JAPANESE WANT PARTY GOVERNMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1940, Page 8

JAPANESE WANT PARTY GOVERNMENT.

POPULAR DEMAND. Pro-German Policy Out Of Favour. FRIENDSHIP WITH U.S. I'nttod Press Association.— Copyright. (Received 2.30 p.m.) XKW YORK, January lt». The new Premier of Japan, Admiral Yonai, will be at tucked in the Diet session on January 21, and it is impossible for his Ministry to survive, says tho Tokyo correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance. The Japanese people are slowly regaining control of the nation, preferring political party Government to domination by the militarists and 'bureaucrats. They are anxious to cast off the proUermau policy and restore the proAmerican. Saner Japanese leaders now ardently desire America'* friendship, but the question arises concerning America's response. It i« too much to say America would offer her services ae a mediator in the Sino-Japanese war, and have those services accepted, and it is not too much to say the United States may, in the next few monthe, find itself in such a position. Aβ the fatal day for the termination of the commercial treaty approaches Japan becomes morn nervous and is now making ;<n effort to avert the equivalent of ;« major catastrophe, not only to Japanoc industry, but to the. liclual pursuit of tin , w;ir in China. The Japanese; now ie;ili."o what' has always been true —that Japai.'s ritse or fall can lie predicated from the degree of its friendship for the. great AnjjloSaxon democracies, and for the L'nited State* and Canada.