DICTATOR'S POWERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1945, Page 5

DICTATOR'S POWERS

ASKED BY, TOKIO REGIME

NEW YORK, June 10

Tokio radio announced that the Government had introduced an unprecedented and epoch-making: Bill asking the Diet to transfer to the Government virtually all rights and powers to deal with production or transport shortages.

In a brief Imperial Rescript, Hirohito called on the people to fulfil the purpose of a holy war. The Diet was forced to extend its special sitting for an extra day to enable the heated debate on the new emergency powers Bill to be fully discussed. The Bill will give the Government control of the vital war industries.

The United Press says Emperor Hirohito personally opened the Diet session for the first time in this war. According to Tokio radio, Admiral Suzuki told the Diet today that the enemy's boasts about, unconditional surrender for Japan would mean outright death for all 100,000,000 of the population. There was no alternative but to fight. "We' will crush the invaders of our homeland by concentrating great armies with easy and swift supplies," Suzuki said. "Meanwhile, Japan eagerly desires the further promotion of friendly relations with neutral Powers." The "New York Times" published the full text of Admiral Suzuki's speech to the Diet, in which he said that there, was no one in the entire world more deeply concerned with world peace than the Japanese Emperor. THe brutal, inhuman acts of both Britain and the United States aimed at making it impossible for the Japanese to follow their national policy, which was based on justice and righteousness^ he said. This meant that Japan was fighting a war to uphold the principle of human justice. Therefore they must fight to the last. Admiral Suzuki three times stated his conviction that "we must fight to the last,"