Tokyo, Mar. 25. HERE are indications that Japan is turning away from the Fascist trends of recent years and leaning toward a more conservative course. The movements toward Fascism which cropped out in 1936 and appeared last year to be on the way toward success have been brought almost to a standstill since the Hiranuma Cabinet came to office.
In one of those rare cases of psi chologicat timing, the courtesy "extended by the United States Government in sending home in state the ashes of the Ite Ambassador Mr. Hiroshi Saito seems to have picked up this shift away from the totali-arian ideology and given it added momentum.
There has been nothing in recent years fo match outpouring of grati-{ude which came from the Japanese people when, President Roosevelt ordered an American cruiser assigned to return Mr, Saito's ashes to his homeland, The truculence which the Japanese press and officials had shown over the proposal to develop Guam island Aisappeared Immediately. Editorial writers and orators held forth on the traditional friendship between the United States and Japan, recalled Theodore Roosevelt's help in ending, the "Russo-Japanese war and con= eluded that it would be better to enhance rather than rupture formerly pleasant relationships.
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