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7.
And in the case of anchoukuo her destined fate is to follow
Japan's star for good or ill. During 1938 anchoukuo has
faithfully followed Japan in enforcing civil defence and gen-
eral mobilisation laws. Some form of conscription is now
under consideration. And the servant of the government, the
Concordia Society, is industriously forming boys', youths and
young men's associations to mould popular thought in the right
direction.
17. As an unofficial organ of goverment this Society
deserves study. Setablished under the aegis of the government
it is nominally an independent association.
Actually it takes
ita orders from the government. It aing to assimilate the five
nations of Manchoukuo and to act as intermediary between them
and the government. Ostensibly then one of its duties is to
act as a sort of informal people's assembly. In practice it
forms the machinery by which the government communicates its
wishes to the people; it organizes loyal demonstration and
patriotic movements. Membership is as far as I can discover voluntary: the fact that it constitutes a hall-mark of respect-
ability while non-membership may create suspicion of any prom-
inent citizen's loyalty should be sufficient inducement to join.
18. It draws its funds from a government subsidy of Yuan
3,000,000 and subscriptions. Covernment officials mostly belong
as a matter of course. It is supposed to have 600,000 embera
who pay 1 Yuan monthly so that from this source Yuan 7,000,000 is derived. When we add 'voluntary' subscriptions from well-
wishers, we get a respectable total.
19. Sumsing up, one may any that anchoukuo is in form an independent state but actually a subject state or dependency
of Japan.
The only question is the manner in which the control
is exercised. Japan maintains an Ambassador at the Court of
Hsinking but one may hazard a guess that he is not under the
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