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...Little brown Haile Selassie, whom Britain again recognizes as Ethiopia's rightful Emperor, passed by plane through Khartoum on his way to join his warriors somewhere on his former country's border. Said he: "Italy has set the seal of her own doom and has provided my people with the moment to strike. . . . We shall fight with the utmost tenacity. . . . God's time is now at hand...
Selection of a new Premier is usually a long, mysterious, behind-the-scenes intrigue, but last week the choice was made with curious dispatch. Immediately upon receiving Admiral Yonai's resignation, the Emperor summoned to his seaside resort Marquis Koichi Kido, his new Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, traditional adviser on choice of officials. Marquis Kido, who is barely five feet tall, weighs only 120 pounds, requires only two-thirds of the orthodox amount of silk for a kimono, and has such tiny feet that he has to buy children's shoes, humbly begged a short period...
...Konoye a wooden sword of authority-by the entirely unprecedented step of summoning an advisory conference including six former Premiers (including Prince Konoye himself, who held the office in 1937-39). All of them, including Konoye, wanted Konoye. Kido consulted with Elder Statesman Saionji, then reported to the Emperor. Within 24 hours of Yonai's resignation, the Emperor commanded Prince Konoye to form a Cabinet...
...dictator. Even the Army looked as if it liked being told what to do (because it was told to do virtually what it wanted). But there was almost too much novelty in Japan last week. Seasoned bystanders expected Konoye would eventually get bored, or the Army restive, or the Emperor cautious. In the meantime, Japan was taking to its imitation of Naziism with surprising coordination. Furthermore, the projected policies of Prince Konoye in East Asia were calculated to accomplish what every Japanese passionately desires: make the white man either get friendly or get out. The Japanese, a poetic people, thought...
...outstanding difficulties facing the single party were: 1) how to reconcile its absolute political authority with the irrevocable divine will of the Emperor; 2) how to discipline the Army, which in three years has developed practically unbreakable habits of willfullness. But not the least of the difficulties was within Prince Konoye himself...