NATIONAL UNITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 5

NATIONAL UNITY

TASK FOR NEW CABINET DEFINED BY JAPANESE PRESS. ATTITUDE OF UNITED STATES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, October 17. General Tojo, the new Prime Minister, was appointed military attache at the Japanese Embassy in Berlin in 1919 and was Chief of Staff of the Japanese Armies in North China til 1938, when he returned to Tokio to become Vice-Minister of War. The Tokio “Nichi Nichi Shimbun” states that Japan has resolved to break through the impasse with the United States and that the people are united in demonstrating unflinching power. The “Asahi Shimbun” said that since Prince Konoye’s Cabinet resigned on account of disagreement and disunity, it could only be expected that the next Cabinet would be headed by a person who would buckle down to the task of reinforcing national unity with faith and with personal courage.

The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says there is apparent a determination in official quarters to meet force with force if, as a result of the Tokio crisis, Japan should move into Siberia, the Netherlands East Indies or Thailand. The United States Government is calm and determined. It is convinced that further economic and political manoeuvres to check Japan’s expansionism would be futile.