国家としての「敗戦責任」を問うはある。しかし勝手に始めて勝手に負けやがって庶民にとっちゃ終わってホッとだから「終戦記念日」でいいじゃん。

　逆に言うと、その時の国民全員が「敗戦」と思っていて、一人も「戦争が終わってホッとした」って言う人がいなかったら、全員洗脳カルト状態ってことでそれはそれで気持ち悪いよなぁ、。国民にとっては終わってホッとで「終戦記念日」でも良いんじゃないの。

　なんでこんなことを書いたかと言うと、反戦な家づくりさんが「貴い犠牲なんて無い」で

今日は、敗戦を終戦と言い換えたペテン記念日だ。

って書いている。反戦な家づくりさん以外でも今まで何回か読んだことのある言葉と、論法である。

しかし勝った米国の、8月14日のニューヨークタイムズ記事では「Japan Surrenders, End of War! 」って書いていて、「End of War! 」、終戦って言葉を使ってるんだよね。まあ、見出し全体や記事本文では自分たちが勝ったとは言っているんだけれどね、。「勝つには勝ったが、終わってよかったよ」って感じが「End of War!  」のところににじみ出ている気がします。国民や読者の声を率直に代弁したのだろうけれどね、。

　「敗戦を終戦と言い換えたペテン記念日だ。」こう言う言い方って、左巻き方面と、昔の赤尾敏のような右翼のおっさんには好まれる論法なんだろうね。まあ、思惑は当然違っていて、左巻き方面の場合は、使う言葉によって仲間を確認する見たいなのもあって、「敗戦記念日」と言う言葉を使ったら「おお仲間がいた」みたいな感じがあるのかもね。（笑）

　ＴＢＰ「自民党政治」の１５日から１６日にかけてＴＢしたエントリー中、タイトルが「終戦記念日」あるいは「敗戦記念日」のものを拾ってみました。

※その前に、国家としての「敗戦責任」を問わずに国家を語る愚 [晴耕雨読 から]Date: 2008-08-15 21:19　をご紹介しておきます。

終戦記念日にあたって（１）～平和は６３年の積み重ね＋各党の声明に見る平和の違い [日本がアブナイ！ から]
Date: 2008-08-15 09:06

　

「日本降伏、戦争終結！」【米ニューヨーク・タイムズ紙（1945年8月14日付）】 [どこへ行く、日本。（福田は国民羊化計画と構造改革（＝政財癒着推進→格差拡大）をやめられるのか） から]
Date: 2008-08-15 13:50

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0814.html#article 「日本降伏、戦争終結！」の見出しでアジア太平洋戦争終結を報じる米ニューヨーク・タイムズ紙（1945年8月14日付）

＜今日は何の日＞「日本降伏、戦争終結！」【米ニューヨーク・タイムズ紙（1945年8月14日付）】
http://www.asyura2.com/08/wara3/msg/661.html
投稿者 gataro 日時 2008 年 8 月 15 日 13:47:36: KbIx4LOvH6Ccw

http://ameblo.jp/warm-heart/entry-10127571248.html　から転載。

2008-08-15 13:11:51
gataro-cloneの投稿

　

終戦記念日と各党 [反戦塾 から]
Date: 2008-08-15 17:42

　

終戦記念日にあたって（２）～自民党はもう、平和を願う国民の思いなど考えていない [日本がアブナイ！ から]
Date: 2008-08-15 21:17

　

敗戦記念日に当たって・・「人間の安全保障」を起点に汗を流そう [広島瀬戸内新聞ニュース から]
Date: 2008-08-15 22:59

　

63回目の敗戦記念日に [村野瀬玲奈の秘書課広報室 から]
Date: 2008-08-16 01:23

※下記は、タイトルでは使っていませんが、文中で「終戦記念日」と書いています。
犬や猫も戦争の犠牲になった [人類猫化計画 から]
08/08/16 19:06

※以前のエントリーで、城山三郎さんのまるで遺言のような（なくなる約4ヶ月前です）佐高信さんとの集会での対談の録音と、「旗ふるな、旗ふらすな、旗伏せよ、旗たため、限りある命のために」をご紹介しました。城山さんは広島と呉との中間の山の上の基地で15日を迎えています。佐高の「城山さんは戦争が終わった日のことをすごく空が青かったと書かれていますよね？」に対して「きれいだったですねぇ、、、、、」と返しています（後半の方の音声ファイル、2分あたりから／全10分）。その時の城山さんの胸に去来したのは「敗戦」だったのだろうか、「終戦」だったのだろうか？

