Drawing lessons from the past.

Drawing lessons from the past.
Dec 13, 2007 00:36	#11
YVONNE Points: Join Date: Nov 29, 2004 Status: Offline	Here is an extract from today's news report titled: Chilling message foretold Nanjing Massacre "Today the news from the Far East is worse than ever and I have read your statements as to Japanese brutality. The Japanese ambassador here boasted a day or two ago of his country's having killed 500,000 Chinese people... "This simply means the policy of Mussolini and Hitler is expected to be applied to the world and what a sad result this would be. " That was the chilling confidential telegram sent to then US president Franklin D. Roosevelt by William Edward Dodd, then American ambassador to Germany. It reveals that the killings and rapes the Japanese soldiers committed were not confined to Nanjing; and they had massacred hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians even before the Japanese army occupied the city on December 13, 1937.

Dec 13, 2007 00:36

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Here is an extract from today's news report titled:
Chilling message foretold Nanjing Massacre

"Today the news from the Far East is worse than ever and I have read your statements as to Japanese brutality. The Japanese ambassador here boasted a day or two ago of his country's having killed 500,000 Chinese people...

"This simply means the policy of Mussolini and Hitler is expected to be applied to the world and what a sad result this would be. "

That was the chilling confidential telegram sent to then US president Franklin D. Roosevelt by William Edward Dodd, then American ambassador to Germany.

It reveals that the killings and rapes the Japanese soldiers committed were not confined to Nanjing; and they had massacred hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians even before the Japanese army occupied the city on December 13, 1937.

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