JAPANESE POLITICS
NO NEED FOR TOTALITARIANISM OPINION OF PRIME MINISTER (Received 17th January, 8.0 a.m.) TOKIO. 16th January. Baron Hiranuma, Prime Minister, in an interview, declared that Japan had neither the intention nor the need to adopt totalitarianism, expressed the opinion that both totalitarianiam and individualism had long merged in the “Divine way” forming the guiding principle of Japanese politics, which Emperor Meiji declared Japanese statesmen must pursue in home and foreign affairs. Baron Hiranuma added that Japan’s political parties must have the interest*, of the Imperial Family uppermost. Accordingly the scramble for power for power's sake must be deprecated. Baron Hiranuma asked all members of Prince Konoye’s former cabinet, who resigned, to remain in office.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 January 1939, Page 5
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