Word: roth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DILEMMA IN JAPAN-Andrew Roth-Little, Brown...
...that Japan has been conquered by scientific, mechanical and military skill, has the U.S. the political skill to make the victory stick? Andrew Roth, an expert on Japan, doubts...
...onetime Naval intelligence lieutenant -now under federal indictment for a suspected part in departmental leaks (TIME, June 18)-26-year-old Author Roth is a passionate, informed, biased and frequently angry witness. A large chunk of his book is given over to a savage recapitulation of the "naive" prewar Tokyo policies of ex-U.S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew: a "handsome . . . distinguished elderly gentleman" who is, to Author Roth, "the personification of the predominant school of American policy toward Japan...
Sitting pretty well left of center, Roth does not worry about a burgeoning U.S.S.R. He has nothing but contempt for the power politics which would use a strong and militaristic Japan as a bulwark against communism. In the same category, he places the Grew-inspired policy of catering to Hirohito "because he might turn out to be the sole stabilizing force" in a Nippon ruptured by defeat. Except, he says, for speeding the surrender (now accomplished), the U.S. cannot do business with the Emperor...
...Roth's reasons for his conclusions are impressive because they are well documented. Roth has dug into the "folklore" that has falsely painted Japan as a nation of fanatics. He also examines the history of the Emperor's "holy" position...