JAPANESE SOCIALIST LEADER DENOUNCES U.S. WAR MOVES
Kozo Sasaki, vice-chairman of the Japan Socialist party, was. unanimously elected chairman at the party's extraordinary convention in Tokyo May 6. He succeeded Jotaro Kawakami who resigned March 11 due to ill health.
Before being elected, Sasaki opened the convention with'a powerful speech on the deepening crisis over Vietnam,
"The United States," he said, "is now baring its barbarian nature of imperialism in Vietnam and trying to expand the war to China while at the same time applying terroristic pressures upon the
Dominican people who have risen to wipe out reactionary and dictatorial politics from their country.
"It is now clear as daylight that the United States is a habitual criminal interfering with the internal affairs of other countries and is thus the provocateur of world wars."
Sasaki denounced the Sato government as "representing Japan's rightist, reactionary force."
"The government," he continued, "is doing its best to protect the interests of monopolistic capital to the neglect of the working masses,'
The present political climate, he charged, is similar to the one that prevailed on the eve of the "Manchurian Incident" [when imperialist Japan began the invasion of China]. "We must not tread the same perilous path,"
In an interview May 10, sasaki denounced Harold Wilson for
his slavish approval of Johnson's escalation of the war in Vietnam and his neocolonialist activities in Malaysia.
"Wilson's attempt to build a new Britain within the framework of the Commonwealth accounts for the emergence of a sugar-coated colonialism," he said.
Sasaki revealed some illusions in. Wilson, perhaps, when he urged that the head of her Majesty's Government “turn over a new leaf and become a good socialist. ne
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