Country the bad dream has been swept away & we are doing our utmost to reconstruct a peaceful Japan in compliance with your country’s friendly consideration. Nevertheless from newspapers & radio talks your country’s tyranny strikes in our heads. Japanese soldiers crushed with rollers; tied with wire & drowned in rivers; sinking of hospital ships; skull so Japanese soldiers sent to girls as presents to be used as paper weights, etc. etc. Such things cannot be wiped out from the memory. Needless to say we feel deep detestation for the savage behavior of Japanese soldiers in the desperate battle (We do not know how to apologize for it). Part of it was due to the direst hatred of some