大日本帝国の崩壊 / Collapse of Great Japanese Empire No1３

公職追放令 / The Purge Directive by GHQ

１０）敗戦直後の日本は、連合国軍総司令部の定めたプレスコードにより、完全なる言論統制が敷かれたから、占領軍の批判は一切できなくなった。

その上に民生局からの命令によって、国家の中枢で活躍していた20万人以上の人々が、戦争協力者の汚名を着せられ職場を追われた。

俗に言われる公職追放令を実施したのです。

１１）1946年1月4日・連合国軍総司令部は、この月に予定されていた選挙の延期を命じた。

そして、米国に不都合な軍人、政治家、財閥関係者、マスコミなどの責任者を順次に公職から追放したのです。

第一政党だった進歩党などは、 結党当時２７４名いた候補を１４名に減らされ、残り２６０名すべてを追放された。

１2）ＧＨＱ民生局は左翼系政党を望んでいたが、当時日本人の政治観は自由民権や大正デモクラシーの伝統を受け継いでいた。

大多数の国民は奇抜な左翼系ではなく、保守本流の流れを汲む自由党の鳩山一郎などを支持していたから、全く強制的な首切りでありました。

国民の意志とはほど遠いものだったのである。今の政権に良く似ております。

１３）また、当時の日本国民に取って不幸なことは、強力な社会民主主義勢力が弱かった事と、指導者層が最も困惑したのは追放基準の曖昧さだった。

表向きの追放審査は日本人が行ったが、実権は勿論ＧＨＱ民生局が握ると云う二重構造であり、なかなか意見の一致をみる事はあり得なかったのです。

１4）こうした状況の中で鳩山一郎氏は、昂然と反共を宣言し保守の結集を呼びかけ民生局の逆鱗に触れてしまう。

ＧＨＱ民生局は戦時中に鳩山が主張した演説原稿を関係者に配布し、外国人記者会見を開いてまで鳩山氏を吊るし上げた。

然し、民意は鳩山氏と自由党を第一党に押し上げてしまったのだった。

１０）Because complete censorship was established in Japan just after the defeat by the press code that the alliance national military general headquarters established, it was not possible for the criticism of the occupation army at all. It was helped the top put on the disgrace of the war cooperator the people who were higher than 200,000 people who played an active part by order in the national center from the public welfare station and was chased the workplace.

I carried out the Purge Directive to be said commonly.

１１）January 4, 1946, the alliance national military general headquarters gave it an order for postponement of election planned in this month.

And I expelled the people in charge such as the officer who was inconvenient for the United States, a politician, a person concerned with financial combine, media sequentially from the public office.

It was reduced the candidate who had 274 people at the time o the formation of a party to 14 people, and the Progressive Party which was the first political party was ousted from all 260 remainder.

１２）The GHQ public welfare station overlooked the political party affiliated with left-winger, but the Japanese politics inherited a tradition of the free human rights and Taisho democracy in those days.

Because the majority of nations supported Ichiro Hatoyama of the Liberal Party which descended from the main group of a conservative party not original left-winger system, it was an at all forced discharge, and the will of the nation was a far thing.

１３）In addition, it was vagueness of the exile standard that I took it to a then Japanese citizen, and the social democracy power that the unhappy thing was strong having been weak and the class of leaders were at a loss most.

A Japanese performed the official exile examination, but it was dual structure to say when the GHQ public welfare station held it not to mention real power, and it was impossible to readily watch concord.

１４）Ichiro Hatoyama calls for the concentration of the maintenance against communism in such situation fiercely and can touch the wrath of the public welfare station.

The GHQ public welfare station distributed the speech manuscript which Hatoyama insisted on all over the wartime to the person concerned, and the popular will has pushed up Hatoyama and the Liberal Party clogs in hanging in Hatoyama in the top party holding a foreign press conference.