Word: diets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diet, Japan's pretense at party-system democratic government which ever since the bloody "Young Officers' " revolution of 1932 has accomplished precisely nothing, convened in Tokyo. His Imperial Highness Emperor Hirohito read a classical rescript of welcome. Then, to everyone's surprise, 240 of the 466 members of the lower house of the Diet presented a resolution condemning the Cabinet of indecisive Premier Nobuyuki Abe, and asked it to resign. Then the Diet adjourned until...
...nervously hurried around to talk with the Emperor and the Grand Keeper of the Imperial Seals. Afterwards Wilfrid Fleisher reported: "The Cabinet apparently has decided to carry on. ... [but] it is believed that the days of the Government are numbered and its downfall is looked for before the Diet reconvenes...