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...admit of this leisurely, though ideal, method." By rush methods 100,000 men will be trained in 1933-34. Another shock of the week was a sudden announcement by Tokyo police that they had caught four men red-handed in a plot to assassinate Premier Viscount Makoto Saito. Was there perhaps something strange about this? There was. The four men were caught not last week but last August. News of their plot was hushed by the Government, carefully saved for a purpose. Possibly the Government also had something to do with springing the "revelations" concerning U. S. Minister Johnson...
Something Japanese militarists would rather not think about was held up to their noses last week: the provisional budget for 1933-34. Squint as they might, the Cabinet of white-haired Premier Viscount Saito could not get away from two facts: Japan is faced with the biggest budget and the biggest deficit in her history. Expressed in yen at par the new budget is to balance at $1.100,000,000?a figure staggering in small Japan?with an expected deficit...
...National Government." After the assassination of Premier Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai amid a welter of national resentment against "corrupt politicians" (TIME, May 23), Emperor Hirohito commanded Admiral Viscount Saito to form a new Cabinet. When this Cabinet was formed last week it proved to be a "National Government" (as in Great Britain) but almost as full of so-called "corrupt politicians" as the last Seiyukai Party Cabinet headed by "Old Fox." Specifically the Japanese national family was surprised that the Army and the Treasury have been left in exactly the same hands as before...
From the first, the Japanese delegation saw the futility of discussion under such circumstances; and Admiral Viscount Minoru Saito, Chief Japanese Delegate, accordingly did little more throughout the Parley than to make well-meant efforts to draw the U. S. and British delegations together on some common ground (for example, his idea of a "naval holiday" during which no more ships would be built by any power...
...Rebuttal. Chief Delegate Hugh S.. Gibson was so vexed by this Japanese hint of support to the British that he retorted sharply through the press: "The economic situation [suggested by Viscount Saito] does not arise. It happens that the Washington Treaty expressly provides that no further capital ships are to be laid down until 1931. Therefore premature discussion here of capital ships could not affect the taxpayers' burden for armaments...