JAPANESE'S IMPRESSION
OF GERMANY AT WAR
LIKE A SPINNING TOP
A Japanese traveller who returned to Tokio recently after a visit to Germany, described his impressions in the following words: — "The German people I met were in no mood to fight. They werje afraid that, if war started, their country, then on the way to rehabilitation, might crumble again. What Hitler seemed to be guarding against most Avas trouble with the Nrj'/'i Party. Killer's critics said: 'Hitler's Germany is like a spinning top; once stopped it will fall.' 1 realised the truth of this comment during my stay in Germany."' The writer of the foregoing, says The Times, was Mr • Massatsu Yasouka, president of Kinkei College. He added that Germany's much publicised rehabilitation was not complete, and that its hidden' defects were serious. He found that Great Britain desired peace, hut thought that the desire was due to "age and repletion." He added, however, "England, too, has young redblooded leaders."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 112, 19 January 1940, Page 7
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160JAPANESE'S IMPRESSION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 112, 19 January 1940, Page 7
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