IN BAD PLIGHT
POSITION OF JAPANESE
LONDON, June 22
"Japan is now in the same position as we would have been if we had failed to keep control of the sea," said the First Sea Lord, Sir Andrew Cunningham, in a speec hat Edinburgh. ' He said that it was only by severing our sea communications that the enemy could hope to win. Merchant shipping became the direct objective of the heaviest attacks. Britishers had an underlying knowledge of the meaning of sea power, but it took a war to convince them that it was the basis of their existence. "Japan, like Britain, depended on sea communications," Sir Andrew said. For a short time after Pearl Harbour they wielded unrestricted sea power. Then the Alies slowly but surely wrested it from them. "We are deploying our forces to the eastward," he added. "Although much hard, bitter fighting lies ahead, the end is sure. Japan will be forced into unconditional surrender."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 7
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159IN BAD PLIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 7
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