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Kyoto last week offered a case in point. There parents of children attending high school complained to the board of education that teachers were reading the Communist party newspaper Akahata (Red Flag) in their classrooms and forcing students to sing the Internationale. Children were urged to see a current crop of anti-U.S. movies, notably Hiroshima, a lurid hate movie about the atom bombing, which the Teachers Union itself produced and sponsored...
...Japan, following General MacArthur's suspension of Akahata, leading Communist newspaper, Japanese authorities closed down 1,092 Communist newspapers and periodicals...
...MacArthur decided that he had had enough of Red rabble-rousing. One morning last week the angry general ordered the Japanese government to bar the Communist Party's 24 Central Committeemen from all further political activity. The next day MacArthur added to the list 17 top staffers of Akahata (Red Flag), the party's newspaper...
...gags words and opinions, snatches that right to free expression which democracy supposedly protects. None of the 24 will be allowed to speak publically, and eight of them who are elected members of the Diet must resign. The ban is extended to seventeen editors of the Communist newspaper, "Akahata"; presumably these men must stop drawing Japanese characters...
...Akahata, Tokyo's Communist newspaper, denounced the circulation of Shiga's memo as "subversive." At first Shiga declined to make a public retort. "Intraparty affairs," he said, "should be solved within the party." Last week Akahata repeated and amplified its reprimand; it also printed a terse apology from No. 3. Then, within their central committee, the comrades rehashed the issue in hot & heavy argument. The solution: a statement reproving Shiga but leaving him still in his influential post. Japan's lesser comrades looked on, baffled and bewildered by the complex top-level schism...