Policy; Konoye Formula To Be Followed in China Tokyo, Nov. 21. central government in China will.
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forthcoming "as soon as possible" but will "certainly depend upon the kind of government to be organized," the Premier, Gen. Nobuyuki Abe, told the press here today in a frank discussion of domestic and foreign problems.
Arrangements for the establishment of such a new administration with Mr, Wang Ching-wei, chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the "reformed" Kuomintang, as its central figure, the Prime Minister said, were making "smooth progress In settling the two-year-old China conflict, Gen. Abe continued, the Japanese Government would adhere to a formula based upon the statement' made by Prince Ayamaro Konoye on December 22 last year when he was Premier, The declaration forsook all territorial claims and indemnity demands upon China and sought only the adoption by China of economic collaboration with Japan, coupled with an anti-Communist policy.
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