THREAT OF CRISIS
THE JAPANESE CABINET VIOLENT PRESS ATTACK (Rec. 11.15 p.m.) TOKIO, Nov. 30. : The threat of a Cabinet crisis which might bring about the downfall of the Government appeared as the Japanese press unanimously and violently attacked Baron Shidehara’s address to the Diet. The newspaper Mainichi declared: “If the Cabinet cannot have an acute sense of 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.” The newspaper Yomiuri Hochi linked Shiuthara 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 MacArthur’s directives. In the meantime, the Liberal Party leader, Mr Ichiro Hatoyama, told the Diet that the Emperor system must be retained as a bulwark against a possible dictatorship. Shidehara Voiced his agreement. i
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26015, 1 December 1945, Page 7
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