Tokyo, Mar, 6.
Government circles "to-day ' continued to maintain silence regarding. the ten-point questionnaire submitted to the Cabinet a week ago by Mr. Yukio Ozakd, veteran member of the Diet and foremost champion of the parliamentary cause which she has served uninterruptedly for 47 years.
The document, published last, Sunday in the Tokyo "Nichi-Nichi,* lon regarded a vehicle of Mr. Ozaki's views, created a sensation in political circles because of passages consti lly criticizing the Army and di manding from the "Government clear explanation of the Cabinet crisis, Assulling Prince Kimmochi Saion}i, last of the "elder statesmen" or monro, for an alleged. blunder in agalsting the Emperor through the Cabinet crisis, Mr. Ozaki had manded. the abolition of the extraconstitutional and extra-legal genro system which he described as a relic of, the days of clan polities.
instead, the veteran parliamentarian, advocated the creation of a system whereby the Emperor would exert his prerogative as sovereign in appointing a Premier.
Mr, Ozakd bluntly alleged that the Premier-designate, Gen. Kazushige Ugaki, felted to form a Cabinet to succeed the Hirota Government because of the Army's interference in polities in violation of the Constitution and of the army's own criminal code, Ho also demanded a elarification' of the "hidden reasons' which led the Army to oppose Gen, Ugaki for: Premier.—Domel,
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