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■Strategy against Japan in world war ■
Senator HICKENLOOPER. Question No.5:Isn't your proposal for sea and air blockade of Red China
the same strategy by which Americans achieved victory over the Japanese in the Pacific?
General MACARTHUR. Yes,sir.In the Pasific we bypassed them.We closed in.You must understand
that Japan had an enormous population of nearly 80 million people,crowded into 4 islands.It was
about half a farm population.The other half was engaged in industry.
Potentially the labor pool in Japan,both in quantity and quality,is as good as anything that I have ever
known. Some place down the line they have discovered what you might call the dignity of labor, that
men are happier when they are working and constructing than when they are idling.
This enormous capacity for work meant that they had to have something to work on.They built the
factories, they had the labor,but they didn't have the basic materials.
There is practically nothing indigenous to Japan except the silkworm.
They lack cotton,they lack wool,they lack petoroleum products,they lack tin, they lack rubber,they lack
a great many other things, all which was in the Asiatic basin.
They feared that if those supplies were cut off, there would be 10 to 12 million people unoccupied in
Japan. Their purpose, therefore, in going to war was largely dictated by security.
Senator HICKENLOOPER. Question No.5:Isn't your proposal for sea and air blockade of Red China
the same strategy by which Americans achieved victory over the Japanese in the Pacific?
General MACARTHUR. Yes,sir.In the Pasific we bypassed them.We closed in.You must understand
that Japan had an enormous population of nearly 80 million people,crowded into 4 islands.It was
about half a farm population.The other half was engaged in industry.
Potentially the labor pool in Japan,both in quantity and quality,is as good as anything that I have ever
known. Some place down the line they have discovered what you might call the dignity of labor, that
men are happier when they are working and constructing than when they are idling.
This enormous capacity for work meant that they had to have something to work on.They built the
factories, they had the labor,but they didn't have the basic materials.
There is practically nothing indigenous to Japan except the silkworm.
They lack cotton,they lack wool,they lack petoroleum products,they lack tin, they lack rubber,they lack
a great many other things, all which was in the Asiatic basin.
They feared that if those supplies were cut off, there would be 10 to 12 million people unoccupied in
Japan. Their purpose, therefore, in going to war was largely dictated by security.
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