However, newspapers both inside and outside of Japan intensified investigations into Konoe's responsibility for the war, and people such as Jiro SHIRASU attempted to save Konoe by announcing that he had been put in charge of revising the constitution by MacArthur.
しかし、国内外の新聞では、戦時体制を敷いた近衛の責任問題の追及が激しくなり、白洲次郎たちは近衛がマッカーサーに憲法改定を託されたことを宣伝して回り、近衛を助けようと試みた。