The Archive · 1937

Japan's, Policy

Speaking for the proletarian Social Masses Party, Mr. Tetsu Katayama declared: the guiding principle of Japan's China policy "must be the prevention of China's becoming a second Spain and of her Bolshevization."

Mr. Katayama expressed his re-grots over the fact that the Japanese Government has "apparently" been compelled to abandon the policy of non-aggravation of the Sino-Japanese crisis, The key to the solution of the China question, he asserted, lies in national solidarity and unity.

Arguing in a similar vein, Mr, Seigo Nakano, leader of the Tohokai reactionary party and generally regarded as the "father" of the Japanese Fascist movement, warned against the alleged danger of intervention of a third party in the Sino-Japanese: dispute, He also suggested a reconstruction of the administration so as - to organize a war cabinet.

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