Evening star., 1934-01-22
ANT|-WAR GROUPS
RISE IN Japan SEEN
AS ARAK| RET|RES
Press Sees War Lords Res
ignation Timed With Fall
of Army Clique.
HAYASHI, SUCCESSOR,
STERN MILITARY TYPE
Is More Conservative Than Man
Who Dominated Foreign Pol.
icy Last Two Years.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
TOXIC, January 22.-Gen. Sadao
Araki, who in the eyes of the world
pensonif1ed the militant spirit with
which the japanese nation has been
imbued in the last two years, relin-
quished the portfolio of minister of
war today and at least temporarily
retired from the political stage.
Premier Saito. after futilely urging
the bedridden warlord to reconsider.
accepted his resignation.
Afterward the premier acquiesced to
the recommendation of members of an
informal conference of high-ranklng
military leaders that Gen. Senjuro
Hayashi succeed Araki. Gen. Jinzaburo
Mazaki, member of the supreme war
council, was chosen to succeed Hay
ashi as inspector general of military
education.
To Be Installed Tomorrow.
Hayashi's formal installation was
scheduled for tomorrow. He will be in
Quoted into Office in time to take his
seat on the government bench when
Parliament is reconvened.
1t was considered too early today
confidently to gauge the significance
of the cabinet change. but among jap
anese political writer's and non-Jap-
anese military experts strong opinion
prevailed that Araki's retirement may
be the signal for the suppressed
liberal anti-militarist movement again
to lift its head.
Further, they believed. it may mark
the conclusion of turbulent period
likely to be known in japanese history
as the Araki era, coinciding with
Japans conquest of Manchuria, with
drawal from the League Of Nations, two
of the largest peacetime budgets In
the empires history, recurrent periods
of Japanese American tension and
ever-darkening Russo-Japane nese war
clouds.
Motive Is Obscure.
Some writer's. while not doubling the
eenuineness of Arakis illness from
pneumonia. reported to have been the
cause of his resigning, believed that
the war minister-foreSeeing decline
in the army clique's fortunes-seized
this plausible opportunity to retire with
his prestige unimpaired.
other authorities pointed out that
Gen. Hayashi. while not likely to in
dulge in speeches by which his prede-
cessor periodically excited world chan
cellories, nevertheless is a grim soldier
and a man of action.
When the Manchurian conflict broke
out September 18, 1881, Gen. Hayashi
was commanding a garrison In Korea.
He dispatched his brigade from Korea
to Manchuria on his own responsible
ity to assist in expelling the Chang
Hsiao-Liang regime
During his incumbency in the war
office, Araki was the spokesman and
leader of the more nationalistic ele-
ments in the army.
Dominated Policies.
He attempted, usually successfully, to
dominate all phases of imperial policy
in foreign affairs finance and agrar1an
problems.
Hayashi, although an equally staunch
nationalist and patriot, is credited With
the belief that the army should re-
main oof from politics.
Hayashi was graduated from .he NIL.
itary Academy two classes ahead OF
Araki Therefore, he is older and
more Notwithstanding between
the Araki-ites and the more liberal
army elements of which Gen. lssel
Uyaki. Governor General OF Korea, Is
considered the leader.
Araki became war minister IN the
cabinet of the late Premier 1nukal. A
man OF long military training and high
standing, he was known generally as
the strong man of japanese politics:
It was under his regime as minister OF
war that the major portion OF the
Manchurian campaign was conducted.
Passed Crisis Of Illness.
He became ill January 4, and was
announced to be suffering from influ-
enza. Later it developed into pneu-
monia. but physicians said there was
no immediate danger. He passed the
crisis successfully and in a few days
began to recover.
Araki is small in stature but force
ful and persuasive. He speaks tersely,
sometimes curtly. When Germany quit
the League of Nations he said: Japan
need not be concerned We mapped our
course and we shall pursue it"
He was firmly pledged to the support
Of Japanese American peace. In a
abatement for the Associated Press in
1888 he said: Limitation of armaments
will not be enough. We must come to
a fundamental understanding. mu-
tual determination not to 60 to war;"
RUSSIANS ARE WARNED.