894.00/1085a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
412. The Japanese Ambassador in the course of a call on July 18 made at his request discussed the composition of the new Cabinet. [Page 332] He said that Admiral Toyoda was a close personal friend, and that as it was upon the insistence of Toyoda that Nomura had agreed to come here as Ambassador, Toyoda was under personal obligation to Nomura.
Nomura expressed the view that the new Cabinet was much stronger than the preceding one, that many of the admirals and generals in the Cabinet were in reality representatives of business interests rather than merely representatives of the Navy and Army; and that Hiranuma and the strong representation of the Navy were stabilizing influences in the Cabinet.