Speaker after speaker from both major and minor parties has _mer-lessly failed the Army, and the War Office has become panicky. As result, none can predict what it may do" It is at last awake to the fact that the great tide of public opinion has welled up against the Army, and that anti-military feeling. in the country is growing from day to day. It Is growing even within the non-ameer ranks of the Army, itself.
'The Army would recart to any' feasible measure {o stop these attacks, but a dissolution and General Elec: tion is no solution. 'That' would merely mean that for the next 30 days the most experienced orators the nation would speak from end to end of the Islands against the Army. "Their denunciations would be carried from the floors of the Diet into the cottages of farmers and. the tenements of factory districts, The Army faces such a possibility with "consternation, and so it will hot secure dissolution (as it probably could) unless its own panic gets the better of such judgment as it retains.
The two major parties, too, have solved In large measure the question of financing a General Election earn paign. Their leaders have struck a temporary coalition for this emergency should it arise. They would divide the Empire between them in roughly the same proportion as their present membership in the Lower House, and Minseito candidate would of oppose Seiyukai in most electoral districts. This would leave only the Poorly" financed Shakal" Talshuto (Labour party) and independent candidates to defeat, plus whatever candidates the Army-Government might put into the eld.
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