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Enclosed find a photograph which was removed from a slain Jap on Okinawa. The lady in slacks appears to be Amelia Earhart...
Reason & Unreason. Between Indonesians and Dutch, the British muddled. (Technically they were present in the Indies to accept the Jap surrender and to keep order during the process.) With India, Burma and Malaya in the back of their minds, they trod warily, favoring neither full native autonomy nor a return to prewar colonialism. "If the Dutch make a reasonable offer," said a British spokesman, "the rest depends on the Indonesians. We can only satisfy reason; then we must deal with unreason." Significantly he added: "If matters come to the use of force by the Dutch, world opinion will not stand...
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto actually never boasted that he would dictate peace in the White House-quite the contrary, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported; the sword-rattling Japanese Government had simply twisted Yamamoto's remarks. Said Nimitz: newly discovered Japanese documents prove that the Jap admiral was trying to warn his people that in any war on the U.S. "to make victory certain we will have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House...
...MacArthur made much progress with the inscrutable Jap mind, which has found it no trouble at all to evade or "misunderstand" his directives. Large landowners have proved especially skillful at dodging. Instead of breaking up their estates under MacArthur's ordered land reforms, many have just registered part of their holdings under other names...
Last week one ranking American in Japan admitted that nothing practical could be done about land reform until there was a strong farmers' cooperative which could exert pressure on the Jap Government through future Diet representation. Many another MacArthur reform needed similar backing by interested Japs before it would be effective...