Important political parties in Japan, he noticed, have not yet declared their real attitude towards the government's policy in the present crisis, They are afraid of being cused of being unpatriotic, thereby affecting their prestige and enhancing the influence of the Fascists. Nevertheless, they have demanded from the government a declaration of the real object of the war. It is evident that they do not understand the meaning of the struggle. Neither can they see its necessity.
The influence of those against war is not at present powerful enough to exercise an effective check upon the policy of the government and the militarists, but if the Chinese government and army are able to put up a firm and protracted resistance against the Japanese aggression, the finances and resources of the Japanese people will be so strained that this growing discontent wilh make itself heard, he coneluded.—Central News. ment that would relieve the Japanese. economic situation."
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