The group of reactionaric who regard the Washington. ference and all its fruits as just so_ many spokes in the wheel of Japan's future growth, have formed -themselves into a political organization called the Kakushin Club. They include a large number of the intellectuals of the country and many members of the Diet, but fair-minded and level-headed Japanese agree that the creed of the Kakushin Club submerges sense for sentiment. For instance, in one of the reports of the Club, it is stated that. the awakening of India is the direct result of the abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance,"' although the Government had been blamed for merging the Alliance into the Quadruple Pact. The "Yorodzu" a popular Tokio daily newspaper, which, although not in any way directly controlled by the Kakushin' Club, ° yet
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