A welter of bombings in Tokyo and the assassination of Japan's Premier produced last week comparatively little horror, dismay or revulsion but such cool Japanese comments as these:
His Excellency Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, Minister of War (after a 20-minute audience with the Son of Heaven. Emperor Hirohito): "So far as I can learn the events of today were designed to purify politics."
Nichi Nichi, famed Tokyo daily: "Leaf-lets distributed by the plotters indicate they were extremely worried regarding the economic situation. . . .
"They aimed to cause a...
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