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Most of Japan's statesmen turn up in Author Kase's book carrying olive branches. Although " Prime Minister Konoye's government brought Japan into the Axis, sanctioned the July 1941 invasion of French Indo-China, and went along with the supreme command's proposal, two months later, to declare war on the U.S., "nothing . . . was further removed from Konoye's mind than to engage upon war with the British Empire or the United States." Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, who signed the Japanese surrender, was "a man of confirmed liberal views, consistently opposed to any policy...
...Nobler Ideal. Some of the whitewash seems a little thick. But the timidity of Japanese statesmen who wanted peace is explained, in part at least, by the army's ferocity in assassinating its enemies in the government, as well as by its success in dissolving any cabinet that opposed its views. Even after the fall of Okinawa, the supreme command was determined to fight on, ignoring frantic Japanese diplomatic moves to negotiate a peace through Russia's good offices...
...This] is a fact of considerable importance. For not only Trotskyists and some Socialists disdainfully treat Stalin as a traitor to the true Marxian-Leninist world-proletarian revolution and as a common nationalistic dictator-another Hitler. Many of the most powerful Western statesmen and military leaders accept this escapist myth...
General Romulo, who is currently one of the foremost statesmen of the Far East, served as aide to General Douglas MacArthur throughout World...
Said U.S. Industrialist Roger W Straus, a Jewish layman who was one of the original founders of the National Conference of Christians & Jews: "Statesmen ot the Western world must employ all their skill" to establish international good will. "But only spiritual force will gain them the heights of their aspiration because it is only the idealistic man who has the power to give life to progress...