Tanaka, who may, perhaps, be fit-Yingly described as the strong man $f after-war Japan, will fix_atten-Hon upon the series of unal and disquietening disclosures have been made in that country dux-Ang the past few weeks. Though they have not aroused any considerble amount of interest other se residents of Shanghai these disclosures have been the absorbing subject of conversation and com ment. "Nor is this to -be wondered ft, "Although Japan has adopted and put into operation much of the' machinery and practice of the pres ent era of industrialism, she has not made similar progress in politi-matters. Some thinkers hold that democracy ison its trial throughout the world, bus however, that may be elsewhere it is certain:
Among genuinely loyal and patriotic: Japanese, the recent exyrosures in high places are consider-fed the more humiliating and dangerous in that decorations given in the name "of the sacro-saner Tu'er of Japan are involved. The justly deserved love and loyalty of the greater part of the Japanese nation Yor the present Emperor are to firmly rooted 0 be dislodged by disclosures affecting His Imperial Majesty's servants. On the other! hand, the offence is the greater because the corruption that is being investigated, and according to the apanese Press confessed, relates to decorations which come' from. the fount of honour itself and could not have been bestowed had not the Emperor been wilfully deceived, The ruling classes of Japan, and this may be said of every country that wishes to exclude the danger ous poison of Soviet propaganda, must convince the people that their form of government is better than true that the particular type of isin! ever once at ho|renegate Bere out donn can adop 6 Sap can Europe the question has been. raise hei titey eter i "Beyond a ultra'radieal ideas in Japan will be whether there is any more real given encouragement by the recen: freedom and real betterment of the Seople generally ander a aystem What, disclosures, and the combating of tre called "dangerous Wake the peoler hr they of] gusto" wit become, the ore all events, choose their own political reassuring, and its importance ean-There. has undoubted! not be over-estimated, is the re-mentary "government perience with which the mentary, government in Notably in Italy and Spain, but Earove,|isticiat machinery in. Japan. has ito con-
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