Tucked helplessly in an endlessly potential storm center of East-West politics, the amiable, ultranationalistic people of Burma need all the moral encouragement they can get.
Most ominously, a segment of ultranationalistic top officers, scoffing at Aramburu's ban on military candidacies, has been cheering on a dissident, unassigned general named Len .
After sending off the novel, Mishima joined four young students who belonged to the ultranationalistic paramilitary Shield Society that he had formed two years ago.