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...Allied order, Shintoism had been disclaimed as Japan's state religion. Hirohito now carried the process a revolutionary step farther. He threw overboard the whole fantastic doctrine that the Japanese people and their ruler are divine, and that they have a divine mission of world conquest. This doctrine, as zealously inculcated as Nazi ideas in Nazi Germany, had been the mainspring for half a century of Kamikaze fanaticism and grandiose visions...
From General Douglas MacArthur came an order: henceforth all "who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest" and all "influential" members of nationalist (or terrorist) societies are to be barred from public office...
...never any question of this nation's forcing Japan to fight. The question was whether this country was willing to sacrifice its principles. To have accepted the Japanese proposal of Nov. 20 ... would have made the United States an ally of Japan in Japan's program of conquest and aggression and of collaboration with Hitler...
...Five hundred Harvard and M.I.T. scientists issued a joint statement: ". . . To keep permanent monopoly of the atomic bomb would require immediate conquest of the world by the U.S. and constant policing by this country of the entire hostile world thereafter...
...ruled that strategic southwestern province of China since 1927. His capital, Kunming, was the biggest U.S. air base in the country, and during the war he had played host to many a U.S. officer and touring bigwig. Last week Chiang deposed the "old dragon" of Yunnan, completing a political conquest of the vast western hinterland...