CROWDS FLOCK TO HEAR TOJO'S TESTIMONY
Received ilondav, iMidnight. TOKK), Dee. 29. Crowds floeked to the War Ministry building today wherft Tojo's eoun.sel •oiitiiiucd to read the 50,000 lvord de po-^it ion aeeusing tlie Allies oi' ' flagraiitl v " forcing .Tapan into the war. Tokio newspapers at the weekend levotcd nearly their entire front pages o the aftidavit which the Allied authorllies in Tokio deaerilied as "tlie inosf iltranatioiialislic, niilitaristic proparanda attempted since the end of the var". The Tokio Times called 11 'Ibstone testimony". Tlie general ipinion is tiiat Tojo, 'wlio can have few donbts as to his nltimate fate, has struek the last great blovv for the miliaristic Japau he once led. The Asahi 'Oinmented editoriallv that the Tojo iffidavit had betraved the unreasonableuess of .Tapan 's politics in the pasf hui is a resuit of peaee tlie country had 'inerged as a free democratic nation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 December 1947, Page 5
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