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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Tetsu Katayama, Japan's first Christian Premier under the new democratic constitution, was invested in office by Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo on Saturday. General MacArthur praised him as a symbol of democratic hope in the Orient.
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TOKYO. (AP)—Tetsu Katayama, Japanese Socialist party leader and his nation's first Premier under its democratic constitution, was invested in office by Emperor Hirohito at the Imperial palace Saturday afternoon.
Outgoing Premier: Shigeru Yoshida, speaker: of the House of Representatives Komakichi Matsuoka, and Speaker of the House of Councillors Tsueno Matsuidara witnessed the ceremony.
General MacArthur earlier praised Katayama as Japan's first "Christian leader" and saw rising in the Orient "hope for the ultimate erection of an invincible spiritual barrier" to ideologies hostile to democracy.
The supreme commander issued a statement on Katayama's overwhelming election by the Diet yesterday. Katayama, a life-long Presbyterian, likewise is the first Premier elected by the Diet under the new constitution.
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Tokyo
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Saturday Afternoon
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katayama invested as first premier under new constitution; first christian leader elected by diet.
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Tetsu Katayama, Japanese Socialist party leader, was invested as Premier by Emperor Hirohito at the Imperial Palace on Saturday afternoon, witnessed by Shigeru Yoshida, Komakichi Matsuoka, and Tsueno Matsuidara. General MacArthur praised Katayama as Japan's first Christian leader and issued a statement on his election by the Diet yesterday. Katayama is a life-long Presbyterian.