Both men refused, and General ayashl faced a reconvened Diet s0 clitterly hostile to him that there was little chance of anything being accomplished other than the passing of the Budget with some minor alerations, The parties, quite as much the Premier, recognized the necessity of enacting the largest Budget the Empire has ever known, put once that was done the quarrel-Ting became so bitter that the Pre-miler requested and received order for dissolution and the calling of a General Election.
The outcome of that election Is well-known. Although without a party and with no candidates in the field (the Premier carly abandoned hig attempts to form a new Right wing Government-supporting polltlcal party), the Hayashi Cabinet wi given a. Humillating defeat at the polls. The whole motion knew It, ud so did the Premier, yet he tenaclously clung to office and announced that ho would not resign, Resignation was, however, inevitable, Not the mass of the people Hayashi regime, but some of those "unseen forees" which are #0 powerful in Japan likewise Bogan to undermine his position. Apparently realizing this, the Premier east about to find some' successor who could bring harmony to Japan where he thad failed, and of all men able to do this Prince Konoye was _un+
Althoujgh young as statesmen so in Japan, he was President of the House of Peers, had an unblemished record, feame from a family which commanded the respect of the whole people he did himself in a personal way. and had no "entangling alliances. That 1s, he could go into the arnee which he hed previously refused at Toast twice without being bound to any group or any particular school of politico) thought,
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