"NEW WORLD ORDER"

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1940, Page 8

"NEW WORLD ORDER"

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

TOKIO RECOMMENDATION

Rec. 6.30 p.m. Tokio, Sept. 14. Japan's preparatory commission for the establishment of a "new national structure" to-day adopted a platform of regulations aiming at the "construction of a new order in greater East Asia and, further, at the establishment of a new world order." Therefore the commission will be disbanded next week. The Army Minister, LieutenantGeneral Tojo, said the Army intended wholehearted positive support of tlie movement. However, officers and men in the active forces will be prohibited from joining the central directing body. The War Ministers and a few others alone will be permitted to take part as advisers, while ex-servicemen will be eneouraged. Mr. Matsuoka, Foreign Minister, addressing the Japanese Trade Association, said that the greater East Asia programme was at present concentrated on the acquisition materials and arranging sources of supply, to which Mr. Kobayashi's assignment to the Dutch East Indies related. "In establishing a greater East Asia and the common prosperity of that sphere it is necessary to co-operate with countries having similar aspirations and simultaneously crush all obstacles in the path," he said. "Japan, in order to cope with the present complex international situation, must put her house in order domastically, strengthen her national defence and national power and, in accordance with the spirit of the Imperial way, let each Asiatic race fulfll its own ambition so that all countries may enjoy and maintain common prosperity." Regarding trade with the countries not belonging to the East Asiatic sphere Mr. Matsuoka said that barter methods would be increased.