THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 25, 1937.
Fascist-Democratic Conflict In Japan
NATION IN TWO CAMPS
POLITICIANS IN
STRONG POSITION
as director of the Cabinet Inquiry. The older bureaucrats inclin dealing with China lest it provoke. Bureau.
ed to aid the parties quietly and a war with Russia.
Super-Government Plan
from the sidelines. Their strength In the realm of domestic affairs, It was Mr. Yoshida who worked lies in their personal influence and the government is in no better way. out the plans creating a super-gov- in their membership of the House The whole nation resents the com- ernment of Ministers Without Port of Peers and the Privy Council. clusion of the agreement with Ger- folio, shearing the Diet of all sub- Privy Council Is Liberal
many and the secrecy of the negot- stantial power.
The Privy Council, almost against iations with Nanking The huge Mr. Yoshida was forced to resign its will, since it is supposed to be budget, with its accompanying tax because the government refused to above politics, is lined up with the increases and big bond issue is endorse these views. His future democratic movement. : Its mem-greatly resented. All Japan is rapidly falling into plans are uncertain, but he is bebers realise that Japan's true inter- Unless foreign war intervenes, one of two opposing camps and lieved to entertain the hope of beests lie in friendly cooperation with the odds-on the Japanese struggle girding for a struggle that will de coming the real power in the suc- the two great Anglo-Saxon powers are with the political parties, for termine within the next few months cessor to the Hirota Government. and in peaceful relations with both the simple reason that the military whether the Japanese Empire is to In the anti-Fascist camp the China and Soviet Russia
have failed to give the people what follow the path taken by Germany political parties must carry the Business and finance likewise they want, and the people are ful- and Italy or return to the ways of banner. They are united in their are rallying to the support of the ly conscious of this failure. the great democratic Powers. opposition to fascism and their parties because the economic views The latter was the course the championship of party government. of the Fascist group would, in ef- nation was endeavouring to follow They attack the Fascists and the fect, nationalise wealth. until its ambitious continental ad-government at every point that These are the two general group- venture was launched in 1931, with offers itself, notably on the failure ings in Japan at this moment an attack on Mukden: That date of the present foreign policy and Meanwhile, in foreign affairs, marked the eclipse of the political on the fiscal measures whose mag-Japan has never before
been so
The Strasbourg newspaper Republi- parties and parliamentary govern-itude threatens the economic and friendless and so helpless. She fears que reports that the German army is ment in Japan and the triumph of financial structure of Japan. to pursue a policy of force now into the south of Bingen
now planning extensive military works
the Japanese Army in guiding the Empire's destiny.
The convening of the Diet follow- ing the fall of the Hirota Govern- ment has brought the combat, al- ready well under way, even fur- ther into the 'open.
There has always been a contest among the three major workug forces in the Japanese political body for power under the throne. Ever since the Emperor Meij, granted the nation a Constitution, the bureaucrats, the army (coupled with the navy) and the political parties have striven among them- selves for this power.
Military Was Weakened The continental policy of the last five years had found the army in command, but the military revolt of last February weakened its hold greatly, and the conclusion of the anti-Comintern (Communist Inter- national) pact with Germany threat- ens now to destroy it completely. Added to this is the failure of the army's policy in China. By signing the pact with Germany the de mocratic-Fascist conflict was pre- cipitated.
Outstanding in the Fascist camp is the Japanese military organisa- tion, but even that is divided with- in itself. The younger
element, fiery and fanatical, would go the whole way and make of the Empire a totalitarian State. The more conservative element, which is the group actually in power, is more cautious and less positive. It does not know exactly what course to: follow.
Allied with the army in these views are the so-called younger bu- reaucrats. They correspond to the younger element in the army, but are much better informed on world conditions, on economics and on politics. Their dutstanding leader is Shigeru Yoshida (not the Japan- ese Ambassador to London of the same name), who recently resigned
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