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 that I could make a memo and propose it to the cabinet. When I heard this news, I proved to be too late again. I have no anger for what you, People's Party, have done, and I feel for you because we lacked understanding in each other. Once I head the news, I guessed it was about the government. I regretted that I was too late, which brought a great shame to me. On that day, upon hearing what you announced on radio, I felt so sad and hurt over the many evil things you accused me of, of which none is true.

"When I heard such an announcement, I thought that you were perhaps staging insurrection. I then sought counsel and got three ways out. If I wanted to flee, I got as many as twenty-four hours to flee. If I wanted to fight, I got military forces from outer towns. But I thought that taking flight would result in a great chaos, there could be killings and deaths, and members of the royal family could be endangered. To fight, it was not too difficult. I did not want to let the shedding of blood, I then accepted you. When making the acceptance, I did declare that I was having infirmities and I had no son or daughter and that I accepted to return to you due to my desire to support you, so that you would be able to establish a charter for administration firmly, despite some royals probably feeling that this was the way of a coward.

"In your announcement which accused me of employing only flatterers, nothing is true. I have dismissed bunches of corrupt persons. But how could I alone roam around to catch corrupt men across the country? Even in this Party corrupt figures will be found too — just wait and see! I believe that all members of the royal household were frankly determined to support the government affairs. The accusation that they took citizens as their slaves or