Further criticism of the Council's decision to permit the flying of the national flag on eight holidays during the year appeared in the Japan press yesterday. The legal position of the Council in ordering or enforce ing the removal of flags objected to by the Japanese was. discussed, and objections said to have been put forward by Council officials were ruthlessly over-ridden on the ground that the flags constitute an anti-Japanese demonstration, Said the ""Tairiku Shimpo".—
"We the Japanese are continuing the hard struggle of iron and blood' ior the construction of a new orde: in East Asia. If there be any obstacles that stand in our way, no matter how trifling they are, we must break through them, notwithstanding the accompanying trouble and difficulties.
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