Emperor Hirohito's signing of the Kellogg Treaty (see above) had grave and unexpected results last week. Almost without warning it was announced that the Conservative Cabinet of Baron Giichi Tanaka would resign.
The Kellogg Treaty concludes with the seemingly harmless statement that it is signed by the rulers of the various nations "in the name of their respective peoples." Though Japan is a constitutional monarchy, yearly growing more democratic, nowhere are royal prerogatives more jealously guarded. According to the Japanese Constitution the Emperor, Son of...
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