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Transcription: [01:01:31]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
Well I really don't think that they were as strong, but I think that Kishi had gotten to the place where he was a prisoner within his own house.


[01:01:39]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
The demonstrators were going around and around the outside of his house. They were blockading the entrance to the Diet building.


[01:01:44]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
Parliamentary government was virtually at a standstill.


[01:01:47]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
And when it was impossible for him to make the normal programme of the government operating, he felt, well, maybe the safest thing is for us reluctantly to ask the President not to come at this time.


[01:01:58]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
It's very difficult for us to understand when we don't live under that kind of a new formed democracy but it seemed perfectly reasonable to the Japanese.


[01:02:08]
{Unknown Speaker 1}
When did you say this group was first organized?


[01:02:12]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
The question is, when was the group first organized?


[01:02:15]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
Do you refer to the Zengakuren, the student demonstrator group?

[01:02:20]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
I could not tell you the exact date at which it was first organized but the opposition began to be felt immediately after May 20th which was the date when Mr. Kishi summoned the majority party.


[01:02:31]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
Prior to that time, you see, what had happened was this:


[01:02:34]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
The Socialist Party tried to blockade the Diet building so that the prime minister himself and the members of the majority party couldn't get into their seats in the Diet.


[01:02:44]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
Mr. Kishi said this was paralyzing parliamentary government.


[01:02:47]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
That the only thing that he could do to establish law and order was to call in the police. He called in the police to empty the hall.


[01:02:54]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
Immediately the socialists said this is the police state. This is fascism. This is undemocratic.


[01:03:00]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
And then they began the series of demonstrations.

[01:03:04]
{Unknown Speaker 2}
We're running out of tape.

[01:03:06]
{SPEAKER name="Frank Butterworth "}
We're running out of tape, so I gotta sign off. Aloha boys in Buffalo.

[01:03:12]
{Unknown speaker 3}
This is not a question, well I don't know- [??]

[01:03:15]
{Unknown Speaker 4}
To a program chairman. I think to end it now, I think it must be very reassuring to know that we have in our club men like Frank Butterworth.

[01:03:31]
{Unknown Speaker 4}
I know that everybody listened with rapt attention to what you said, Frank.


[01:03:36]
{Unknown Speaker 4}
We thank you for bringing us these vivid pictures, word pictures of what you saw on your recent trip to Orient.

[01:03:46]
{Unknown Speaker 4}
I think you've given us all much to think about. Your suggestions for what we can do about it by making--