MACARTHUR’S WARNING
OCCUPATION OF JAPAN MESSAGE - 'TO TROOPS NO UNNECESSARY VENGEANCE New York, Sept. 9 General MacAthur, in a statement to the troops said: 'The occupation of Japan must take place without unnecessary vengeance and undue oppression and Japanese . peoples property and personal rights/must be respected. Looting pillage aim other deliberate violation.*' of the Universal standards of human behaviour would be but a stain on vour own high honour. You won respect on the battlefield at the point of the bayonet. It is the individual responsibility for each of you by your conduct and performance of duty to maintain equal respect as visitors who believe in practising the principle on whicn*\ve fought.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 11 September 1945, Page 5
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