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...usual, assured anxious Christians that no "Japanifying" of Christianity was intended. But Tokyo's July spy sensation, when seven Japanese Salvation Army chiefs were among those arrested, gave the Government an excuse to change its mind, declare that Christian activities, like every other phase of Japanese life, "must conform to the new national structure" in order to contribute to Japan's "cooperative Asia." Shrine v. Cross. No U. S. churchman objects to the principle that Japanese converts should control Japanese Christianity...
...Purge. First victim of the new nation alist purge in Japan last week was the Salvation Army. After dismissing its for eign officers, cutting off relations with British headquarters and abolishing all military titles, the Army changed its name to the "Salvation Body" so that it might "henceforth conform to genuine Japanese principles." Still hanging in the balance is the fate of other foreign missions in Japan (biggest are Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Congrega-tionalist), with some 700 U. S. missiona ries. But Japanese Protestants met twice last week to organize the Genuine Japan Christian Church, favored...
...this optimistic ointment there was one fly, a major index which refused to conform: the figures for bank debits (checks drawn on deposit accounts). In 140 centres outside New York, these debits declined 14.3% during the last three weeks in July, a far more than seasonal recession. Such a drop in checks drawn must mean that fewer (or smaller) business transactions are being completed, that sales of goods and services have fallen off or that payment for them has been postponed...
Said the mayor last week: "I declare myself peremptorily against national registration. It is unequivocally a measure of conscription. . . . Parliament according to my belief has no mandate to vote conscription. ... I ask the population not to conform, knowing full well what I am doing presently and to what I expose myself...
...under the law which requires foreign agents to register with the State Department: "I do not believe I can be classified as an agent of any principal. . . . My agreement with the Japan Economic Federation provides that . . . there is no obligation expressed or implied that the conclusions and report will conform with any views that may be held by the federation. ... [I assume] that this federation is an agency subsidized or supported by the Japanese Government...