There had been no moves in Tokyo today to foreshadow a Cabinet resignation although it had been an-pounced during the afternoon that an extraordinary Cabinet meeting would take place in the evening to discuss an "important subject.
Prior to the resignation a resolution expressing confidence in the Government had been passed by the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry at its Council meeting in Tokyo, At this meeting it was also decided to mobilize Japan's whole economic power to overcome the national emergency and to send pi ions to the Ministries of Commerce and Industry, Agriculture and Forestry, and the Planning Board to place Jepan on a total wartime footing by revise ing the Government's policies regarding price control, as well as to readjust situation in business and industrial life
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