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Died. Baron Reijiro ("The Archer") Wakatsuki, 83, Japan's democrat, onetime head of the old Minseito (peace) party, twice prewar Premier, helpless opponent of the army's 1931 march into Manchuria (he resigned shortly after); after long illness; near Ito, Japan...
...Soviet relations, with a view to possible rapprochement; to end "reliance" on the U. S. and Great Britain; to leave political-party members out of the Cabinet, at least until the new nationalist single party, which Prince Konoye has been fostering, comes into being. At week's end Minseito, the only important group which had not signified its support of the single-party idea...
...Japanese eyes, the idea grew in favor. But when Nazi legions rolled into the Lowlands and France, the Japanese could no longer resist their penchant for imitating a good thing. Late in May, Seiyukai's Kuhara urged a totalitarian party first upon his Seiyukai rival, then on the Minseito leader. Both took to the idea-providing the right leader (not Kuhara) could be found. By June 6 Kuhara had plenty of courage and supporters. On that day he presented Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai with an "ultimatum" proposing a, Nazi-like party with a razor-edge program: 1) break relations...
Soon Takao Saito was the centre of a storm. Newspapers criticized him for criticizing Japan, but said that there was much in what he said-that it was even possible that a majority of Japanese agreed with him. To save face, the Minseito Party expelled him from its ranks. But when it was discovered that he had been secretly intriguing for an antimilitarist, Party-dominated Cabinet, the Army went out for his political hide...
...replace the restraining influence of Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, the Premier brought burly, oval-faced General Kazushige Ugaki from retirement. A onetime vegetable peddler, General Ugaki is a liberal leader of the Minseito party, has been Minister of War five times...