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^0 Swinq ^Pril, 1945
Listeners also learned that in Japan a wife is expected to be respectful, obedient and subservient to her hus' band, that the people feel more harshly toward Communism than they do toward Democracy, that they believe they are descended from the early gods and therefore have a touch of the divine in them.
reason. The Jews were our misfortune. My belief is that our leader, Adolph Hitler, was given by fate to the German nation as our saviour, bringing light into darkness ..."
"We stand between all Europe and the Red Hordes," argued the farmer when soliciting funds and support for the party. "Will you contribute to the cause against Communism?" he asked. "After all, our Hitler is a simple man of the people."
So they planned, so they talked until Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany.
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"Suye Mura," based on a University of Chicago anthropologist's report of life in Japan, went directly into an average Japanese home to analyze the nature of this foe. Professor John Embree visited the mainland in 1935 and spent a year personally observing everyday life in the small village of Suye Mura.
The setting for this program was the household of a typical Japanese farmer. Dramatic passages revealed the interesting and significant knowl> edge that community life in Japan is based upon close cooperation between families.
What "The Human Adventure" illustrates with such programs as these is that v.'ar and hardship do not dim people's interest in other people — even an alien, enemy people. A story about what others do, how and why they do it, still keeps eager ears around cracker barrels all over the world.
That is why, when faced with the task of presenting such a profound subject as the nature of the enemy, "The Human Adventure" forsook the lofty, lonesome plain of the intellectual and let typical German and Japanese people reveal their nature through the things they say and do.
The same question answered in the language of the scholar becomes too complex and too bewildering to hold for long the attention of one who is immediately more concerned with the welfare of a son on the Western front or about how to get enough coal to keep his family warm and healthy next winter.
Contrarily, nothing starts chins wagging and ears wiggling as fast as a human story about someone's experiences, peculiarities of shortcomings.
This is as true in Tokyo or Berlin as it is in Kansas City, Missouri.