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Lesson for the West: The Japanese Elections
Ball, W. MacmaIon | March 19, 1955 issue

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Hatoyama had won an over whelming vote in Tokyo's First District, was the acknowledged leader of the conservative majority and, therefore would have become prime minister of Japan in a few days. The Allied Council of Japan had his record placed before it and quickly reached the decision that Hatoyama was not suitable to sit in parliament, much less to become prime minister. The election gives clear notice to the world that henceforth Japan is resolved to struggle for the right to make its own foreign policy. To expect Japan to be a trusted armed ally of the West is to defy economic and geographical realities. Japan simply cannot afford to align itself firmly either with the Communists or the Western bloc.

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PRIME ministers -- Election; INTERNATIONAL relations; ELECTIONS; COMMUNISTS; WESTERN countries; JAPAN
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