Hayashi Cabinet Blandly Ignores People's Mandate Privy Council's Negating Power Frost Our Ov Consronent Tokyo, May 4.
Plainly and unmistakably told the "Japanese people through the medium of the ballot box that they were distrusted and not wanted at {the head of national affairs, the mem= bers of the Hayashi Government are Dlandly ignoring the will and. wishes of the people whom they govern, but continue to. talk of "Constitutional Politics peculiar to Japan" and of the failure of the political parties to un= derstand the "emergency situation" in which Japan finds itself. Tu other Words, less than a dozen men support fed by a more handful of MP2 and by the extreme Right wing of thought both in and out of the Army assert "that they and they alone know what {gest for. the Empire, that they intend doggedly to. pursue thole resent course and that parties and Duublie must fall in tine oF suffer "The immediate post-election situa ton, in Japan was aptly described by the "Japan Times" as:
Jout mo man capable of creating one was or is as yet willing to assume this task, nor could it possibly be done In the short 20-day election campaigns of Japan, Prince' Konoye, president of. the House of Peers, is said to have refused. "Why should Prince Konoye, who has twice declined the Premiership and who still has a brilliant future ahead of him while but in his forties, risk that future by embark-Ing upon so precarious an experiment? {eformer Premier Hirota was offered the task, he also declined it. The one man who might have been able to ulld up, a party which, not, in this Jelection but perhaps ina later one, might be victorious was not even approached so for as is known. That man is Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, president of the South Manchuria' Ral way Ca. It Is probable that he would have refused if he had been offered is
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.