*Tokyo, Nov. 1.
The Minseito, largest political party in Japan, has formulated a continental policy to meet the new situation im China, the "Chugai Shogyo," influential commercial newspaper, reported today. The programme was prepared after a series of meetings of the party's executive committee in the past six months.
The party's continental policy was outlined as follows:
Japan, Manchoukuo and China should form an East Asiatic League io maintain peace and order in the Far East; Japan, Manchoukuo and the new China should work in close co-
Operation to prevent the penetration of Communist influences into the Far Fast; Ca-operation should be maintained among the three nations for national defence and economic and cultural development; In the execution of the policy the party will advocate the following activities:
Japan shall make every effort to preserve peace and hasten economic developments in the Japanese-occupied regions and to provide cultural facilities in new' China; Japan shall lead the local regimes already established in China in the organization of a new Central Gov. ernment which Japan shall eventually recognize as one unit of the projected East Asiatic League and induce foreign Powers to recognize; "Open Door" Recognized economic structure in new shall be reorganized to con-With the unified economic y of Japan, Manchoukuo and and the "open doo principle for foreign countries shall be respected under the new economic structure; With economic rehabilitation completed in China, currency shall be gradually linked with the yen w the barter system shall be skillfully worked out between Japan, Manchou kuo and China on the basis of the unified, economic policy of the three nations.
Anti-Japanese and pro-thoughts shall be eliminated in C! and the "traditional spirit of Orient" shall be preserved Ecdnomic policies shall ba ex cuted on the principle of ce-existence and mutual prosperity of Japan Manchoukuo and China; Japan shall- induce foreign Pow, to recognize her position as the guiding Power in the Far East, and Japan shall establish herself on firm ground in international diplomacy by strengthening the—anti-Comintern Pact.—Domei.
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