EMPEROR & JAPAN
AMERICAN POINTS OF VIEW
WASHINGTON, July 25. Rear-Admiral Thomas L. Gatch, the Navy Judge-Advocate-General, in a speech said: "The theory that the. Emperor is a god to the Japanese is pure bunk. We will soon see just how venerated he is I am certain he will die like Mussolini: but it is the Sumarai. comprising 300,000 military leaders, who must be destroyed. ' "I do not. tWnk we will have to do the job. The Japanese people will rise in one of tfto bloodiest revolutions in the history-df Japan." Thr* "New York Times," in an editorial, commenting on the suggested peace terms for Japan under which the Emperor would be retained and there would be no Allied military occupation, says: "Under those terms the whole political and economic structure headed by the Emperor, which goes even deeper than Nazism and is just as dangerous to us, would be left untouched. < '-'The whole procedure for disarming the treacherous, implacable foe would be left to a control commission with no military occupation to back it up. Such terms, we believe, fall short lof the minimum for peace in the Pacific.-''
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 7
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189EMPEROR & JAPAN Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 7
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