Shanghai, Mar. 8.
FAPAN'S legions were fighting in China to.kick out the red inenave of Soviet Russia and. terminate the invasion" of Great Britain, which were "poisoning East -Asia, declared Mr. Seigo Nakano, veteran statesman and President of the Tohokai, rightist agrarian party in the House of Representa~ tives, in a fiery speech at the Tairiku Auditorium on March 6, the Japanese daily "Tairiku Shimpo" said yesterday.
Basing his address on interviews he had with Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini in, November, 1937, Mr. Nakano said that even if Britain expressed an intention to compromise, Japan would not deviate from her present course unless Britain' ceased giving assistance to the Gen. Chiang Kai-shek regime.
'Speaking with characteristic fervor and' vehemence, the one-legged poli-Heat Teader held an audience of 2,000 orions) spellbound "by his candid Zomments on political matters and the dynamic manner' in which they were delivered.
'Mr, Naloano {s one of a triumvirate of. famous" one-legged statesmen own' throughout Japan' for" the Drillance of their political oratory. The trio included Mr, Ryutaro Nagai, who was Minister of Communications the Konoye Cabinet, and the late Marquis Shigenobu Okuma, founder Waseda University. Their oratorio cal achievements gave rise to an expression In. apan. that "he who has ne leg is Nie best speaker'
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