Leaflets Not Bombs:
Lesson in Culture the Editor of the "Nonm-Cuma Dany News"
'Sm—What an astounding news item burst upon our eyes this morn-jing: Chinese planes went to Japan, Jand dropped, not bombs, but leaflets is almost too miraculously good to be true that in this world' mad for Jdestruction, one nation has had the insight to seek another way. How {fortunate for the world that in Han-low those who counselled against the Jdropping of bombs won the day, thus [demonstrating forcibly to the world jo culture which it sadly needs. In a Jworld sunk to following policies of realism" "as openly opposed "idealism," here truly is an act synethizing the most practical realism with the most unsullied idealism. It is {0 be hoped that the very natural desire for revenge will not finally Joverbalance this saner policy of attempting to awaken the minds of the Japanese masses by some such means as this.
I should ike to see the planes go again, and here is the message I [should ike to see them carry:
"Our bombing planes are over you They are carrying bombs. At one word of command they can destroy hundreds of you, leaving you torn and mangled as your planes have left Hhundreds of thousands of our people—tathers, mothers, children like yourselves, our only crime that fare Chinese living in our land. That what our bombing planes could ido. But we shall not do so. And why? Because, in the first place, {two wrongs can never make a right, land we refuse, from motives "of revenge, to descend to the level of your militarists, and bomb helpless fathers and mothers and children. In the second place, we feel a vast pity for you, common people like ourselves, for you are helpless slaves fin the hands of your army and navy. You are kept ju such complete ignorance that it is as if you were fotind and deaf, and you are required be dumb. Your government dares not tell you the truth, about China, Jabout the "incident," or about themselves. Why are your newspapers censored, your, radios tuned only to JJapanese voices, your speech watched Jand guarded? Because your govern-Jment does not dare to tell you the truth. "As soon as any offeial has read this leaflet, he will confiscate Jail he can lay hands upon, and punish fany of you he sees reading it. Jdare not let you read it, for if he did, your minds might awaken, and you might begin to demand the truth.
"And $0, out of our profound pity for you, far more slaves even than we to your army and navy, we refrain from killing you, because we believe {that i enough of you begin to want know the truth, your government jean not Jong withstand you, and when you know the truth, you will find [ways of making yourselves free.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.