The Archive · 1940

To Speed Home Front

Mobilization of Strength — Of Japan Sought

Tokyo, Aug. 9.

Mr. Ryutaro Nagai, former member of the Minseito Party, and 125 other Diet members who seceded from various political parties, or "who became independent through the dissolutions of their respective parties, yesterday organized the Society for the Acceleration of the Formation of the New Home Front.

Following its inaugural meeting held at the Tokyo Kaikan Hall yesterday afternoon, the newly-organized body issued a statement stressing the necessity of an immediate realization of a new domestic front in order to mobilize the entire strength of the nation.

The statement added that for this purpose, the establishment of a new political structure based upon a powerful government with strong political power behind it, is a necessary prerequisite.—Domei.

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