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ANOTHER TURN OF SCREW

GLIDER TRAINING BANNED IN JAPAN DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES ALSO CURTAILED TOKIO, November 6. The Ministry of Education ordered 'the elimination of glider training from the nation's scholastic sports programme, in line with the Allied direction forbidding all forms of military activities. Glider training was introduced into Japan from Germany and given Government sanction in the students' sports programme of 1938. It <;reated a valuable pool from which the army drew for air-borne infantry and aircraft pilots. Further limiting Japan's diplomatic activities, an Allied headquarters memorandum instructed the Imperial Government to desist from dealing with representatives of neutral countries stationed in Japan, and directed neutral, missions to refer to General MacArthur for future contracts wirh the Japanese Government.

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Evening Star, Issue 25634, 7 November 1945, Page 5

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ANOTHER TURN OF SCREW Evening Star, Issue 25634, 7 November 1945, Page 5

ANOTHER TURN OF SCREW Evening Star, Issue 25634, 7 November 1945, Page 5