Word: nozaka
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...sense from long years of experience. The place is swept clean, but I had no time to prepare tea." Other raids-at a greengrocer's home in Shimizu, a metal shop in Osaka-led to the arrest of seven more, leaving 19 Red fugitives, including top dog Sanzo Nozaka, still at large...
...worst blow to Japanese Communists came from within, when the Cominform publicly blasted Party Strategist Sanzo Nozaka, a Popular Front advocate, for not using more "revolutionary" methods. Japanese Politburo Member Yoshio Shiga accused Nozaka of "Titoism," caused a still unhealed intraparty schism...
Last June General MacArthur ordered Nozaka, Shiga and 22 other Red leaders expelled from political life. They went underground. Leaderless, the party rank & file began to drift away...
...nowhere to be seen or heard was the top purgee, Secretary General Kyuichi Tokuda. Equally elusive were the usually vocal Ritsu Ito, ousted Communist theorist and spokesman, and Yoshio Shiga, leading party advocate of violent action, whose "tough" policy had brought on the MacArthur order. From shrewd, slippery Sanzo Nozaka, pre-purge chairman of the Japanese Politburo, came only ironic speculation. Said Nozaka: "Now that I have so much time on my hands ... I may try to become a movie critic. Or else, now that summer is here, perhaps I can start an ice candy [Japanese Popsicle] shop...
Unless MacArthur put more heat on, Nozaka and his purged comrades probably would stay out of the ice candy business. Remarked one Tokyoite: "After the Zaibatsu [big capitalists] were purged, they still ran their companies as 'black curtains' [i.e., the men behind the scenes]. I suppose Nozaka and Tokuda will become 'red curtains...