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...growing stronger in the Diet; Yoshida's conservative Liberal Party is not big enough for a majority alone. Seven weeks ago Yoshida brought the Progressive Party (a conservative splinter group) back into line on rearmament. Then the Fox turned to a group of conservatives headed by a:ling Ichiro Hatoyama, who once presided over the party Yoshida now runs...
...Ichiro Hatoyama might be Japan's first minister today in place of Yoshida. except that he 1) was purged by the MacArthur occupation (he was later de-purged); 2) suffered a stroke in 1950 which left him partly paralyzed; 3) is an emotional man whose impulsive acts have sometimes damaged his career. Nine months ago, with 34 other Diet members. Hatoyama broke away from the Yoshida Liberals on the ground that the Premier was too arrogant, too bent on having...
...from politically dead. In Japan's second election in its first year of full independence, Yoshida's conservative, pro-American Liberal Party won 199 of the 466 seats in the Lower Chamber of the Diet. Yoshida did not get an absolute majority, because the rebels, led by Ichiro Hatoyama, campaigned on a splinter ticket. But cigar-chewing Shigeru Yoshida won enough seats to earn his fifth crack at the premiership...
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...
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...