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JAPANESE CRISIS Demand For Electoral Reform CABINET ULTIMATUM By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copj’right. (Received April 1, 12.49 a.m.) Tokio, March 31. A Cabinet communique explains that the dissolution of the Diet was due to the present Parliament lacking sincerity and having obstructed many measures vital to defence and the preservation of the livelihood of the people. “It failed to-appreciate the critical nature of the situation,'* the communique continues, “and a dissolution was necessary to awaken the nation’s conscience.” It appears that the crisis arose suddenly yesterday. The Minseito and Seiytikai parties were holding up Bills in order to force electoral reform of the Lower House. They refused to heed Cabinet’s warning, whereupon the Prime Minister, General Hayashi, went to the Imperial Palace and obtained a dissolution, which army influences have long advocated in the hope tfhat a new National Party sympathetic to its programme will sweep the country.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 15
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