The Privy Council has clashed with the Government before this, and in past years it has wrecked more than tone Cabinet, It has the power to do 's0 again and will not hesitate to use that power if It believes it to be best for the Empire. The conclusion of the AntiCominiern Agreement. with Germany was. bitterly opposed by some of the Counelliors, but they were in a minority and Anally the Council approved it, whereafler it received the Imperial sanction.
The Hayashi Ministry's plan to create a Planning Board which would, effect, be a General Staff to run the Government, has aroused the ire lof the Councillors on Constitutional grounds, and already the Cabinet has! yielded on the point of whence funds, {for the Board will come. It may have fo abandon the whole scheme, The 'Council tke wise frowns "upon the' Jorganization of a Propaganda Bureau modelled on the Berlin Propaganda Ministry as being the "exercise of [dogmatic bureaucracy." Rumours and.
statement from the Home Minister Jon revision of the Election Law have Jcaused the Council to be on the alert this connection,
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