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...Britain's touring Laborites visited the strikers, hailed their "epochmaking fight," indicated firmly that however hopeful they might feel about coexistence with China, there could be none with Japan if the Japanese reverted to a prewar policy of sweated labor and "cheap goods." The conservative government of Premier Yoshida took alarm...
Petrifaction & Differences. In Tokyo, where he was shunned by Premier Yoshida and welcomed with open arms by the opposition Socialists, Nye Bevan agreed with his party chief that China's Communists seemed far more relaxed than those in Russia, who all "seemed petrified with fear in the presence of Malenkov." He called again for "peaceful coexistence between the nations of the world" and sought to torpedo the SEATO conference in Manila. Somewhat irrelevantly, he added: "There are ideological differences between Communism and Socialism, just as there are between Socialism and the United States, but we do not believe these...
Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government, of course, would like to have a large loan to tide it over, but Washington feels that pouring in money will induce another period of Japanese inertia. Washington favors more belt-tightening, more austerity, and possibly devaluation. Japanese businessmen are screaming that the amount of austerity already decreed and enforced by Yoshida is producing deflation and unemployment...
...police bill had already passed the lower house, and Yoshida had the votes to pass it in the upper house as well; but before that could happen, the lower house had to vote a two-day extension of the Diet session. To prevent this, a posse of Socialist members corralled Speaker Yasujiro Tsutsumi in a corner of the chamber, thus kept him from ascending to the chair. A beefy judo expert, Tsutsumi broke through the Socialist ranks and sought refuge in a caucus room...
When the police finally stopped the fighting, some 50 persons (including 24 cops) had been injured by punches, kicks, scratches, bites, falls, or blows inflicted by undetermined objects. Next day Shigeru Yoshida called on Emperor Hirohito to apologize for the obloquy that Japanese legislators had brought on their country. In the Diet, the upper house passed the police bill by standing vote, the Socialists abstaining...