COUSENS’ CHARGES

Grey River Argus, 13 September 1946, Page 5

COUSENS’ CHARGES

AGAINST JAP WITNESSES (Rec. 8.40.) SYDNEY, Sept. 12. Major Charles Hughes Cousens said in the Central Court to-day that, in writing commentaries, he had adopted a dignified style, thinking that it would create antipathy in the minds of outside listeners. He had often used the obvious lie that the Americans started the Pacific war, because he knew that no one outside of Japan would believe it. The Japanese had told him, on many occasions, that they were dissatisfied with, his broadcasts. He described the Japanese witness Niino, as “a rabbit who would go whichever way the stream went.” He said Niino whom the Japanese female witness . Saisho had described, under oath, as a decent. kind man, was in reality a cold blooded, treacherous, savage. He thought Miss Saisho was a Kempei Tai agent, and he tried to deceive her at Radio Tokio by flattering her intellectual ability. He said he believed that if the peace offer made to Japan in 1945 had been made a year earlier, there would have been a revolution in Japan.