JAPANESE CABINET
PEOPLE REGAINING CONTROL
NEW YORK, January 16.
The Tokio correspondent of the North American News Agancy says the new Premier, Admiral Yonai, will'be attacked in the session of the Diet on January 21, and it is impossible for his Ministry to survive.
The Japanese people are slowly regaining control of. the nation, preferring political party government to the domination of militarists and bureaucrats, and they are, most anxious to cast off the pro-German and restore the pro-American policy. The saner Japanese leaders now. ; ardently desire America's friendship, but a question arises concerning America's; response.
It is too much to say that America would offer her services as mediator in the Sino-Japanese struggle and have those services accepted, but not too much to say that the United, States may in the next few months .find itself in such a position. As the fateful day of the termination of the commercial treaty approaches Japan is becoming more nervous, and is now making efforts to avert the equivalent of a major catastrophe, not only to Japanese industry, but to the actual pursuit of the war in China. The Japanese now realise what has always been true; Japans rise or fall is predicated by the degree of her friendship with the great Anglo-Saxon democracies, Britain and America. - " _'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 10
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