WRONG FRAME OF MIND
ALLIES MUST RE CAREFUL POINTED NEWSPAPER COMMENT (Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 16. ' The Times.' in a leader commenting on a Tokio radio statement that the war had been lost through Japanese 'lack of material and scientific strength, which " must be amended," says the Allies cannot fail to take careful notice of the frame of mind in which Japan has surrendered. More significant still were tho terms of Hirohito's personal broadcast to his subjects " Until a change of heart can be wrought in the Japanese peoples themselves, so that they can become immune to the rulers' influence so perversely inspired, the danger of a revival of aggressive designs will remain a reality," said the paper. " Japanese pretence that the atomic bomb caused the surrender will fail as the Japanese people come to realise that their armed forces are thoroughly beaten, not by any single weapon, but by the massed resources of the nations whose sense of justice had been outraged by Japan's own behaviour."
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Evening Star, Issue 25564, 17 August 1945, Page 11
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168WRONG FRAME OF MIND Evening Star, Issue 25564, 17 August 1945, Page 11
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