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Wrinkled 85-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), had the same two eminent callers again & again last fortnight. They were harassed Premier Viscount Makoto Saito and his Minister of War, General Senjuro Hayashi. Discord, scandal and sickness have jolted five men out of Saito's Cabinet. Hayashi wanted to be the sixth. Cause was his younger brother Yukichi who had been adopted as a child by the family of Shirakami and taken that name. The General felt that he was still responsible for his brother's acts, whatever his name, and Yukichi...
Japan's Retort. In Tokyo, after the usual consultation with Prince Saionji, "Last of the Genro" or Elder Statesman of Japan, Premier Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito & Cabinet adroitly decided last week, according to their Press spokesman, "to put the whole matter up to the Assembly." They advised the Privy Council and Emperor Hirohito that if the Assembly adopted the Report then Japan must refuse to accept it and withdraw from the League. For good measure the War Office spokesman said that Japan would intensify her offensive to take Jehol about the time the Assembly is expected to vote...
...Tokyo the abrupt Geneva volte-face put fear into Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida, who was most earnestly counseled by the Last of the Genro ("Elder Statesmen") Prince Saionji not to break with the League "until every possibility of compromise has been exhausted." The Count flashed fresh instructions to Japan's Geneva Delegation. Soon with a face all crinkling smiles Delegate Matsuoka announced that Japan accepts the League's Lytton Report as a basis for conciliation, merely stipulating that the League shall "take into consideration actual conditions in Manchuria since the conclusion of the Lytton Report...
...avert an overthrow of the Japanese Constitution, an upset which loomed as a distinct possibility, the aged Prince Saionji came clop-clopping on his wooden sandals back into Japan's political arena last week. Crisis factors which perplexed this last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen" and made Prince Saionji delay for three whole days his advice to the Sublime Emperor included...
What next? Merely the same old futile thing. As custom decrees, His Majesty sent for the Last of the Genro or Elder Statesmen, 83-year-old Prince Saionji. Once again he would advise the Son of Heaven whom to choose as Japan's next Premier. Meanwhile there were rumors (unconfirmed) of mutiny in the Japanese Army & Navy...