JAPAN'S NEW PREMIER
AS DESCRIBED BY HIS PREDECESSOR, 6 The Marftuis Okuma was interviewed at his Waseda residenoe in Tokio by a reporter of the "Japan Advertiser" on October 12, after his Ministerial fall of eight days before, and incidentally voiced his opinion of the new Premier, Count Terauchi: "I do not think that Count Terauchi will give Japan the militaristic rule that is expected of him. Even if he should try the nation will not let him. We are a civilised nation, and constitutional Tights have been granted ns by Hia Majesty. Anything conflicting with our constitutional rights will not succeed. Personally, I think that Count Terauchi is a very gentle man; a man vrlioni children might love. He is not a disciple of the Kaiser, nor a man to be feared in the way that foreigners fear him. There appears to be apprehension abroad lest he stretch out his strong hand in China and repeat what he did in Korea, • There is no need for such fear. True, Japan can take China, and the whole of China, if ehe chooses. But why should she? What could we do with China if we did take her? She would do us no eood.''
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3052, 13 April 1917, Page 8
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203JAPAN'S NEW PREMIER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3052, 13 April 1917, Page 8
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