TRIAL OF MAJOR COUSENS
Received Tliursdav, 8-40 p.m." . SYDXEY, Sept. 12. Major Clmrles lluglies Cousens said in tlie Central Court to-day tliat in writing eommentaries be liad adopted a dignilied slyle, tbinking it would create antipatby in tlie minds of outside listen ers. Ile liad often used the obvious lie that tlie Ainericans started the Pacific wnr because lie kneiw 110 oue outside .lapan would believe it. The Japanese had tohi him 011 many oecasions that they were dissatisfied with his broad casts. Ile deseribed the Japanese Avitness Xiino as a " rabbit who would go whichever way the stream went." IJno, whom the Japanese witness found at Saisho, liad been deseribed undeivoath as a decent, kind man, was in realit.v a eold-lilooded, trcaeherous savage. He thought Miss Saisho was a Kempei Tai agent. and tried to deeeive her at Radio Tokio by flattering her intellectual abilitv. Ile said he lielieved that if the peaee offer made to .Tapan in 1945 had been made a year earlier, there would have lieen a revolution in Japan.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 September 1946, Page 5
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