CRISIS THREATENED
JAPANESE CABINET Tokio. Nov. 30. Threat of a Cabinet crisis, which might bring about the downfall of the Government, appeared as the Japanese press unanimously and violently attacked the address to the Diet of the Prime Minister, Baron Shidehara. “Mainichi Shimbun” declared: “If the Cabinet cannot have an acute sense of its responsibilities on the ground that it is merely an interim Government (until the general elections), then we want the Government to leave the, scene as quickly as possible.” “Yomiuri! Hochi” linked Baron Shidehara indirectly with the military Zaibatsu, and other newspapers made the charge that the Cabinet was powerless to work out reforms independently and was acting simply as a rubber stamp for General Mac Arthur’s directives. Meanwhile the Liberal Party leader, Ichiro Hatoyama, told the Diet that the Emperor system must be retained as a bulwark against possible dictatorship. Baron Shidehara voiced agreement.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 1 December 1945, Page 4
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