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...mind," he wrote in a book called The Meaning of Intelligence, "are the persons whose intact brains, giving the highest promise up through childhood, . . . have been so systematically drugged with the vapors of dogma, superstition and pseudo logic. . . . Man-made concepts, such as devils, witches, taboos, hellfire, original sin . . . and divine revelation . . . have distorted the intellectual processes of millions of persons...
...Russians deserved much of the blame. But the others were not without sin. The U.S. delegation was badly briefed. Within the delegation, sharp differences developed. To some observers, Byrnes gave the impression of a man who had already convinced himself that Europe's problems were insoluble. This attitude encouraged the Russians to doubt that a strong U.S. position would be maintained very long...
...later expanded the name to "Orphan Annie, your playmate." (She never used Tokyo Rose, the G.I. name for her. ) It was all a lie, also, she insisted, that she had opened her program by saying: "Good evening again to the . . . forgotten men, the American fighting men. . . ." The wages of sin, in her case, were 100 yen ($6.60) a month, later raised to 147 yen. Just what the punishment will be, if any, the U.S. had not yet announced. (Her defense attorneys would undoubtedly bring up the U.S. Navy's silly-season award to her for raising the morale...
...guilt they seemed to feel not at all. Some students of Japanese history maintain that in ancient and modern Japanese ethics there is no sense of guilt. Sin and catastrophe are in the same category. The war's disastrous end was grievous as earthquakes had been grievous. Defeat polluted but did not necessarily shame; it called, perhaps, for "purification," but not for repentance and atonement...
Koreans trace their national history back 4,000 years. They say they were the first people to have a national flag (1,000 B.C.), an encyclopedia (circa 1405), a solar observatory, a printing press (1403), and an ironclad navy (1592), which, under redoubtable Admiral Yi Sun Sin, inflicted the only defeat on the Japanese fleet before...