Communist Leader Against Japan Being Allied To U.S.A.
TOKIO, Nov. 8 (Recd. 11.22pm). The Prime Minister. Mr Yoshida, was seeking to ally Japan with the United States, which would throw a great unnatural barrier between Japan and the Asiatic mainland, the Japanese Communist leader, Mr Sanzo Nozaka, said today, in an interview. “We have no guns; we have only bamboo spears; therefore, Japan must look not to any single nation or bloc, but to world joint security after the treaty,” he said. “Communists oppose Japanese dependence on any country’s arms and war potential. ’ To sign a peace treaty with the United States, Britain and France only would throw .9 great political barrier down the Japan Sea from Siberia to the China Sea, isolating Japan from neighbours which before the war supplied 30 per cent, ol Japan's foreign trade. This would bring about a fatal deadlock in Japan’s self-recovery.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 9 November 1949, Page 5
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