In an English-language broadcast from Japan, Premier Admiral Kantaro Suzuki was quoted as saying, “I must admit that Roosevelt’s leadership has been very effective and has been responsible for the Americans’ advantageous position today. For that reason I can easily understand the great loss his passing means to the American people and my profound sympathy goes to them.”
After having observed the customary period of noncommittal silence, waiting for instructions from Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi press fired its guns today at Franklin D. Roosevelt, calling the late President a war criminal and his death divine justice and a miracle of the same sort that allegedly saved Adolf Hitler from the July coup attempt on his life.
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Though to be fair the Japanese were hoping the American juggernaut would just pack it up and go home now that their “Emperor” died, so they weren’t honoring him so much as drawing attention to his death as a way to sabotage morale.
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In an English-language broadcast from Japan, Premier Admiral Kantaro Suzuki was quoted as saying, “I must admit that Roosevelt’s leadership has been very effective and has been responsible for the Americans’ advantageous position today. For that reason I can easily understand the great loss his passing means to the American people and my profound sympathy goes to them.”
After having observed the customary period of noncommittal silence, waiting for instructions from Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi press fired its guns today at Franklin D. Roosevelt, calling the late President a war criminal and his death divine justice and a miracle of the same sort that allegedly saved Adolf Hitler from the July coup attempt on his life.
Though to be fair the Japanese were hoping the American juggernaut would just pack it up and go home now that their “Emperor” died, so they weren’t honoring him so much as drawing attention to his death as a way to sabotage morale.
Or so I’ve read.