As in England, so in Japary, uns employment continues to be the Old Man of the Sea for the Cabinet. The hold, and weight of the "Old Man" is getting greater and greater and it is to Junnosuké Inouye, the Finance Minister, that Mr, Hamapuchi looks to save his official family.
Mr, Inouye has often been hailed in the past as "the finance wizard"
Japan, and at no time in. his Cistinguished career has he been faced with greater necessity to live up to. this reputation. He is credited as being abundantly en. sowed with resourcefulness, expedi~ ency and executive wisdom, and one fof his greatest triumphs' was the manner in which, as Finance Minister in the Yamamoto Ministry which was formed immediately following the earthquake of 1923, he contrived to tide the country over one of its most trying mone~ tary crises.
Mr. Inouye, ever since the termination of the world war, has been ug for national thrift and finan-retrenchment, but his voice was wilderness Japan had to face the unlented financial conditions tha, rom the 1923 earthquake, it was his level-headedness which steered the country safe from the ahbals of panic and the reefs of bankruptey that threatened. Today, it is to him that everyone in the Government party is helplessly looking for a similar fect, though the thinking admit that the condi tions to-day are worse than what they were in 1923,
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