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...studied economics, began thinking in broad terms of Pacific, not simply Indies, economics. He found his right niche in 1934 when he entered the Department of Economic Affairs. In 1936 he represented the Indies at the Pan-Pacific Conference in California, and there he met that veteran diplomat, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, who was to succeed Ichizo Kobayashi as negotiator for Japan with the Indies...
...refined oil, but no aviation gasoline. Then it was revealed that the British had contracted for the Indies' entire high-octane output. Kobayashi discovered that it was necessary for him to return home for the 2,600th anniversary of the Empire's founding. Two months later Yoshizawa replaced...
...Yoshizawa was calculated to be more than a match for Amateur Diplomat van Mook. Muttered Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, longtime policymaker for the Japanese Navy, as the negotiations opened: "We have a right to ask the East Indies to cooperate with us ... and to ask them for the materials needed for our common prosperity and existence. . . . There is no cause for hesitation. It all depends on Japan's own determination." Minister van Mook was also determined...
...altogether and peacefully repairing Japan's failing trade with the U.S. and the whole South Pacific area. There were plenty of Japanese last week, in Government as well as elsewhere, who believed that Japan should either continue negotiations with The Netherlands East Indies or, at most, recall Commissioner Yoshizawa and wait for a better bargaining time...
...week's end sealed instructions were sent to Commissioner Yoshizawa, but it did not seem likely that they would portend war. Not for years had the shifting internal conflicts of Japanese Government seemed to lead to more indecision...