BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 12 - A plot by the Japanese military clique to assassinate Charlie Chaplin in Tokyo in 1932 in the hope that this act would precipitate a war between Japan and the United States was revealed by the film comedian in an interview here today.
    Explaining his hurried departure from Japan following the assassination of Premier Tsuyoski Inukai, Mr. Chaplin said that his name was found on the murder list prepared by Japanese extremists for the terroristic outbreak of May, 1932.
    It was this outbreak, reputedly planned and carried out by the Black Dragon Society of Japan, which destroyed popular opposition to imperialism in Japan and launched the country on the road of conquest.
    Mr. Chaplin laid he now believed that he owed his escape from death to the fact that he happened to be attending a wrestling match with a son of Premier Inukai on the night when the terrorists invaded the Premier's home and shot him.