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...much was being done to boot him out of command. Though most of the noise was coming from the extreme left and right, the real threat lay among men of Yoshida's own conservative stripe. Men like Ichiro Hatoyama of Yoshida's own Liberal Party, and Mamoru Shigemitsu, leader of the rival and equally conservative Progressives, were talking last week of forming a conservative coalition during Yoshida's absence, to force him out on his return. But if this worried foxy Shigeru Yoshida, he did not show it. If he can come back from his trip with...
...Work All Night." Yoshida's conservative coalition (his own Liberals and Mamoru Shigemitsu's Progressives) easily musters a majority, a fact which drives his Socialist opposition into foaming rages. At lunch one day last week, Yoshida had more than his usual two Martinis. Afterward in the Diet, the sleepy-lidded Prime Minister appeared to doze. "Aha!" cried a Socialist. "We work all night on important legislation and the Prime Minister gets drunk and passes out in the Diet...
...hour last week, in a villa by the sea, Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and Progressive Party Chief Mamoru Shigemitsu conferred on a measure to give Japan new world stature as a sovereign nation. Then the two party leaders, the most influential men in Japan, issued a joint statement that Japan's defenses should be strengthened, "in view of the present world situation, and of the rising spirit of independence among Japanese people." The plan...
...form a new coalition, Yoshida may have to welcome back some of the errant Hatoyamaites or make a deal with the rightist Progressive Party of peg-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu. Yoshida will need all the cooperation he can get from the right, because the left is getting stronger at every election. This week 138 Socialists and one Communist were elected. A year ago there were only 46 Socialists in the Lower Chamber...
...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...