READY FOR PEACE

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 23, 27 July 1945, Page 8

READY FOR PEACE

IF TERMS NOT TOO STIFF TOKIO RADIO SUGGESTION . (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) NEW YORK, July 26. A mystery Japanese broadcast was heard last night suggesting that Japan might be ready for peace if the terms were not too harsh. It was picked up by tlfe Federal Communications Commission. ~'■'. The broadcast said: "There are no problems between a liberal America and Japan. A liberal America has never given occasion for Japanese militarists to rise, but America now talks of unconditional surrender for Japan. "Though American official quarters keep relative silence,. official publicists declare that Japan should be stripped of this and that. They intend to mete out such hard retribution that the Japanese are more determined than ever on united resistance." To emphasise the merits of a lenient peace the broadcaster repeated one of Aesop's fables: "There are two methods whereby a man might surrender his possessions," he said. "The wind said forcefully to the sun that he could make the passer-by give up his overcoat more quickly than the sun. He began to blow harder and harder, but the man held his coat tighter and tighter. The wind f ailed. "The sun took his part; he gently smiled and warmed the passer-by with his sunbeams. The passer-by shed his coat." The broadcast over Tokio radio also said: "Should America show any sign " of sincerity in putting into practice what she preaches, as, for instance, the Atlantic Charter, the Japanese nation and military would automatically, if unwillingly" (here several words are missing). The next part caught said: "Follow in stopping the conflict. Then, and only then, will the sabres cease to "rattle in the East and West."