FASCISM NOT INTENDED
STATEMENT BY JAPAN'S ARMY GENERAL HAYASHI ORDERED TO FORM CABINET (CHITED PBESS ASSOCIXTIOK—COPVaiGST-V (Received January 31, 11.2 p.m.) TOKYO, January 31. The Army has issued an ostensibly reassuring statement, denying its intention of establishing a fascist dictatorship or of radical interference in economics. The statement adds that the army sincerely desires to ensure constitutional government representing the national will. It hopes that the purification of political circles will enable the army to devote itself to defence, its essential mission. An earlier message: The Emperor summoned General Senjuro Hayashi, a former Minister for War. and commanded him to form a Cabinet, presaging a regime to implement the Army's policies which are avowedly the stabilisation of national life, the strengthening of national power and armaments, the renovating of administrative organs, the reform of the parllamentary system and elections, and other drastic purification policies.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22005, 1 February 1937, Page 9
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