PRE-WAR STRENGTH
PEOPLE "CHEATED BY THE
GOVERNMENT"
TOKIO, September 5. • Baron Reijiro Wakasuki, a member of the House of Peers and a former Japanese Premier, said in a speech: "The Government cheated us at the outset of the war because they told us we had more strength than we actually had. We wanted to fight the United States at the start of the war, and everyone then believed in victory, but now we have no guns, no aircraft, and no men, so we must accept the Potsdam Declaration. We gave money and food for the war, but as the years passed we grew weaker. All we now have to show for these sacrifices is the shame of our defeat."
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 7
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119PRE-WAR STRENGTH Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 7
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