When, following General Ugaki's dramatic report to the Throne. that hho had falled to form a Cabinet, because checkmated by the Army, "the Amy which T have, loved for so many years" and "the change "in which 15 deplorable," as he wrote in a letter banned from publication in Japan, the Imperial choice fell of Gen, Senjuro Hayashi, it was thought that the extremists had lost control this same unpublished letter General Ugaki had frankly stated that the Empire stood at the cross roads of a choice between Constitutionalism and Fascism, and it was recognized that this choice had been postponed for the time being, that no' decision was to be made, that a mid~ die course had been preferred and that hence the moderate Hayashi had
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