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Tokyo, Wednesday, Nov. 28--Premier Kiesuke Okada's military-controlled government was threatened with overthrow today with the convening of a special session of the Imperial Diet to consider serious financial and political issues endangering the life of his cabinet...
That Japan is in dead earnest appeared from the fact that her "scheme"' was roughed out at an acrimonious conference last week between those two tomcats of Japanese statecraft, Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi and Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. Over their snarling presided Premier Keisuke Okada, who arrived from an audience with the Son of Heaven...
...mind to expect such a radical change so suddenly," flashed the Premier, and his hearers bowed forward eagerly. Did this mean that he was going to buck the Navy's demand for Japanese equality? Suavely Admiral Okada covered himself, "I repeat that it is not in my mind to expect such radical changes so suddenly but I do not favor the present ratio principle. It hurts the self-respect of nations...
Answering other questions Premier Okada took a stiffer line. He said that his Government is "considering" whether to abrogate the present 5-5-3 Washington Treaty in advance of the Conference. Japan, though she has" left the League of Nations, will not give up the South Sea Islands she received as "mandates" from the League, but means to keep them as integral parts of her Empire. By the time Premier Okada was through, most correspondents present were convinced that in failing to demand parity now, he was merely pulling for the present a punch which Japan will deliver as soon...
...Tokyo the Swanson proposal was received by Premier Okada with glacial silence, but Navy officers who are his friends roasted it scorchingly in the Japanese Press. They declared that some reduction in naval armaments is desirable but that "obviously" the U.S. and Britain should make greater sacrifices than Japan. According to Asahi ("Today"), a news-organ close to the Premier. "The main [Japanese] complaint is over the Secretary of the Navy's assertion that the 5-5-3 ratio must continue, which seemingly indicates that all Japan's efforts to enlighten the United States have not made the slightest impression...