'The Opposition parties maintain that the Cabinet erred grievously'
recommending the Korean prisone: to mercy, declaring that such a erime—plotting against the lives of members of the Imperial Family—was an uncondonable one and could only be adequately punished'with death, Whatever the merits of "the argument, the tangible result position parties this issue, and it may be taken for granted that the Opposition will combine against the Government, The result seems obvious. The combined Opposition is far and away superior, numerically, to the Government's "adherents and the Government is faced with either re~ signation or dissolution of the Diet and a general election. One of these two alternatives. is. inevitable unless some unforeseen event pre cludes the possibility of the two Opposition parties forgetting their past quarrels and presenting a united front, 'The Government, according to re-porta current, has' resolved to con-Vene the next session of the Diet, Which means that it will refuse to resign, At the same time; reports current in higher political circles state that the Government will at~ tond Parliament prepared to dissolve the Diet as soon as evident that any motion, if the vote, will result in a Ministerial defeat. ' In order to do this, the Premier will come armed with an Imperial Rescript ordering dissolution, will have this all the time {in his. pocket and, at the psycho-Togieal moment, will announce a message from the Throne and read the Rezeript. This has been done on more than one occasion before,
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