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...Liberal leader, chunky, elderly Ichiro Hatoyama, had been grilled by U.S. newsmen over his book, Face of the Earth, written in 1938 and studded with praise of Naziism, Fascism and Japanese expansion in China. Asked if he now considered himself a suitable candidate for office, the flustered Liberal had stuttered: "My thoughts . . . were wrong ... I have no confidence...
...their muscles and criticized the old regime. Hundreds of letters, denouncing and demanding, broke into astonishing print. Politicians and intellectuals, eager to please the Americans, were busy forming new political parties. Long-repressed concepts came up in their talk: universal suffrage, proportional representation, free economy, free trade. Old Ichiro Hatoyama, leader of the rising Liberal Party, talked soberly of strengthening the Diet and weakening the Army and Navy. The forms and manners of party rule were not new to the Japs, whose Diet (Parliament) is 55 years old. But the feel and substance of freedom were entirely new. The plain...
Across this comparative calm the stain of scandal suddenly spread last week. Renegades of the majority Seiyukai party rose to link Minister of Education Ichiro Hatoyama and Railways Minister Chuzo Mitsuchi with the recent significant merger of all Japanese steel works. They charged that the steel companies had cash-bribed Ministers Hatoyama & Mitsuchi and 130 Representatives. Furious voices screamed back & forth in the Diet, named Hatoyama with menacing frequency. True or false, the scandal was of the kind that traditionally makes Cabinets reach for their hats. Premier Saito was ready to "release" Hatoyama, hoped against hope that that would...