Most prominent innocents last week: ¶Prince Fumimaro Konoye, thrice Premier of Japan, and Tojo’s predecessor. He had been working ostentatiously on a new, liberal constitution for Japan.

Inside the government was a powerful faction led by Prime Minister Prince Fumimaro Konoye that desperately did not want a war with the United States. The “pro-Anglo-Saxon” camp included the ...

Both of the leading parties in the Diet reiterated the same demand. A month after the election, Hayashi did resign, and was succeeded by Prince Konoye, who found no difficulty in forming a Cabinet ...

Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye last week cried accusingly at French Ambassador Charles Arsène-Henry: “The most important route left for transportation of arms to [Chinese Generalissimo ...