"GASaESe See WE weRS UYRee Ieeger
vars for letting the Russians get away with it,
"
- ”
- However, the Foreign Office has not been entirely without finction in this
:tuation.
Bubassy despatch 25h, Septedtber 13, reported one important ocontribu-
“-on to the Hatoyama letter to Bulganin
Planming is under way for the post
-. pealization contingencies. One }
elal requested (and was given)
.for:.at'on on the Department's schedules of special allowances to personnel servng in Moscow by way of assistance in Japanese preparations for establishing an
wbassy.
In addition, the Embassy has learned that the Foreign Office intends
. take every effort to obtain a consulate at Viadivostoks “since the principle
i veciprocity is our sole criterion, and our sole weapon with the Soviets," as
ve cotficer put it, the only Russian consulate that would be permitted in Japan
“id ce at Hakodate. Howewer, it was realised that Soviet agreement might be
xe cune by since no other country has a consulate in Vladivostok. The impres=
1 1. was thet the Japanese vould be quite pleased to accept a consulate in
‘\.aidete in return, and quite firm in denying it otherwise. The refurbishing of
vee as: ian consulate building in Hakedate, recently reported, was apparently
2.7 te Japanese custodians as a means of trying to assure that the Japanese
‘onsulate building in Vladivostok would also be returned in good condition.
' Foreign Office souree has also told the Eabassy that there would be "no
‘ecessity" for Jann to engage in cultural activities in the Soviet Union and,
«
ore there would be "no necessity" for the Soviets to open any cultural
.o 1.72 in Janan, This same official anticipated that the Japanese Embassy in
1 wf will be beset with problems related to the whereabouts of the more than
‘4; Japanese missing in the USSk, Foreign Minister Shepilov, he said, had
‘~ orleed Shicemitsu to conduet a search for information on these people, and
.
é.panase Foreign Office had given the Russians all informtion it had avail. v an tueir identity. But the Rabassy's biggest headache at first, he thought,
'. “@ to pursue the search,
(WBC)
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“Ti. CP Mewberghip
Speaking before the. Thureday Lecture Club ef the Industrial Club on Sep-
tenber 27, Justice Minister Ryose MAKINO annowced that current Justice Hinistry
tstinates set Japan Comamist Party (JCP) membership at about 125,000.
Ina ™ ©
speech which played dow somewhat the seriousness of the internal communist
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tureat in Japan, Makino went on to say that abou’ §,000 ecumunists are believed
t- be employed by the various departaents of the goverment. However, according |
‘o Kakino, the Government does not plan another “red purge” euch as the one car~
~1ea@ out several years ago. He announced that because sufficient security coun
‘-messures have been taken, there is no need for concern over communists stealing
a