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Who Will Win the Peace ?
We have won the war. But the peace — is it wonderful? A timely note of warning is sounded —
by ROYAL ARCH GUNNISON
(We here reprint a broadcast made by Mutual's news commentator, Royal Arch Gunnison, on the afternoon of Saturday, August 11, just three days before the Japanese officially accepted Allied peace terms. ... To Mr. Gunnison, the Japanese are not strangers. He spent two years in the prison of Santo Tomas; was the last Allied radio correspondent in Manila before its fall. He made the first radio correspondent's eyewitness report on the liberation of Manila on February 4, 1945. Now, in the midst of jubilation, he speaks urgently for caution and vigilance in our dealings with Japan. . . . "It's a time for some prayerful thinking.")
TN the midst of all this excitement over the answer the United States has made to Japan's surrender offer — an answer the United States has made in behalf of all the Big Four — two or three factors stand out. And they must not be overlooked in trying to figure out what the Big Four reply means.
On the surface it looks as though President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes have made a counterprovision for the Japs to accept or reject — a provision that keeps the Emperor on his throne, thus saving face for the Japanese, but taking away all the Emperor's power to govern in Japan.
But examine this closely. Get below the surface. No Japanese is go'ing to quit hating the foreigner as
he does. No Japanese is going to give up the hope or the plan to try this again, regardless of how long it takes . . . and no Japanese is going to see in this surrender anything but a temporary rehnquishment of "surface"
power to the hated foreigner. That's us. No Japanese is going to believe that the real, the motivating power of the Emperor or Emperor System has been high-jacked by the United Nations.
I firmly beheve that the Japanese are quitting at this moment, that they'll accept this latest condition from the Big Four, because they believe they've defeated us by keeping us from landing in Japan and because they have retained the Emperor Sys' tem. This is what they meant when they used to say to me and to the others of us who were prisoners of the Japs . . . "You will win in the fighting . . . but we will win the peace . . . for you are suckers . . ."
We have offered to Japan a situation something like this: It's as though we went into Germany and said to the high Nazis such as Goering, Goebbles, and Himmler . . . "All right, you fellows give up and we'll take Hitler and govern Germany through him. After a reasonable time we'll say to the German