Word: roth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ETHEL ROTH...
Forgotten Men. Like many a leftist (but with sounder reasoning than most), Roth pleads for faith in Japan's forgotten men: the exiled Communists, liberals, and long-oppressed masses...
...preserve the Emperor, says Roth, means inevitably to preserve the ruling clique which protects him. The most dangerous of the shifting ruling groups in Japan, says he, is that "which will try most eagerly to please us." More potent than the now discredited Gumbatsu (military class) - the self-proclaimed "angels of peace" - are the Zaibatsu, the plutocracy, which controls some 62% of Japan's financial, industrial and commercial wealth...
Because the Zaibatsu exercise such control over Japan's economy and would cheerfully jettison the militarists, the dangerous tendency, Roth believes, is for the U.S. to leave Japan's private affairs largely to them. By doing so the U.S. would certainly "maintain unchanged the internal conditions that were basically responsible for launching Japan on her campaign of conquest...
Hirohito and his Zaibatsu have repeatedly styled themselves "moderates" yet promoted the course of militarism from the beginning. Japan, says Author Roth, is bristling with genuine anti-militarists, many of whom have died or found sanctuary in Communist China rather than follow the path of conquest. He pleads that the U.S. put its confidence in these, rather than in the silkily persuasive aristocrats...