At_noon to-day, all members, of the Diet and Government oMeials who took part in the parliamentary Work were Prince Konoye's at luncheon, Among the bills passed by the Diet" were budgetary estimates ex-ending ¥.7,700,000,000 to be expended by. April 1, 1939, and several measures extending State control to finest every field of endeavour.
Backed by the Fighting Services, the Government succeeded in pushing through the Diet two measures fenguring state control over the elec-{rie power Industry and empowering the Government {o control the nation's entire human and material resources in time of an emergency.
Unexpectedly strong opposition to! the Power Control Bill, dubbed by its foes "a piece of Comimunist legis Intion," in the Upper House yesterday led some newspapers to forecast the possibility of the Cabinet's resignation, 'A. protracted conference of the leaders of the two Houses and mem-Bers of the Cabinet, however, resulted in a compromise acceptable to the Government—Domei,
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