 Prospects of Mr. Yosuke Mat suoka's participation in. the new Japanese Government which will be headed by Prince Ayamar Konoye, increased this afternoon as com= petent political quarlers predicted that the former chief of the Japanese delegation to the League of Nations would assume the Foreign Affairs. portfolio.

Newspapers, including the Yomiuri and the Nichi-Nichi, predicted that the new War Minister will be Licul-Gen. Hideki Tejo, "Super intendent-General of the Air Fores, while the Navy Minister will Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, Com= mander-in-chief of the Yokosuka Naval Base and formerly Com= mander-in-Chief of the Japanese China Seas Fleet.

The important Home OMice Port folio will be held concurrently Prince Konoye while Mr. Jui Teushima, Vice-Governor of the Bank of Japan, will be Minister of Finanee—Domei

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