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...letter was as barren of endearments as the salutation. Shigeru Yoshida's Government, it said, had better take prompt steps to tighten Japan's economy and wipe out its black markets, or it could expect no help from the Allies...
...Japanese Government to get rid of the Control Association system which perpetuated zaibatsu (big business) domination of the economy but had not been able to raise Japan's production above one-third of the 1930 level. Last week when, in the face of impending economic disaster, the rubbery Yoshida Government again evaded the Control Association issue, MacArthur even threatened to seek advice from the four-power Allied Control Council...
...intervening on Feb. 1 to prevent a scheduled Tokyo general strike, SCAP (Supreme Command, Allied Powers) probably saved the conservative Yoshida Government (the strike's real target), but it also pushed labor toward the left-and persuaded many unionists that MacArthur had developed a filicidal anti-union bent. Since then, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's failure to curb inflation has increased tension, and has confronted SCAP with a set of unattractive alternatives: 1) to abandon all strike control and risk governmental and production collapse; 2) to take over immediately full economic direction of Japan, thus puppetizing the government...
...provisions renouncing war and abolishing a Japanese army, navy and air force. Their reason: if Japan had no arms, the U.N. might never accept her as a member because she could not execute her obligation to contribute to the world police force. Said Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida: "The question of the renunciation of war is one that might be taken up after the Peace Conference...
Observers predicted that Yoshida would need more shots of MacArthurian adrenalin if he was to survive in spite of his lack of tact. Sample: some time ago he invited two U.S. correspondents of Irish descent to dinner in an effort to enlist their help in mitigating occupation directives-which, said he, "as you Irishmen can understand, are too oppressive for the proud to bear...