STIGMA OF LOSING WAR
WILL NOT FALL ON HIROHITO UNDERCURRENT OF FRESH HOPE IN TOKIO (Rec. 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 31. The Japanese War Minister, Tojo, is living quietly in a Tokio suburb. The Domei Agency said: "We do not care much for him any more." It added that tm> stigma of losing the war will not fall on the Emperor, but on the men who directed it. " The Emperor's voice is the people's voice. This saved Japan from internal trouble. Japan is the only country to endure defeat without the threat of revolt."
The Associated Press correspondent said inflation and shortages threaten a slow and painful return to normality. In Tokio living costs have risen 300 per cent, since 1941. All businesses, even hotels, are under strict military control, yet there seems an undercurrent of fresh hope. Educated Japanese talk of a democratic Government under the Emperor. The common people have taken fresh courage from the promise to abolish the dread gendarmerie.
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Evening Star, Issue 25577, 1 September 1945, Page 7
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164STIGMA OF LOSING WAR Evening Star, Issue 25577, 1 September 1945, Page 7
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