The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
By Drezc Pearson

for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Six weeks after Crews childishly trusting report the moderate" Emperor whom he trusted and stu trusts savagely declared holy war against the United States.
 Despite that grevious error which may have con- tributed to being caught mapping at Pearl Har- bor Ed stettnius later picked Grew to be hts Assist ant Secretary of State, and we have since accepted Crews advice regarding retention of the Emperor
 Note--Some diplomats now point out that with Grew, an official of the U. s. government, making public statements favorable to the Emperor durinl the war, 1t was only natural for the Japanese to accept the bait dangled before them and propose keeping the Emperor. After all, Grew holds the second most important post in the conduct of om foreign. affairs And the Japanese would have been foolish, in view of Crews known views not to have taken advantage of them
 The chief problem facing U.S governors of Japan is how to wean Japanese psychology away from tn. idea that Japan's future only be solved through military aggression Making this conversion with the Emperor still on the throne is going to be difficult because he has been the spearhead of the conquest theory in the past.
 However, the Emperor has not been such sacrosanct institution in the past the Grew school of thought would have us believe Twice curing the there was rebellion against him, suppressed onH. after terrific slaughter Once there was even an at tempt to assassnate Hirohito
 And when the former Mayor of Tokyo, Yujio Ozaki made a speech against the Emperor since Pearl Harbor he was given two-year jail sentence but public sentiment was such that the military did not dare put him in jail Ozah, strong friend of the US.A. and a bitter opponent of the military. was even elected to the Diet in 1942 after Pearl Harbor.
 If U S. government officials are wise they will endeavor to defate the influence of the Emperor in the reverse manner used by the feudal barons and big business leaders to carefully build him up shortly after Commodore Perry opened Japan's doors to the world.
 This column has already told how the Emperors influence at that time relatively nil, but was strengthened partly during the campaign of democ- racy began to emerge in Japan The Peoples Rights Movement" started, followed by the organization of the Liberal Party in 1881.
 This threw the feudal aristocracy into a state of filters and began their careful campaign to wn over the Japanese people to Shintosm and Emperor worship. For time all opposition newspapers were suppressed Japanese history books were rewritten to show that Japanese emperors had ruled in unbroken line since 660 B. c. (which was definitely not tht easel and one of the most intensive propagands campaigns in history put across to sell the Jap anese people on their Emperor and the aristocrat- militarist clique which manipulated the strings be- hind him.
 Shintosm was used on the Japanese people as Hitler used Aryan supremacy on the Nazs; though Emperor worship probably was even more potent.
 Out of all this, emerged the institution of the Emperor of Japan-the most powerful force for internal repression and for external aggression in all history. This is what the American Military Gov ernors of Japan will have to undo They must under mine the influence of the Emperor yet, at the same tne use him to rule Japan. Under this paradoxcal setup, their task obviously will not be- easy.