The Persimmon Tree
“In the community of Asian people there lurks a mutual enemy who has robbed you and exploited you! An enemy who does not belong in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, who is like an army of fleas on a dog’s back, sucking its blood while contributing nothing but disease.
I speak, of course, of the loathsome Chinese, who have forced you into onerous debt and demanded crippling interest so that you are enslaved to them!’ Konoe Akira Colonel, Japanese Imperial Army, 5th Resettlement Batt...alian, Tjilatjap, 1942 ANNA, DESPITE THINKING SHE could not sleep, nevertheless slept the sleep of the dead, too exhausted to remain awake. It is, perhaps, the gift of being seventeen years old, when the body and the brain decide that enough is enough, that despite everything, they will cooperate to shut down for a few healing hours. Young soldiers in the trenches in France during the First World War were said to be able to sleep through a bombardment, their exhaustion masking the fear and quelling the rush of adrenalin brought on by the shells exploding around them.MoreLess
I speak, of course, of the loathsome Chinese, who have forced you into onerous debt and demanded crippling interest so that you are enslaved to them!’ Konoe Akira Colonel, Japanese Imperial Army, 5th Resettlement Batt...alian, Tjilatjap, 1942 ANNA, DESPITE THINKING SHE could not sleep, nevertheless slept the sleep of the dead, too exhausted to remain awake. It is, perhaps, the gift of being seventeen years old, when the body and the brain decide that enough is enough, that despite everything, they will cooperate to shut down for a few healing hours. Young soldiers in the trenches in France during the First World War were said to be able to sleep through a bombardment, their exhaustion masking the fear and quelling the rush of adrenalin brought on by the shells exploding around them.MoreLess
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