The Archive · 1936

Japan Wants No Popular Front

Tokyo. Dec. 5.

In the first domestic' repercussion of the Japanese-German Antl-Comintern "Pact, Dr. Ru. Hayashi, Justice Minister, will next week instruct the nation's chief judges and chief procurators to spare_no pains in exterminating the Communist movement in Japan, The judicial oMleiuls, who are to meet here on December 9 and 10 in an extraordinary conference. will also be informed of the steps planned by the Ministries of Justice and Home Affairs for waging a determined war on radical elements.

Dr. Hayashi and the Home Minister, Mr. X. Ushio, have already' agreed to extract the expression "jinmin sense" or "popular front: from general. usage, on the ground that it has Tately assumed a radical connotation. leading to "general

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