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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23257, 19 July 1945, Page 4

“For three-quarters of a century the Japanese have been the problem children of the world, pampered and praised, feared and mistreated, patronised and used to a'hic’.i' our own particular ends,” writes Millie Church Lamott in Harper':. Mar/cyii'“In a certain sense we are responsible for creating their national neurosis. Neglect by the rest o! the world for a lifetime .will be whol( some for all concerned. Their drsivns for military supremacy and imperr i expansion crushed, they should be permitted to live to th -mselvcs until t'i<y discover whether they have hi vthing to contribute to the cull lire and civilisation of the world. The Japanese have had their chance a chance such as few people ever had of becoming a great nation. They lost it by substituting for steady national development, a quick modernisation geared for and steered toward military Aggression They will never regain it The course of history will move on. but. they will not be in the van. Now they will be given another chance, that of becoming a third-rate power If left alone, they ought to be able to achieve it.”