Evening star., 1960-07-14
Fonotic Stobs Kishi, Plans Go Ahead
To Elect Ikedo Prime Minister
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Liberal Democratic Party and
chief of the government.
Coincidentally, thousands Of
Communicated demonstrators
took to the streets shouting
opposition to Mr.. Ikeda.
Plans for this demonstration,
avowedly against "a pseudo
Kishi cabinet" were an
nounced weeks ago after the
Prime Minister disclosed he
would quit.
Police estimated $4,000 per-
sons marched in the columns
that, 8 or 10 abreast, filed for
8 hours past Parliament and
the Prime Minister'S official
residence. Newsnnen agreed
there were at least $4,000.
The leftist-led council against
the United States-Japan Sc
curity treaty which went into
effect last month claimed a
turnout of 10000.
At the head of the column
was a Communist banner read
ing american forces get out
of Japan" A party sound truck
playing "The Internationale"
brought up the rear.
Doctors said Mr.. Kishi would
be out of the hospital in 10
days, and his ruling Liberal
Democratic Party went ahead
with plans to accept his resig-
nation and elect Mr.. Ikeda
Prime Minister tomorrow. =
Mr.. Kishi was attacked at the
Prime Minister'S official resi-
dence as he drank "banzai"
champagne toasts with party
leaders in celebration of Mr..
Ikeda's election earlier today to
succeed him as party president.
The party election was a pre-
hminary to the government
change which Mr.. Kishi had
promised after the controversial
United States Japan military
treaty took effect last month.
Bleeding profusely, Mr.. Kishi
was rushed to a nearby hospi-
tai. A secretary said he was
cracking jokes with visitors
within an hour. One of his doc
tors said neither the artery nor
the Sciatic nerve were hit.
Terrorism Feared
The attack on Mr.. Kishi oc-
CURED just a month after an
other rightist stabbed and in
jured a prominent socialist,
Jotaro Kawakami, near the
Parliament Building. The two
attacks aroused fears that
Japan is in for a revival of the
prewar terrorism in which the
notorious rightist BLACK Drag.
on" society played a leading
role.
Mr.. Kishi is the fourth Jap
anese Prime Minister of the
goth century to be terrorist
victim. The others were
Takashi Hara, fatally stabbed I
in 1921; Yuko Harmaguchi,
wounded in 1880, and Tsuyoshi
Inukai, assasSinated by re-
bellious army officers in 1892.
Although the Liberal-Demo-
Gratis still planned to make the
government change tomorrow,
there was a possibility the So
cialiSt minority in the lower
house of the Diet (parliament) |
might try some delaying tactic.
Foiled in their attempt to block
the United States-Japan secu- /
rity treaty, the Socialists and
other leftists lately have been
railing against Mr.. Ikeda.
The Socialists cannot prevent
Mr.. Ikeda's election ultimately,
however, since the Liberal
Democrats have a 105-seat ma
jority in the lower house.
Mr.. Ikeda, 81, was elected to
the Liberal-Democratic presi-
dency on the second ballot of
a party convention. The vote
was t302-i94, with 71-year-old
Mitsujiro Ishi, chairman of the
party's executive board, the
lower. The party president
traditionally becomes Prime
Minister.
Mr.. Ikeda, a protege of for
mer Prime Minister Shigeru
Yoshida, after his elected
pledged to restore Japan's in
ternational prestige, damaged
by the lefist riots which forced
cancellation of President Ell
senhower's visit.
Fav0rs United States Ties
Mr.. Ikeda is an advocate of
continued close ties with the
United States and also re-
opening of trade with Red
China. He administered the
United States occupations un-
popular anti-inflation policy
and is known as a tough-mind-
ed financial expert and admin
istrator.
In his fight to succeed Mr..
Kishi, he was supported by the
country's leading industrial and
commercial interests but was
opposed by many professional
politicians inside his own party
who describe him as a human
adding machine" brusquelyI
frank and tactless.
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