CHINA URGES REPUBLIC IN JAPAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 2

CHINA URGES REPUBLIC IN JAPAN

“When Japan is finally occupied and the Emperor deposed and banished it will devolve upon the United Nations, and principally upon the U.S.A. and China, to set up organs of control and advice whereby democratic institutions will be introduced and developed in a country which has suffered so long from the distorted precepts of militarism, Tennoism, and fascism. The task will be enormous and difficult, but unless it is done the victory would not be decisive and durable. “It may be objected on the ground of the Atlantic Charter that' to impose a republican-democratic form of government on Japan would be interference with the domestic affairs of the vanquished. Meddling with the domestic politics of a foreign State with whom we are at peace would be highly objectionable and could find no justification. But destroying the root and branch of jingoism and militarism in an enemy State in order to ensure peace and prevent future war is, on the contrary, highly desirable.”— (Dr. Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan of the Chinese National Government, and son of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China.)