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...know that the Germans came stunningly close to perfecting this fearful weapon and we are told that the Japanese received from them all the information the Nazis had gathered. It was simply a race to see which of us could complete it first, and the Jap trail of bestiality, thousands of miles long, gives us to understand that they would certainly not have hesitated to use this force, had they won the race...
Ashore, U.S. photographers crouched side by side with Domei's lensmen, shooting the big shots. One Domei cameraman had carrier pigeons to fly his pictures back to his office. U.S. and Jap reporters elbowed each other at press conferences. Jap reporters obligingly gave out interviews, and in turn interviewed U.S. newsmen. (Didn't they agree that the bombing of Japanese cities was horrible?) The U.P. came up with an eyewitness description of atom-bombed Hiroshima from its onetime Tokyo office manager, Honolulu-born Leslie Nakashima, who went there to look up his mother. Wrote he: "I was dumfounded...
American reporters went into Tokyo ahead of the U.S. Army, simply taking a suburban train like thousands of other commuters. (Said an obliging fellow from the Jap Information Bureau: "When young gentlemen wish go Tokyo? Trains every half hour.") They dropped in at Domei, looked over the busy newsroom, were photographed chatting with the editors. A woman guide (born in California) was assigned to escort one group around. She said she wasn't Tokyo Rose: that was two other girls from Los Angeles. At the Imperial Palace one newsman got as far as the Emperor's foreign secretary...
Domei continued to pour out propaganda stories, one of them accusing U.S. soldiers of raping Jap girls. At week's end, U.S. reporters discovered that Domei, far from being put out of business, had signed an agreement with the Chinese Central News Agency to transmit its news to China on the regular Domei propaganda broadcast...
Orders from Tokyo (Jap atrocities in Manila; TIME...