GENERAL TOJO PROMISES SPEEDY ACTION

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 21, 20 October 1941, Page 8

GENERAL TOJO PROMISES SPEEDY ACTION

Japan’s “Unshakeable”' Policies

LONDON THINKS MILITARISTS HAVE WON DAY Received October 19, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, October 18. The new Japanese Prime Minister, General Tojo, in a broadcast address, declared that the present crisis would be settled by speedy action in Japan’s unshakeable policies for the successful settlement of the China “incident” and the establishment of a co-prosperity sphere in East Asia with the ultimate object of contributing to world peace. Japanese newspapers emphasize that Japan’s foreign policy will continue to be based on the Axis Pact. The “Asahi Shinfbun” says Japanese industrial and business leaders have agreed to sink all differences to support General Tojd's Cabinet to the utmost and to set Japan upon a complete war'footing. : ' The Japan “Times and Advertiser” says confidence in any Government under General Tojo prevails throughout the nation, lhe new Japanese Government will strengthen the position of the Powers marching into a new age under the flag of the Tripartite Pact. The choice for the Prime Ministership of General Tojo, who is notoriously anti-British, is regarded in London as ominous. All the London newspapers believe that the resignation of the Japanese Cabinet at a critical moment of the Russo-German war means that the Japanese militarists have won the day. Japan, they believe, may now take up for Germany the role of “back-stabber” which Italy played during the collapse of France. Swift naval and military moves may now precipitate a crisis in the Far East.