Appeal to the People

Gratitude for the opening of the "democratic revolution" in Japan as a result of the Allied Occupation, and "enthusiastic support" for the peace policy of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the other Allied Powers.

Promises to eliminate militarism and police politics, to confiscate "parasitic" and idle land, distributing it to the peasants, to establish free labor unions, to abolish the old security laws, to remove the military and bureaucratic cliques from power, and to set up a national assembly based on universal suffrage for all Japanese over eighteen years of age.

An attack on "phony liberals" and "pseudo-socialists" who had supported the Emperor system, declaring them unfit for leadership.

A call for the creation of a united front under Japanese Communist Party leadership of all those who shared the above objectives.

[3] According to John W. Dower "Later, when the Cold War intensified, this would become a point of embarrassment to the Communists, who lamely rationalized Tokuda's words by pointing out that the reference to "Allies" included the Soviet Union.