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When MacArthur planned to hold the first free elections to the Diet (lower house) last spring, Russian representatives on the advisory Allied Council objected. Holding that carly elections would play into the hands of the old, machine, rightist parties and candidates, they asked for postponement. MacArthur went ahead anyway. As the Atlantic Monthly says, "held too soon, the election... put back into power the old industrial, banking, and conservative interests... which had in fact organized the sinews of war." Their Diet has slowed down reform, and left-wing parties are resorting in disgust to demonstrations and strikes while the legislators...
...fine, the United States is suceumbing to its favorite occupational disease. Afraid to death of Russia and Communism we have supported rightist governments everywhere. By failing, however, to offer a dynamic, democratic program to counter Communism, we discourage liberals and left-wingers and thereby encourage Communism. We did it in Italy, we are doing it in the Philippines, China, and Japan. The last is the most inexcusable; for there we started clean, have a growing democratic consciousness to work with, and are muffing the opportunity. In common opposition to Russia, Mr. Atcheson is now lined up with the same Japanese...
Carson Chang's Rightist Social Democrats said perhaps. Dr. Lo Lung-chi's left-wing adherents were noncommittal. Back at the red house, the poll takers reported. The Generalissimo listened, then ordered a postponement-not for three weeks but three days. Unhappily, but feeling they could do nothing else, the five registered for the Assembly, cracked the united front of China's "third parties" against...
...crisp, sunny day Frenchmen last week reluctantly adopted their 14th Constitution-a tripartite compromise draft neither rightist fish nor leftist fowl-rather than heed the adamantine voice of General Charles de Gaulle. Final score: 9,126,370-to-8,043,366 (complete except for a few overseas votes). Explained a Paris shopkeeper...
Thirty-six out of 93 departments rejected the Constitution. It was adopted in such leftist strongholds as Marseilles and Lille, voted down in the rightist bastions of Paris, Bordeaux, Strasbourg...