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...shadow of a shady past rose last week to smite ambitious Ichiro Hatoyama. His Liberal Party had won a thumping plurality in Japan's first postwar Diet elections; after long hesitation Premier Shidehara had recommended the stocky, 63-year-old politico to the Emperor as his successor. Then the Allied Supreme Commander spoke. "The Japanese Government," said a MacArthur directive, "having failed to act on its own responsibility, the Supreme Commander has determined the facts relative to Hatoyama's eligibility . . . finds he is an undesirable person." Hatoyama...
...with militarism, it would not be difficult to strike at MacArthur by bringing charges against members of any government that might be formed. Premier Kijuro Shidehara was about to resign because he had received little support in the recent elections; the man who had received the most support was Ichiro Hatoyama, head of the Liberal Party, who was well-smeared with anti-democratic stain (TIME, April...
...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...
...last week, after the returns were in Ichiro Hatoyama recovered his confidence. As chief of Japan's biggest party, he pressed for a new Government, with himself as premier...
...flexed 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...