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...your article on the Japanese surrender in the Sept. 3 issue of TIME, you say that the Japs were treating their invaders "as equals." I submit that they are treating them as "tourists," guests of the Emperor and of the empire. It is the same old propaganda line of prewar, days...
Recently, France's good friend, Annamite Emperor Bao Dai (a topflight ping-pong player), formed a government of Viet Minh leaders who promptly ousted Bao Dai. New ruler of Annam, Tonkin and Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
...when he was commander of a training fleet visiting San Francisco, he had said there should never be a war in the Pacific, that should there ever be a war between Japan and the U.S., both would be punished by the heavens. He had never changed that opinion. The Emperor, he knew well, held the same view...
First he discussed peace with the Emperor, then on June 9 he extended the first peace feelers to the Soviet Union through diplomatic channels. Very few in Japan knew of the move. When Russia replied that they were sorry but they were occupied with the meeting with T. V. Soong, Suzuki knew it was too late. Then came the Potsdam Conference and the Soviet answer to the peace feeler: the declaration...
...Emperor. Suzuki was emphatic on the subject of the Emperor. Until just before he took office as Premier, the Emperor was uninformed about the disastrous trend of the war. Suzuki said firmly that the Emperor had been against the war, had repeatedly requested that some peaceful way out be found, that Admiral Nomura's task in Washington was to carry out the Emperor's wishes...