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...replace the restraining influence of Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, the Premier brought burly, oval-faced General Kazushige Ugaki from retirement. A onetime vegetable peddler, General Ugaki is a liberal leader of the Minseito party, has been Minister of War five times...
...optimistic view of the future is warranted," said Foreign Minister Koki Hirota in Tokyo last week in a warning to the Japanese people to "prepare for possible extreme personal financial sacrifices...
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, addressing the Imperial Diet at Tokyo last week, declared: "Whenever and wherever Chiang Kai-shek [Chinese Generalissimo and Man of 1937] falls into the hands of our forces he will be beheaded...
Ordinarily Mr. Hirota works overtime upholding such fine distinctions as the diplomatic nicety that Japan and China today are still officially at peace. That even the Foreign Office chief should last week threaten the head of a "friendly nation" with death showed how desperately exasperated many Japanese are becoming by China's continued resistance, increasingly exhausting to the Empire...
...after Mr. Hirota s speech Emperor Hirohito published a poem: Peaceful is morning in the Shrine garden; World conditions, it is hoped, also will be peaceful...