Possible Explanation Of Japanese Delay
WASHINGTON, August 13. Experts on Oriental affairs have suggested two possible reasons for Japan’s delay'in replying to the Allies—squabbling in the Japanese Cabinet and consultation with field commanders to determine whether Tokio could guarantee their surrender. The possibility that Tokio might be consulting her commanders is suggested by the fact that the Allied terms said that the Emperor would issue orders to lay down arms. Some military experts in Washington are not sure that the troops on by-passed islands and in
isolated strongholds would not fight on fanatically. The Emperor’s as a supreme being might be distinctly tarnished if he could not get the commanders to obey his order.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 192, 15 August 1945, Page 5
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