The Archive · 1940

Expulsion Opposed

In view of the stand taken by the Government and the army, the leaders' of the Minseito Party were understood to have given up hope of keeping Mr. Saito, who has been their colleague for nearly 25 years, in his seat and are reported. to have decided agree to his expulsion.

Meantime, all Minseito members from Osaka Prefecture have notified their party managers of their opposition to any move to expel Mr, Saito from the House of Representatives, was learned.—Domei, Karelia, now much in the public eye in the Russo-Finnish war, can boast of two women who were decorated with the British Military Medal. They were taking rations for troops in the Kern area by river when attacked by three enemy sol. diers in a boat, who fired on them. They drove straight at them, rammed them, sank their boat, belaboured the soldiers with their oars, and the rations, we of them, ther plumes in the caps of Prof, Haushofer and his. geopolitical collaborators, After Munich the world-planners of the Haushofer school set the stage for the acquisition of the greatest prizes of all—England's abandonment of Czechoslovakia—convinced that the time had come when the essential and ultimate conditions for the establishment of German domination would be fulfilled. England clearly appeared to be avoiding war and to leave the road open for Germany's enslavement of all Eastern Europe.

With those bulwarks gone, England herself would have no alternative but to accept Germany as her master on the Continent. Then the first hitch occurred: Poland did not react to pressure of the kind that had brought Austria and Czechoslovakia into the German Reich. Frantically Haushofer pleaded with Hitler to bide his time and continue the pressure on Poland patiently, without resorting to open warfare. Hitler plunged into war with Poland in the belief that the struggle would localized and that Great Tokyo, Feb, 19.

Opposition to proposals that Mr. Takao Saito, a member of the House of Representatives, be expelled from the Diet appeared to be taking shape today as the disciplinary committee of the Lower House prepared to resume its investigation into the case.

Expulsion of Mr. Saito from the Lower Chamber was demanded after he severely criticized the principles for the disposal of China affairs, as announced in the Konoye statement, Several influential members of the Miseito Party, to which Mr. Saito belonged before he resigned under pressure after his address, were reported sores, ringworm, itch, chapped lips and hands, piles and skin complaints generally are best treated with the delightfully fragrant ointment

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