In any country where parliamentary practices prevail the resignation of the Government would have been in the hands of His Majesty as soon these returns became known; the Hayashi Cabinet of Japan has) announced that it will not resign because it was not concerned in th elections (having had no party of It own), and that the parties and the people must come to view the situa tion in exactly the same light as does the Government, Of this there scant Ikelihood.
An extraordinary session of the Diet must be called within fiveimonths fof the dissolution on March 31. "The Jdate has not yet been set. Both th ancial world, which wants political possible, and the! is vening of the new Di to the Government's assertion that urgent legislation was not passed. upon at the last session, The three principal parties plan to introduce a vole of nonaconfdence, and then the Government will have to resign or risk the danger of a Jsecond dissolution and a second General Election, It is a very genuine danger, for the Japanese public will bein. no mood for such tampering with the course of normal political procedure, and, far more important, is doubtful if the Privy Council li countenance such a step.
'The attempt, fostered and abetted by the Premier, to create a new Right, wing party which would sweep the nation and then enact the Government': policies failed miserably, fas il was doomed to do. Not only are the great mass of the voters out. sympathy with such a proposed party, Politics in Japan are ordinarily' more active between than during Diet sessions, and the Government may be expected to strive to work out some plan which will permit it to retain power during this interim. There not much chance of its succeeding, but if it is forced out of office when the Diet meets or prior thereto, it
another Government of very much the same type.
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