Prominent Chinese business men in Hongkong. including some from Shanghai. are reported by the Chinese press to have recently held a meeting in the colony to make necessary arrangements for a {inde misin (o india under orders from the Ministry of Economics at Chungking. The ministerial-order was recently sent to Chinese Chamber of "Unknown Quantity"
Admiral Toyoda, the -*per stressed, is still an unknown quantity, hut it admitted that it wag perhaps better to find a person for the job. who is not in the trained diplomatic corps. who might "adhere too closely to the niceties of diplomatic rules but an outsider who has a grasp of the situation in its entirety." The journal declared that it would reserve judgment, meanwhile. watch-me developments closely The "Kokumin Shimbun," also commenting on the change of Foreign Minister, expressed fears that it may be followed by wholesale resignation in the sdivlomatic staff abroad, citing such steps taken by Dr. Kumataro Honda. Japanese Ambassador to Nanking, and Mr Chuichi Ohashi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Meanwhile, the "Miyako" emphasized that Japan's diplomacy should "to the last. rest on the fulfillment of an unique mission which faces Japan alone. From first to last. the basis of its foreign policy must be the ending of the China Incident and the expansion of the East Asia prosperity sphere"—Domei.
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