Evening star., 1942-09-17
MasaYuki 1ani, s.,
Is Named japanese
Foreign Minister
Former Junior Official
At Embassy Here Gets
Toeo's Old Position

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC (From Japanese Broad
casts, Sept. 17.-Masayuki Tani,
53-year-o career diplomat who
has been president of the Board
of Information since Gen. Hi
deki Toto became Premier II
months ago, was named Foreign
Minister today.
He took over the post from the
Premier, who has held 1t provision
ally since the resignation September
of Shigenori Togo, and will con-
tinue also to head the Board of In
formation.
CThe resignation of Togo, who
prepared last years Soviet-Jap-
anese neutrality pact, was widely
interpreted at the time as clear
ing the way for a renunciation Of
that pact and an attack on
Siberia. *E
(Further possible signs that
Siberia may be attacked, or that
q blow against British India may
be imminent were seen yesterday
in a statement attributed to Gen.
Shunroku Hata, Japanese COM
mander in chief in China, that
''the East Asia war is about to
take an important step in CO.
operation with the European
war.')
Hirohito Receives Premier.
Other developments today in
cluded:
Emperor Hirohito received the
Premier In audience and was given
a report on general administrative
affairs. ~.
Former Premier Baron Kiichiro
Hiranuma, former Foreign Minister
Hachiro Arita and former Com
munications Minister Ryutaro Nagai
left Toxic for Nanking as special
ENJOYS on an official goodwill mis-
sion to the Japanese-sponsored
Marking regime.
KaZuo Aoki, former financial ad-
wiser to the Nanking regime, was
named a minister Of state In the
Japanese cabinet.
The new foreign minister entered
the Japanese foreign service in 1914.
He served in China, Germany, the
Netherlands and France before be-
coming Junior first secretary Of the
Japanese Embassy in Washington In
1927.
Went to Manchukuo.
He became director of the Asia
bureau in 1880 but three years later
went to Manchukuo. He was min
lister to Austria and Hungary in
1886 but return to Toxic to become
vice minister of foreign affairs un-
der Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura in
September, 1889. ,
In January. 1899, eight months
before he became vice minister of
foreign affairs, Tani was nominated
to be Japanese Ambassador to
Paris-but the French government
rejected him.
The French charged that in the
previous July, while he was in
China, he had publicly cast doubt
on formal French assurances that
trafic in war supplies to China
through French Indo-C China had
been forbidden. The Japanese gov
ernment defended Tani-but had to
nominate another Ambassador for
the Paris post.
Tani, stocky, bald, aggressive, be-
longs to the small Foreign Office
| group which from the beginning has
supported the army's program OF
continental expansion at the ex-
pense of China. He was one OF the
original advocates of the greater
East Asia co-prosperity sphere" pol
icy, which, as counselor of the Jap
anese Embassy in Manchukuo from
1888 to 1896, he helped establish.
Record Recalled.
His appointment may indicate
that consolidation of the "co-pros-
perity sphere" in the territory al
ready conquered is to be the first
principle Of Toxic policy. However
although he has given no clear in.
dication of his attitude toward Rus
sia, his record does not suggest thai
he would oppose the army if it de.
cided that an attack on Siberia
must be made.
A Toxic dispatch broadcast b!
the Berlin radio said that Aoki, tn,
new minister of state, would becom,
head Of the projected ministry TO
Greater East Asia. which is to b'
established to direct administration
Of Japan's conquests in Asia ant
the Netherlands Indies.
This ministry will take over mucl
Of the authority now held by tn,
foreign ministry, dispatches havl
indicated, and one reason given b,
Toxic for Togo's resignation Va.