There have been persistent tume jours that a certain amount coolness exists between the Premice from Mr. Inouyé's conviction that what the country needs at th present juncture is a "Busi men's Cabinet." Premier puchi, on the other hand, is ju convinced that his policy of drastic retrenchment and stern thrift will, in the end, win through, and has appealed to his Finance Minister te remain loyal. Government circles, however, deny that there is the slightest rift. between members of the Cabinet or any disharmony, and attributes all these reports ious propaganda" by the Opposition, The Opposition is frankly scene tical of Premier Hamaguchi's fnan-I policies. What is wanted, these a courageous "positive" policy, instead of the "supine and Inckadaisaical policy the Ministry is wedded to." Your correspondent yesterday had an interesting and Significant talk with one of the chief whips of the Seiyukai (prin" cipal Opposition) party, who said that he was certain that the days of the Hamaguchi Cabinet were numbered and that it would coll before the end of the year. He drew a frightful picture of the rate at which unemployment, despair and discontent are increasing and Said that people are committing suicide out of sheer despair over the Government's financial policy.
"There are the germs of grave possibilities in all this," he proceed~ fed, Mand the, signs are increasing: ofa law-breaking spirit, The wave of lawlessness sweeping the land, rot merely the written laws, has 2 political and. economic basis well'as a criminal one, and dreams of fanatics find ready. credence if the lawlessness has its genesis in
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