Unbelievably, even when faced with GHQ’s ultimatum, he continued to claim that the Japanese people needed a long, slow, careful political tutelage in the ways of democracy, and that his committee’s draft had to be understood in this light. “Metaphorically speaking,” he wrote Whitney, his draft was “a tablet sugar-coated for the benefit of the masses.” Anything more radical would shock the moderates, provoke the extremists, and precipitate internal upheaval.6
