Quiet at Tokyo _The tragic- drama at Tokyo has moved
swiftly to an anti-climax. The attempted coup belongs already to the past and the capital today is in the old familiar throes of negotiations about the formation of a Cabinet. The mutineer-assassins surrendered to the military Governor .of Tokyo on Saturday and almost simultaneously the murdered Prime Minister, Admiral Okada, gave ocular proof that he had not been murdered after all, his brother- in-law, who resembles him, having been struck down in error in his stead. But there is no question of Admiral Okada's retaining the'Premiership. Prince Saionji, last of the Genro and traditional maker of Prime Ministers, has not looked in that direction. Unfortunately his first nominee, Prince Konoe, the President of the House or Peers, • has taken the unprecedented course of disobeying what is in effect an Imperial command. It therefor! remains entirely uncertain whether the head of the new Cabinet will be a civilian, a soldier or a sailor. That tl:e military influence will be 'dominant goes without saying, but here again the choice between the Araki faction anal the Hayashi faction remains entirely open. An article: on a later page throws considerable light on these ani other complexities of Japanese politics. * * * *
