WI the Japanese assassinated Charlie Chaplin in 1932

Doing research on my Chamberlain's Dream TL I came across this. During the March 15 incident in 1932, the plotters planned to assassinate Charlie Chaplin along with the Japanese Prime Minister. Apparently the idea being to provoke a war with the US.

Now I'm assuming the US wouldn't go to war over this, but I'm reasonably sure murdering one of the most popular US actors at the height of his career would have had an effect. So what would it do? Force the Japanese to attempt a crack down on the military? And if does, does this preserve the Taisho democracy or doom it several years early?
 

Greenville

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Chaplin would have had a better life after not being exiled by the U.S. as a supposed communist in the 50's.
 
Don't know that it would have been much more than a minor footnote. To be sure, Chaplin had his fans but an equal or greater number of people likely agreed with W. C. Fields, who said of Chaplin "That son-of-a-bitch is a g*****ned ballet dancer." Yeah, there wouldn't have been The Great Dictator, but by the time it was made in 1940, it was too late for mocking Hitler to do anything other than score intellectual points, so small loss there.
 
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