Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974 Page: 49
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show of force and stuff like that will help. The
Japanese were so small in relationship to a six-footer
that it was awesome.
I saw it; I was there. I remember one day I
watched four Japanese lift a sack of cement, each
Japanese getting hold of a corner in order to carry
it. One of our boys was so amused with it that he
went up to the four Japanese and pushed them away
and took the sack of cement and threw it upon the
truck by himself. Well, this awed the Japanese.
MacArthur knew that this would do it, so he did it.
He laid down as many stringent rules to protect us
I'm grateful to him that he did.
However, it turned out that the Japanese people
had been trained to love their emperor and respect
their emperor. If the emperor had said, "You will
surrender," they did surrender. In my talks with
them, the Japanese people thereafter, it was an
unwanted war in Japan. But the shoguns or whatever
you call them, the higher establishment or whatever
you want to call them, said that you would have it,
and they did it, and they had to go through with it.
It was an absolute surrender. We also found out very
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Green, John Plath. Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974, book, {1976-02-06,1976-03-01}; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944578/m1/50/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.