JAPAN: Genro, Godling & Ginger

In the most imminent danger of assassination remained last week nearly all prominent Japanese who had any reputation as mild men or liberals and were not identified with the Japanese Army's murderously inclined "Ginger Group" (TIME, March 9).

The Japanese Navy went so far as to land marines in Tokyo and throw them in a protective cordon about the residence of Mr. Keisuke Okada, not because he rated this attention as Premier of Japan but because the Navy considers him one of its own as a retired Japanese Admiral.

Neither the Army nor...

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