Evening star., 1945-08-21
laps Get First News
OF Emissaries' Trip
To Arrange Surrender
ss the Associated Press.

Rs the Associated Press.
The Japanese were told today by
two of their most powerful dailies
that their future political activity
must follow a path midway between
past power politics" and con-
temptuous "currying of favor" with
the Allies.
The people also were told, for the
first time, the Emperor had sent
surrender emissaries to Gen. Mac
Arthur's headquarters in Manila.
The disclosure was made in an i'm
perial announcement of the return
of 1t. Gen. Takashiro Kawabe's
party to Toyko. The announce
ments invariably are made public.
The Tokyo newspaper Mainichi in
an article entitled BE Prepared to
Face Cold Facts" said that Japan's
affairs in the future will be ruled
by the "one-sided voice" of the
Allies. and that even If Japan's
wishes are overruled, she cannot
make a single complaint"
Surrender Confirmed.
The article explained that "un-
conditional surrender means the de-
feated nation accepts all of the con-
queror's terms"
I'VE must quietly realize the
tragedy that Japan has been
stripped bare and must begin
anew" Mainichi concluded.
Mainichi carried on it's front page
three pictures of the devastation
caused by the second atomic bomb
at Nagasaki. important Southeastern
Kyushu naval staging base. The
Tokyo radio reported one showed
the center OF the once thriving city
has been turned into vast devas-
tation with nothing left except rub
BILE as far as the eyes could see"
| A second photograph depicted
the tragic scene 10 miles away
from the center Of the atomic air
attack where farmhouses are either
crushed down or the roofs torn
asunder. The third showed the
ghastly scene" at Nagasaki with a
horse crushed beneath a wrecked
building
"Nagasaki is now dead city, all
areas being literally razed to the
ground. Only a few buildings are
left, standing conspicuously from
the ashes" the photographer was
quoted as saying.
Mainichi and the Nippon Times
were the two newspapers which out
lined for Japan its political course.
Since our endeavors to build up
Japan based on sheer might met
with complete failure, we must
henceforth tread the path of a
peaceful nation" observed Mainichi
| The Nippon Times noting plans
for revival of intense political &C
tivity" already are under way, OBJ
served:
IF the trend is toward a political
motive OF currying favor with the
Allied powers and If there is any
conscious design to shorten the pc
riod of Allied military occupa ton,
the result will be unfortunate.
New System Urged.
"A new political system must be
established in Japan, but it must
be system evolved sincerely and
soundly as a natural development
spring from the real life of the Jap
anese people. Anything else would
only invite suspicion and contempt"
The editorials and the imperial
announcement were broadcast by
the Japanese Domei news agency
and the Tokyo radio and recorded
by the FEC, which also heard a
Domei announcement that a special
Office of the Finance Ministry had
opened today to deal with urgent
postwar financial problems in the
empire.
In lighter vein Domei reported
the people already are turning to
the brighter things in life" as
evinced by the girls at the Morinaga
candy factory which during the war
turned out food concentrates for
the japanese armed services.
Now from their delicate hands
will come drops of caramels. biscuits
and other edibles to help bring new
enlightenment to the hearts of the
people," said the news agency.