It is predicted here that the two great Japanese political parties, the Seiyukai and the Minseito, will fight violently, as they did in the Autumn and Spring of 1936 and 1937, against the Army's plans for the formation of a new Party on Fascist lines, which, in.eft would reduce the Diet to a "rubber stamp assembly." It is thought that these two parties will have the support of the Japanese people in this fight.
Close observers do not expect that ihe ministry will last long.
Chinese circles in London, interviewed by Reuter, state that it "makes no difference to us who is in: power in Tokyo—we will fight on just the same.
"It is possible, however," they add "that a more extreme Japanese Government is better for us, because it will hasten the chances of a popular revolt in Japan."—Reuter.
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