The spokesman of the Foreign Office, on the basis of a police report, said that about 250 members of the Bodyogo Kokudan, or Anti-Comintern National Defence Society, which was organized on January 15 with non-Parliamentary members of the Min-saito and Seiyukai Parties, went in two groups to the headquarters of the two Parties at 3 p.m. yesterday.
The group which visited the Min-saito headquarters, said the spokesman, withdrew at 730 pin. while those who entered the Seiyukai building withdrew at 9.30 p.m.
The purpose of their visits, according to a statement of their leaders, was to accelerate the movement for the formation of a new political party which would represent a united front for the nation in face of the present national emergency.
The affair, the spokesman said, was purely an internal matter of the two political parties and had no other significance,
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