Meanwhile, the Commerce Minister had been with the representatives of the Mitsui and the Mitsubishi interests, as their support was deemed for support was granted and the govern-og ment was able to shelve compulsory measures which it had threatened to take under the Electric Power Regulation Ordinance voted last year by the Diet.
"For the first time in my life, I have humbly bowed in solicitation," Mr. 'Ginjiro Fujiwara, Commerce 'Minister and powerful paper king' declared to the press. "By this gesture, I have secured full uncónditio al support of the coal ° producers, he added.
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