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...Purged. The following day another old man, a friend turned enemy, took Yoshida's place as Premier of Japan. Ichiro Hatoyama, 71, crippled from a stroke, hobbled through strewn flashbulbs to an inner room of the Diet, where he faced the press. "I would like to awaken the people," he said, "to a deeper, more serious sense of their independence as a nation ... I intend to institute a careful review of the laws made under the Occupation, upholding those with merits, and discarding those with demerits...
...Ichiro Hatoyama paid scant attention to his own Occupation demerit, the fact that Douglas MacArthur had purged him from public life for "ultra nationalism . . . supporting aggression . . . duplicity." Later Hatoyama remarked: "One American told me-it may have been flattery-that my purge was the Occupation's greatest mistake...
...Advance or Retreat." Hostilities began when Japan's No. 2 conservative, a 71-year-old cripple named Ichiro Hatoyama, led a sizable walkout from the Liberal Party. Hatoyama once led the party, had to turn it over to Yoshida when purged as "undesirable" by Douglas MacArthur, and never got the leadership back. Hostilities deepened when Mamoru Shigemitsu, 65, a crippled ex-war criminal who signed the surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, withdrew the support of his right-wing Progressive Party from Yoshida, leaving Yoshida with only 183 votes in the Lower House of the Diet. The two dissident forces...
Standing before an enormous Rising Sun flag in Tokyo last week, the Democrats' Hatoyama proclaimed: "I am stoutly opposed to Communism, and I am convinced it is not compatible with democracy, but I see no reason for cutting off trade and diplomatic relations with a country simply because it is Communist...
...power dare to leave home at a time when so much was being done to boot him out of command. Though most of the noise was coming from the extreme left and right, the real threat lay among men of Yoshida's own conservative stripe. Men like Ichiro Hatoyama of Yoshida's own Liberal Party, and Mamoru Shigemitsu, leader of the rival and equally conservative Progressives, were talking last week of forming a conservative coalition during Yoshida's absence, to force him out on his return. But if this worried foxy Shigeru Yoshida, he did not show...