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Tokyo was tense last week with citizens in ignorance of behind-the-scenes doings in the grim Oriental tug-of-war be tween Army and Party leaders which upset the Hirota Cabinet (TIME, Feb.1...
...with the people." Hamada then worked himself up to a typical Japanese nervous frenzy, screamed, "I will kill myself by hara-kiri if it can be proved that the Army and the Cabinet are not hand-in-glove!" Riotously the session adjourned. To the Imperial Palace rushed Premier Koki Hirota, advised bespectacled Emperor Hirohito to suspend Parliament for two days. But War Minister Terauchi's blood was at boiling point. He demanded that the Cabinet advise the Emperor to dissolve the Diet and order fresh elections. He relied on the fact that he and Navy Minister Admiral Osami Nagano...
...same feat with a Diet elected by more or less angry Japanese voters who knew the Army had forced dissolution. In Tokyo, however, it is almost impossible for a Cabinet to exist if either or both Army and Navy Ministers do not pull with the Cabinet, and the Hirota Cabinet resigned. This week Emperor Hirohito, after conferring with Prince Saionji, last of the Emperor's hereditary advisers, called upon Kazushige Ugaki, retired Army General and onetime Governor-General of Korea, to form a new Cabinet. Preceding this grim political struggle in Tokyo was a sudden and at first mysterious...
Japanese incredulity was based on years of painful experience in which it nearly always turns out that Chinese outsmart Japanese until the sons of Nippon bring up overwhelming force. Premier Koki Hirota of Japan has just had his Cabinet publicly spanked by the Privy Council for having baited Stalin and made a pact with Hitler (TIME. Dec. 7). Last week Mr. Hirota was able to advise the Son of Heaven that in China events were transpiring which could only mean that the Japanese Cabinet had been right and the Privy Council wrong. Nearly all Japanese were entirely convinced that what...
Japanese Army circles, close to Premier Koki Hirota and firmly antiCommunist, cracked the whip last week and civilian leaders of both great Japanese political parties expressed warm approval of the Hitler Crusade. Ready were Army zealots to smash any Japanese of consequence who disagreed, but they did not bother last week about certain notes of caution sounded by large Tokyo newspapers with Big Business connections. Of these Nichi Nichi, the boldest, said: "We heartily welcome friendship with Germany, but we feel as though we are running after a fly with a hatchet if the agreement is aimed only against...