JAPAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE
I asked a Japanese friend, writes the London corrcspondent of the Yorkshire Post, whether there would be popular support in Japan for a war with China. He replied by quoting a fable printed in Japanese school historics: Three farnous statesmen of the 16th century, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and lyeyashu, were asked by a philosopher vvhat they would do if a nightingale rcfused to jping. 4I should kill it," said the first. "I should force it to sing," said the second, The third replied: "I should wait till it sang." These, my friemJ added, p.re th§ thieo moodft of Japan. Who shall say which will provail®
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 202, 11 September 1937, Page 4
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