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...annihilation-self-inflicted or imposed-of one of the nations of mankind. Recent suicides (military and civilian) indicate that the Jap yen for suicide is due less to fear of torture and imprisonment by U.S. captors than to a belief that somehow each death provides "a shield for the Emperor" and "contributes to the inevitable victory...
Harried Italians had British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's word for it that Italy's African empire was gone. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Lion of Judah, licked his chops in the expectation of regaining Eritrea. In North Africa, the Grand Senussi Seyyid Mohamed Idris expected that Britain would hand him Cyrenaica under some form of protectorate. Disposition of Italian Libya and Tripoli had not yet been suggested...
Religion. Camp Susupe's makeshift Buddhist "temple" has a tin roof, no front wall, but its priest has all his trappings. Shinto (Emperor worship) poses more of a problem in religious freedom-thus far, U.S. authorities have made no attempt to stop Shintoism, but no facilities have been set up to encourage...
...Rubble. The town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...
...hear a lot about their being anxious to die for their emperor, about mass suicides and disregard for their own lives. That isn't always the case. Take this one story: it may be an exception to the rule, but at least it proves that all Japs aren't fanatics...