"Such cynical disregard of human values might become Hitler himself. It becomes those leaders of Japan who believe in Germany's star and ere hypnotized by it. That their frenzied finance and bad politics may now push the people to irretrievable disasters means nothing. Germany has spoken. What Germany says fnüst be true.
"It is a solemn thought that not many decades ago great men led Japan to greatness. Mr. Ito, Mr. Yamatata, Mr. Okuma and Prince Saionji were names to conjure with. Such men may have had dreams of empire but they did not suffer the folly of grandeur nor did they seek blindly for imperfect friends. Though in the course of a half century they transformed a feudal state into a modern nation they did not plunge their country into reckless adventure nar. cry "encirclement." They spoke the voice of Japan. That is why Japan then rested on a solid founda-ion. thing. but a short and glorious affair. To explain the prolongation tthe conflict it became necessary to lay the blame on somebody and many were blamed the fashion portraying Great Britain as in the piece.
"But slumbering volcanoes were always there and have been in eruption for 10 years. The forces of restraint have been weakened and the molten tide flows destructively onwards. Will it not sooner or later reach an impenetrable barrier against which it will pile itself in vain? The eruption will then cease and the surface will cool but underneath wil! lie ruins for a thousand years."—
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