League of Diet Members Supporting the Prosecution of the Holy War
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The League of Diet Members Supporting the Prosecution of the Holy War (聖戦貫徹議員連盟, Seisen Kantetsu Giin Renmei) was a political party coalition in the
The official establishment took measures, including setting up this group, and attempted to censor public "doubting". The speaker was censured in Parliament, and expelled from the chamber (and from his own party), to make an example.
The grouping published an open declaration: "We welcome the four years of sacred campaigning, in which the gallant actions of our soldiers, with the zeal and support of the people on the home front, have aimed to deliver a fatal blow to the corrupt Chiang Kai-shek regime, and have created within the Chinese masses a sentiment in favour of Japan and desires of peace."[4]
This temporary grouping played into the hands of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, whose efforts to create a one-party state were buoyed by a willingness of senior leaders of the traditional political parties to dissolve their own parties into a new organization headed by Konoe, provided that he would be able to moderate the extremism of the radicals, but still satisfy the demands of the military.[1] The League was formally disbanded on June 11, 1940.
See also
- National Spiritual Mobilization Movement
- Taisei Yokusankai
- Hakko ichiu
References
- ^ ISBN 0521223571. page 139-150
- ISBN 0-8094-2526-2.
- ^ "神戸大学 電子図書館システム --メタデータ詳細表示--". www.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
- ^ "神戸大学 電子図書館システム --メタデータ詳細表示--". www.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
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