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Authors: Herbert P. Bix

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7.
In a political intelligence report of 1941, naval analysts concluded that the first Konoe cabinet had “lacked passion and implementing power to forge ahead strongly in a particular direction with all the ministers united.” Cited in K
ketsu,
Nihon kaigun no sh
sen k
saku: Ajia-Taiheiy
sens
no saikensh
, p. 47.

8.
The imperial order (
Rinsanmei
No. 64) is cited, along with detailed chronology, in
Senshi s
sho: rikukaigun nenpy
, fuki heigo, y
go no kaisetsu
(1980), p. 11, and reproduced in full in
Senshi s
sho: Shina jihen rikugun sakusen (1): Sh
wa j
sannen ichigatsu made
(1975); see also Fujiwara Akira, “Tenn
to ky
ch
,” in Igarashi Takeshi, Kitaoka Shinichi, eds., “
S
ron” Tokyo saiban to wa nan datta no ka
(Tsukiji Shokan, 1997), p. 147.

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