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...factor in Japan's postwar success has been its political stability. The last election produced a voter turnout of only 68%?low for Japan. One reason was that the Liberal Democrats, who have ruled almost without a break since the occupation, looked like certain winners (and in fact won an overwhelming 300 of 486 Diet seats). The Socialists once gave promise of becoming an effective opposition, but they are still promoting a shopworn Marxism that does not sound too magnetic to Japan's increasingly affluent workers...
...undergo some minor pruning. All department heads were directed to report back within days on their savings proposals. The Democratic Congress, however, is not so vulnerable to presidential discipline. Capitol Hill is still rebelling against some Nixon austerity measures in the current budget year. Under the twin fears of voter reprisals in November and recession this year, Congress is likely to continue appropriating more money than the President cares to spend. Whatever ultimately happens with the budget, Nixon's well-publicized crusade for economies leaves the political record clear as to the identities of the spenders and the savers...
After the travel restrictions were ended, London's Financial Times headlined its editorial: THE FIRST OF THE GOODIES. Harold Wilson would undoubtedly like to hand out more, including an easing of restrictions on installment buying. Trailing the Tories by 10.5% in the latest voter preference polls, the Labor Party sorely needs good news before the next general election, which Wilson may call in the fall. A boomlet would greatly enhance Labor's chances. Economic health would help Britain when it begins its admission talks with the Common Market around midyear...
...Year have, with a new sense of truculent self-awareness, presented Nixon with a special paradox. According to Etzioni, the issues that have thrust forward his relatively conservative politics are inflation and crime. If he solves both problems, the saliency of the issues will diminish and the voter will go back to attaching more weight to the liberal issues?and may vote Democratic as a result. If Nixon does not redress inflation and cut crime, then the country may turn even more conservative?to George Wallace?particularly if the Viet Nam War is viewed as a defeat...