KONOYE’S MEMOIRS
EMPEROR WANTED PEACE ARMY HAD FREE REIN UNDER Tlffi SYSTEM Recd. 6 p.m. * Tokio, Dec. 20 Prince Konoye’s memoirs, which are now in the hands of the chief war crimes prosecutor, state that there was no doubt of the Emperor’s sincere wi hat all times for peace. They condemn Japan’s sysem of government, which permitted free rein to the army. “\/hile the Government was carrying on negotiations wi h all its might, the army was pushing ahead with its war preparations, but the Government did not know what the preparations were,” it is s ated. The movement of ships and mobilisation moves became known in the United States, creating doubt in the United States of the sincerity of ihe negotiations. The army wanted war and the navy would not, or could not, oppose the army. The Emperor remarked to me, ‘it is regrettable about the army.’ ” Konoye commented in his memoirs on the fact that the Emperor rarely voiced an opinion to the degree it might be thought. He was too he itan . Konoye added: ‘‘Although it was proper that the Emperor should be passive in peace time, such passivity when the country was standing at the crossroads of peace or war led to extreme difficulties.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 302, 22 December 1945, Page 5
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