The masses of Japan, far from being radicals, are conservatives, probably to some extent renetionaries.
'Just before I arrived in Tokyo, for example, Baron Tanaka's Government was faced with a very' serious condition. The populace were quite excited over what they regarded as an outrageous disregard of the Imperial prerogatives. In the Kellogg Treaty, the words in the name of the peoples" appears; but the Japanese felt that their Government had grossly erred in signing a treaty with such a phrase, It should have read "in the name of the- Emperor." And this took explaining away.
Even among the Socialists, the attitude towards the Emperor and the Imperial Household is-one of the deepest reverence. One Socialist leader told me that the marriage of Misg Matsudaira to. Prince Chichibu was a big event for the people, it meant to some extents izing influence in the Labour Firmly Anti-Communist As for the Communists, there are said to be 400 of them, all in prison. Tt was rather difficult for me to see them there, although it would Perhaps have been worth while. The labour movement is not Communistic, The principal leaders of the Social Democratic Party, Professor Isoo Abe, Mr. Bunji Suzuki and Professor Kanichiro Kamei abhor Communism more bitterly than do the capitalists, for they are Second International Socialists, who fight the Third International inside the labour movement. I understand that there are about '70,000 paid members of the labour movement, but that does not represent the full strength. At any rate, the tendency is for labour and capital to arbitrate and to come to terms through conference. Mr. Bunji Suzuki, the labour leader, is a powerful personality, big and round and cheerful, whose views are world-wide. Professor Kamei, who is more academic, is comparatively new to the labour world, his original sphere having been the aristocracy and the foreign office. Such men will not produce a revolution, They are more Lkely to produce a union of the capitalists and labourers, somewhat after the fashion American trade unionism.
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