The Archive · 1941

Anti-Comintern Committee

On the other side. the Japanese have. as I ventured (o predict some weeks ago, started to clamp down on the anti-Communist campaign. A. so-called North China Anti-Comintern Commission, with headquarters here under the' direct controls of the North China Political Coun and "with branches ger cities of was scheduled to be set up in Marck of this year. Later, the opening was estponed to April. Later still, Ma} Gen. Shiozawa, the acting head of the China Affairs Board. announced that the commission would start in [the beginning of 'May. But up to Jéate nothing more has' been heard about "the Anti-Comintern "Commis sion. and the delay is not unnatural ly ascribed to the Stalin-Matsuok: kiss on the Moscow station platter After that. the strangest things. [Eossible, even negotiations between Enincse' Communisis'and Japanese

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