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...years since Japan regained her sovereignty. For the first time in the Diet's 64-year history, Tokyo's metropolitan police were called to restore order. In the eye of the storm, yet seemingly untouched by it, was astute, crusty and supremely confident Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, 75, whose friends and admirers call him the ablest and most important figure in today's Japan, and whose foes call him a "shameless dictator...
...Yoshida had been scheduled to leave Japan last week for the U.S., seeking "loans and investments" to aid the nation's hard-pressed economy. At the last minute, because of the riot in the Diet, Yoshida had to cancel all plans, postponed his trip for several weeks, perhaps months...
...Work All Night." Yoshida's conservative coalition (his own Liberals and Mamoru Shigemitsu's Progressives) easily musters a majority, a fact which drives his Socialist opposition into foaming rages. At lunch one day last week, Yoshida had more than his usual two Martinis. Afterward in the Diet, the sleepy-lidded Prime Minister appeared to doze. "Aha!" cried a Socialist. "We work all night on important legislation and the Prime Minister gets drunk and passes out in the Diet...
Bills providing for Japanese rearmament with U.S. aid (opposed by the left-wingers) had been passed. Yoshida wanted one more piece of legislation disposed of: a bill to abolish local police forces in favor of a national force organized by prefects. Opponents argued that this would bring back the prewar totalitarian character of Japan's police. Yoshida's Liberals replied that the country could not afford overlapping police forces, and that there was no danger that a national force would become oppressive, since it would be supervised by a civilian commission...
...vote of 245 to 148, the Diet turned aside the Socialist maneuver. Premier Yoshida continued his packing, is due in the U.S. June 5 for ten days. It will be the first official visit of a Japanese Premier...