SOCIALISTS CRITICIZE CHINA'S BOMB
While visiting Peking, leaders of the Japanese Socialist party expressed strong criticism of China's explosion of an atomic, device October 16, the day the delegation arrived. Other disagree~. ments were also voiced, but the sharpest clash occurred over this _ event.
On October 29, however, the Japanese Socialists. Joined in a common statement. with the Chinese Communists denouncing. “United ' States imperialism" as "the common enemy of the Japanese and. Chinese peoples,’ -
The joint declaration said, "The forces of socialism,: national independence, democracy and peace in the world have greatly. surpassed those of imperialism headed by the United States," oe
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