REACTION TO ASSASSINATION OF ASANUMA INEJIRO

Created: 10/12/1960

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6. KATSUMATA SEIICHT, CHAIRMAN OF THE JSP'S EXCATION AHD PROPAGANDA BUREAU, SPOKE ON TELEVISION ABOUT HIDDEN POWERS BEHIND THE SCENES, INTTMATCNO THAT THE ASSASSINATIONALCULATED ACTION. ATER TELEVISION GISCUSSIOK, !IUlOMIV COMMENTATOR, SAID THAT "WE CANNOT SAT THBLANNED ACTION BUT WE MUST WATCH OUTSP EFFORT TO MAKE CAPITAL OUT OF IT BECAUSE THAT WOULD ONLY ENCOURAGE SUCH ACTION IN THE RTROKI REGRETTED THE STATEMENTS MADE PREVIOUSLY BT MR. KATSUMATA.

FORMER PRIME MINISTER KISKI NOBUSUKE, SPEAKING) ON THE RADIO, EXPRESSED SURPRISE, SORROW, AND REGRET, STATING THAT HE TOO HADICTIM OF TERRORISM.

MASUTANI SHUJI, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE LDP, SAID THIS WAS AN EXTREMELY RFDRETTABLE INCIDENT BUT THAT THERE WOULD BE NO CHANGE IN PLANS FOR AN ELECTION.

A FUNCTIONARY OF THE DEMOCRATIC SXIALIST PARTY (DSP) TFOUGHT THERE WOULD BE INEVITABLE SYMPATHY FOR THE JSP AND THAT SUZUKI HOSABURO WOULD PEOBABLT REPLACE ASANUMA AS THE PARTY CHAIRMAN. HE ADDED THAT THE INCIDENT MIGHT WELLORE RADICAL LEFTIST MOVEMENT THAT WOULD BE RECIPROCATED BY RIGHT-WING ACTION. ALL OF THIS WOULD WORK AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE LDP.

SPOKESMAN FOR THE DSP, APPEARING ON TELEVISON, SUGGESTED THE POSSIBILITYDIET WOULD NOT DE DISSOLVED BUTROLONGED EXTRAORDINARY SESSION, THUS

DELAYING THE PROJECTED GENERAL ELECTION.

DISS EM: CINCPAC, PACFLT, PACAF, ARPAC

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