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EO: How did you feel when the war ended?

SS: Well, since it ended in the total defeat of Japan, I guess I must have looked pretty somber that day. Because where I was working, several friends of mine, particularly those of Italian or German descent, they came up to me to express their sympathy. I thanked them. [Pauses] No, that was a totally useless, needless war. It was just to vent American racial spite on a people who'd refused to knuckle under completely to U.S. demands. I look upon the war with China as largely something indicated... certainly the prolongation of that war in China was something very much desired by the U.S. government, because all that did was to weaken Japan. And I think today, much of the troubles in the Far East... well, this, this kind of troublemaking is something that's been done by all countries to each other. England was a past master at this. That's how they got the name perfide Albion, in order to weaken the strength of any nations that might be possible adversaries of the British government. It was a part of British government policy to foster trouble between other nations. And I'm sure the United States was following the same thing.

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