In addition to the ill-feeling evinced by the Peers against the Cabinet, the Seiyukai, one of the Coalition parties, is showing signs of restiveness and is refusing to pull with its Coalition team-mates. Four leaders of. the party have already tendered their resignations. These have not been accepted, but they may later have to be. This, in turn, will mean that the Seiyukai Ministers in the Coalition Cabinet. will have to resign, bringing about the inevitable fall of the Ministry. Now. that the principal issues for which the various political parties handed themselves together have been more or less achieved, old party hatreds are og: their heads. There has never been, at any time, any love lost between Japan's political parties, and Time, far from ironing our differences, has only caused controversial contrarieties.to loom larger. within the ranks of the Coalition itself, is brewing. Shrewd and veteran political observers give the Coalition another three months fat the most; some even think that the collapse will come sooner; while all agree that, with inter-party strife rife, the downfall of the Government will come. with the suddenness of a bolt from the blue.
Then will the new electorate, embracing a fourth of the population, zo to the polls, and the practical effects of Japan's big experiment in popular government d la Occidentale, be fully tested.
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