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Discord in Tokyo. Not everyone thought the problem so simple. For the next two days before the Diet, the opposition hammered at Hatoyama's Foreign Minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, demanding that he clarify the Premier's offhand statement. Shigemitsu, who signed the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri and was afterwards purged, had been reassuring everybody that "Japan's place" lay within the U.S. alliance. Now he hedged. "The problem must be studied from the viewpoint of treaty conditions and actual reality," he said. "Japan has recognized the Formosa government. But the appearance on the mainland of a large...
...tongued diplomacy," cried a supporter of ex-Premier Yoshida. "To the world, Shigemitsu professes antiCommunism. At home, he talks of coexistence." Shigemitsu denied the taunt, but the opposition catcalled "Liar! Liar!" Finally, Premier Hatoyama had to put himself once more on record, this time more guardedly: "On whether I intend to recognize Red China or not, I would like to point out that there are many factors involved, and I cannot say when...
...developing in Japan: not India's plague-on-both-your-houses style, but a let's-get-the-best-of-both-worlds neutralism. The Communists reacted with delighted promptness. "The U.S.S.R. has always been desirous of establishing and developing relations," announced Vyacheslav Molotov. Hinting disguisedly that Shigemitsu might perhaps care to amend Japan's relations with the U.S., Molotov proposed that Russia and Japan "normalize relations . . . in accordance with the interests of both sides." All in all, said Molotov, "the Soviet government takes a positive attitude...
...support, promising to convene general elections (in which the Socialists are expected to make considerable gains) before the end of March. So Hatoyama can run little more than a caretaker government. At best, for several critical months there can be no real stability in Japan. At worst. Hatoyama and Shigemitsu may set Japan moving farther and farther from Yoshida's pro-Americanism, more and more towards neutralism...
...Behind him (with crutches), Foreign Minister Shigemitsu...