POSSIBLE PURGE
SPECIAL CABINET MEETING Rec. 11 a.m. TOKIO, Sept. 12. Tlie Japanese Cabinet discussed at a special meeting General Mac Arthur's designation of members of General Tojo's Cabinet as among those to be taken into custody, says the correspondent of the Associated Press.
Well-informed sources said that the meeting might presage a purge and that the Premier was reviewing the present Cabinet to determine if all the members are acceptable to the American forces. One Japanese said: "We feel that all the members of Tojo's Cabinet should have committed suicide after the fall of Saipan. The general opinion is that Tojo failed to fulfil his obligations and honour his responsibility in the method by which he attempted to take his own life." A Japanese intellectual said: "I hope General Mac Arthur's list of war criminals is not intended to be complete, because it ignores most of the principal war criminals. It is a question of face for the Americans to catch all the top men of the war." The Tokio newspaper "Mainichi" says that the general masses are clamouring for Tojo's death.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 64, 13 September 1945, Page 7
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183POSSIBLE PURGE Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 64, 13 September 1945, Page 7
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