From the word go. the tactics were new, strange, decisive. It is nothing new for Japanese Cabinets to fall while still young, for in the last nine years ten have fallen. But the way the Cabinet of Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai fell last week was unusual. Without the customary subterfuge, right before the very footlights of politics, the Army forced Yonai's resignation. Openly the Army gave its reason: the Cabinet's failure to follow the "dynamic policy" the Army advocated.
Selection of a new Premier is usually a long, mysterious, behind-the-scenes intrigue, but...
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