FRAMING THE SURRENDER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 August 1945, Page 4

FRAMING THE SURRENDER

In Manila Japanese envoys have corf erred with General MacArthur's, staff on the surrender terms. The conditions will not be to the Japanese liking and will not conform with their ideas as to what should be imposed on a defeated people. On the other hand they cannot be as extreme as the Japanese would have inflicted on the white people had they won the war in the East. But the enemy has to be taught his lesson. He Waged war deliberately and with the conviction that nothing could stop his war machine once it moved forward in top gear. His arrogance even in defeat is disturbing, and he must be taught that for the defeated who treacherously create war and murder and outrage helpless women and children, there is stern retribution. The enemy's delegation is imposing, as it should be, for these are the Emperor's representatives and the terms presented to them are those the Emperor must obey. The Japanese are not being permitted to forget their crimes in _ the Philippines. The code word given them is Bataan and their telephone was listed under "Bataan 15." That memorable word, and the fact that they met in Manila, which was to have been the centre of the expanded Japanese empire, are a grim reminder that they are delegates of a defeated race.