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Across this comparative calm the stain of scandal suddenly spread last week. Renegades of the majority Seiyukai party rose to link Minister of Education Ichiro Hatoyama and Railways Minister Chuzo Mitsuchi with the recent significant merger of all Japanese steel works. They charged that the steel companies had cash-bribed Ministers Hatoyama & Mitsuchi and 130 Representatives. Furious voices screamed back & forth in the Diet, named Hatoyama with menacing frequency. True or false, the scandal was of the kind that traditionally makes Cabinets reach for their hats. Premier Saito was ready to "release" Hatoyama, hoped against hope that that would...
Ridden roughshod by Army and Navy leaders since the occupation of Manchukuo, Japan's political leaders have been casting desperately about for some means of regaining their lost power. Recently the two great political parties Seiyukai and Minseito-normally as friendly as cats and dogs-made overtures to each other and were working feverishly last week to achieve union and strength against the men of the sword...
...Finish! Finish!" Dramatically, two days later, the Tokyo government was interpellated on Count Uchida's speech by Deputy Hitoshi Ashida. a seasoned diplomat and often spokesman on foreign affairs for the Seiyukai Party, largest in the Diet...
...Cabinet of saké-drinking Reijiro Wakatsuki) who years ago won the nickname of Senkyo no Kamisama or "God of Elections" by his skill in managing the outcome of local elections. Thirteen months ago the God of Elections resigned from the Minseito to avoid expulsion after dickering with the Seiyukai Party to form a Coalition Cabinet. Japanese Fascism, the Kokumin Domei or National League, is his latest idea. Its flag: a golden eagle on a light brown background. Its uniform: black belted jacket, striped trousers, military cap. Its program: replacement of the Cabinet by a dictatorial council, government control...
...observers admitted that it sounded very much like the ideas that used to emerge from the Oyster Bay rocking chair during the early years of the century), it was carried one step further last week by swart, smiling mustachioed Kaku Mori, leader of the younger faction of the chauvinistic Seiyukai Party. Mr. Mori is not now a Cabinet member. He could and did speak so freely to the Diet that a frightened cable censor hastily mangled the last part of his address while it was being sent...