Oldal 4 [4]
OCR
- page four s The second METSZÁRÁSB is the one of the political structure of the country. The Americans, who have run the country since 1945, have trie a to impose on it democrecy, its own ideas, and of elimi= nating the paremount position of the Emperor, Outwardly they have - succeeded, and this is not the least claim of Mac Arthur to fane in his country. On the other hand anyone knowing the country will confirm, that inwardly the snecess has been denied to then, The present parliamentary regime is a comvlete failure, SIUC y Premier Shiceru Yoshida hac a fine governement and wide support in parlia= ment, But his position with the peorle, too, is only one or tempos rery toleration, He is, for the masses, only the relative best anong a choice of evils, In fact parliamentatianism has become identified for the mim in the stwect with corruption, sufi -erings, loss of face and defeat, Pariianenterin is the regime of the winner, They will pray it as long as the winner is the more powerful, They do it still because the “Americans are theres But, fundementaliy, it is Now clear that the minute American prestige falis a little more, ‘ or Anerican tutelace is going, the outward veneer of Westemized World is bound to 304 The right ofwomen, free elections, party= ~ politics, all this is carried on as burden, not as privileze, It should be erearly understood, ot “the present regime is only a very temporary thing in Japan, That Democracy thimmimis not sons to stay, That anyone who would ee to base a policy on a er Democracy would bé building on shifting sands, In the light of these facts, it is clear that in the very near future - a few years hence = Japan will have to make a decisive choice : return to her old traditions or Communism, There us Ro altematives “fe traditional forces are still the greater power todays fhe Americans, in their lack of understanding, tried to undermine - the ‘two basic pillars of dapanese lite : the iImperor and religiony They stripped the Mmperor of most of his pierogatives and often tried to hold him up to ridicules sare deprived the traditional faith of its rights, Dut while they did “th y were. far from successtul with the ponulation, Emperor Hi: mene z 38 still deeply revereds He is loved and admirec by his apt eng, loved | especially for the reat disnity wit th which he carrie the ‘insults and indit mities of he past years, He is today u strong n@tional figure, whose advise eti and example are generally. followed, As to faith it has [5 Sug pectin ever increasing stren, othe This is aes. a den he ‘bo Chris ignitye tue free his religiou a é wareeri- 8 AES these . men executed by the Victosious EH hot eneerotand tnat it is not so much their life which is a adie Mi sale before all A fc § ; “A 2 Wh oe ee
