Evening star., 1936-03-08
SOCIALIST M1LITARISTS
DEMAND JAPAN EXPAND
Young Army and Navy Officers of
Humble Origin Are Behind Move
ment on Asiatic Mainland.
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
TINE political seismograph of the
world has oscillated violently
during these last two weeks
4 The tremors which it registered
from Japan have plunged the Western
nations into new panic. Diplomats
read in the Japanese revolution a
warning sign that can have only one
meaning-a war in the Far East must
be expected much sooner than it was
believed possible a few weeks ago
The gun play of the japanese Off
GERS has caused more worry in Lon
don, Paris, Moscow and Washington
than in 7ekio
The Western world has become ac-
customed to the quick method JAP
anese patriots adopt to dispose of their
obsolete statesmen. Political mur-
ders are more frequent in Toxic than
in the capitals of the Balkan states
When Premier Tsuyoshi Yanukai was
slain in the Spring of 1882, his "elim-
ination" caused no shivers in the
Western capitals. But the wiping out
of the Okada ministry on February
rs is an entirely different matter
1t means the establishment of a gov
ernment controlled by the super-pa-
triotic officers. backed by the dreaded
secret Society of the Black Dragon
q government which will be compelled
to put into force Immediately the
plans for further expansion on the
Asiatic mainland.
In Japan, the land of paradoxes,
q new political group has developed
within the last 10 years-the military
Socialists. Its leaders are not poll
tlclans of the common garden variety.
They seek no political power and no
political plums. They have only one
aim-the expansion of Japan on the
Asiatic mainland so that the scores of
millions of poor, practically starving
Japanese may obtain raw materials
cheaply. and markets for the products
of their labor.
Young Officers Are Leaders.
Thousands of young army and navy
ofhcers who come from humble homes,
sons OF farmers, artisans and small
merchants, are the leaders of this
movement. No less than 10 per cent
OF the total number of japanese Off
GERS are the sons of such humble
people. The military and naval
academies are wide open to everv
japanese who has the education neces-
sary to pass the strict competitive ex-
animation. The fact that his father
tolls in the field or. peddles earthen-
ware goods is no handicap to the
oficers career. His life in the arny
or in the navy is not an easy one
The work is hard and the nav is
small.
Those proletarians in gold-braided
uniforms have little in common with
ehe Russian Communists or the Ger
man Nazis or the Italian Fascists
Theirs Is political philosophy char
acteristic of country where 80 900 900
people are condemned to live on in
sufhcient territory.
And the thought of expansion by
force came to their minds the dav
the door was slammed in the face of
the japanese would-be immigrants bv
practically every nation in the world
Today few countries are willing to
accept immigrants. None is willing
to accept the little yellow man.
Brazil Gives Japan Quota.
Brazil, with population of 4o,-
100000 people, has room for 900
100000 more. Yet the Brazilian goy-
ernment has put the Japanese on a
selective quota of 1000 immigrants a
year. They arrive at Bahia or Rio
de Janeiro waving little Brazilian
hags-made In Japan-and singing
the Brazilian national anthem. But
they are not welcome guests, and
Brazil is about the only remaining
haven for the japanese emigrant.
With the door closed everywhere
else, the gold-braided Socialists of
Japan have decided to elbow their
way into Asia. which they claim be-
longs to the yellow race. But the
Toxic government lent them their
support only at the point of a pistol.
The administration was much too
cautious for these exuberant patriots.
The military Socialists Of Japan do