In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.

Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.

Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.