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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical, these Japanese comments were partly explained by the fact that Premier Ki Inukai was known as "the Old Fox, famed for slyness and trickery (TIME, Dec 21). Moreover the name of his Seiyukai Party has long been a Japanese byword for corruption. Last week prominent citizens of Tokyo, reluctant to comment on the killing of the Old Fox, spoke instead about Parliamentary Government, called it "alien," speculated upon the possible benefits of a return to Japanese Medievalism?as though that were possible...
Meanwhile ancient Premier Ki Inukai, 77, was quietly puffing a cigaret not in his home but in the Official Residence of Japan's Premier directly facing the new Diet Building. With him were his daughter-in-law, her two children and a family friend, Mr. Tanaka. Outside police stood guard...
...Japanese Army circles there was threatening War talk, based on reports that Russia had massed 70,000 Red Army soldiers near Vladivostok and more along her Manchurian frontier. Therefore more Japanese troops must be rushed into Manchuria?but how was the civilian Cabinet of Premier Ki Inukai to pay the cost? Japanese business has seldom been so bad. Silk, that leading Japanese export, slumped to a new low price last week. There remained only one more practicable move: "controlled inflation...
...Cabinet last week was in a state bordering chaos. The Minister of Interior had resigned and such a squabble for his place ensued that Premier Ki Inukai was obliged to become temporarily his own Minister of Interior, was solemnly invested as such by the Sublime Emperor...
Direct beneficiaries of the assassinations ,are cackling, rheumy-eyed Premier Ki Inukai of Japan (called "The Old Fox") and a group of Japanese militarists whose powers last week approached dictatorship. Against them weakly stood the aged Prince Saionji, 92, adviser to the Emperor, Count Makino, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and possibly the Emperor himself. Two months ago a bomb, thrown under the carriage of Dr. Ichiki, Minister of the Imperial Household, exploded within 50 ft. of the "Son of Heaven" (TIME...