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Yoshida's intraparty troubles stem from a promise he made in 1946, when he took over the party presidency from Ichiro Hatoyama, who had just been declared by Douglas MacArthur to be ineligible for any office of public trust. Yoshida assured Hatoyama that he would step down if Hatoyama should ever be eligible to hold office again. When the occupation ended, Hatoyama was free to play politics, but Yoshida hedged. Last fall, when the Liberals won a slim majority in the Diet, Yoshida-who controlled the party machinery-got himself renamed Premier. Hatoyama gave in but did not give...
...Fortnight ago their chance came. Yoshida was under attack in the press for following a foreign policy "subservient" to that of the U.S. Socialists accused him of rearming Japan before Japan can afford rearmament; rightists warned that he is not rearming Japan fast enough to meet the Communist threat. (Hatoyama favors direct rearmament, wants to remove the disarmament pledge which MacArthur put into the Japanese constitution; Yoshida prefers the subterfuge of a national police force...
Possible Coalition. Yoshida boasts that his party will win a greater majority in the new elections than they got in October. But with Hatoyama and his dissident Liberals running on a splinter ticket, Yoshida may get beaten. The opposition is scattered, but might unite in a coalition headed by Hatoyama or by one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, the Progressive Party leader, who, as Foreign Minister, signed Japan's surrender aboard the Missouri, and was convicted as a war criminal...
Return of the Purged. Yoshida's principal difficulty is that he presides over a divided party. Among the winning candidates were 139 former war criminals and ultra-nationalists once purged from government by the U.S. authorities. First among them is ailing Ichiro Hatoyama, 69, founder and first leader of the Liberal Party, who was all set to become Japan's first postwar premier until U.S. newsmen discovered that he had once glowingly praised Hitler and Mussolini. He was purged. Yoshida agreed to take his place, but now that Hatoyama is free again, Yoshida refuses to surrender control...
Yoshida tried to create the impression that Hatoyama, who suffered a stroke last year, is too sick to take over; visiting him not long ago, Yoshida made a great show of offering him pillows, later volunteered to read Hatoyama's speech for him. In last week's election, Hatoyama polled more votes than any other candidate. Almost alone of Liberal candidates, he urged that the Japanese constitution be revised to permit rearmament. Yoshida, though pro-Western, ducked the delicate rearmament question. When the Liberals meet at the end of this month to choose a Prime Minister, Hatoyama will...