※ホーム＆ヒューマン・ナビさんの、2007/08/15　直立不動の少年/終戦記念日に思う 、先日は、ＮＨＫでもこのジョー・オダネルについて放送されました。

　この少年にとっては「敗戦」だったのだろうか、「終戦」だったのだろうか？

写真を撮影した米従軍カメラマン、ジョー・オダネルのコメント：

「佐世保から長崎に入った私は、小高い丘の上から下を眺めていました。・・・１０歳くらいの少年が歩いてくるのが目に留まりました。おんぶひもをたすきにかけて、幼子を背中にしょっています。・・・しかし、この少年の様子ははっきりと違っています。

重大な目的を持ってこの焼き場にやってきたという強い意志が感じられました。しかも足は裸足です。少年は焼き場のふちまでくると硬い表情で目を凝らして立ち尽くしています。

・・・少年は焼き場のふちに、５分か１０分も立っていたでしょうか。白いマスクをした男たちがおもむろに近づき、ゆっくりとおんぶひもを解き始めました。この時私は、背中の幼子がすでに死んでいることに初めて気づいたのです。男たちは幼子の手と足を持つとゆっくりと葬るように、焼き場の熱い灰の上に横たえました。

まず幼い肉体が火に溶けるジューという音がしました。それからまばゆいほどの炎がさっと舞い上がりました。真っ赤な夕日のような炎は、直立不動の少年のまだあどけない頬を赤く照らしました。
　その時です、炎を食い入るように見つめる少年の唇に血がにじんでいるのに気がついたのは。

　少年があまりにきつく噛みしめているため、唇の血は流れることなく、ただ少年の下唇に赤くにじんでいました。夕日のような炎が静まると、少年はくるりときびすを返し、沈黙のまま焼き場を去っていきました。背筋が凍るような光景でした。」

（朝日新聞社写真展コメントより抜粋）

"No More" Joe O'Donnell, August,1995,Hiroshima

No More

As a citizen of the United States of America
I want to express to you tonight my sorrow and regret for the pain and sufferring caused by the cruel and unneccessary atomic bombing of your cities.
I belive it was wrong; morally wrong.
Just as wrong as the holocaust.
It was a crime not just against history but against humanity.
I walked in the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and photographed the children, the women, the elderly, the mutilated and disfigured.
The victims who suffered and died like no other people in the history of the world.
Now, fifty years later I pledge to you that I will not forget waht I saw.
We owe it to those who died to keep their memory alive.
Give their tragic deaths honor by remembering them.
Let them teach us how to respect life.
For them I will continue to speak out and tell the world what it was like in Japan, 1945.
My exhibit will continue to be seen for we cannot, we must not, let any one country become the victim or attacher again.
No more Hiroshimas! No more Pearl Harbors!
No more Nagasakis!
NO MORE!
For peace is the future and without peace
there will be no future.

Joe O'Donnell, August, 1995, Hiroshima

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　以下、8月14日のニューヨークタイムズ記事。

Japan Surrenders, End of War!
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0814.html

Emperor Accepts Allied Rule

M'Arthur Supreme Commander

Yielding Unqualified, Says Truman

Japan Told to Order End of Hostilities, Notify Allied Supreme Commander and Send Emissaries to Him

MacArthur To Receive Surrender

Formal Proclamation of V-J Day Awaits Signing of Those Articles -- Cease-Fire Order Given to the Allied Forces

By ARTHUR KROCK

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES



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Washington, Aug. 14 -- Japan today unconditionally surrendered the hemispheric empire taken by force and held almost intact for more than two years against the rising power of the United States and its Allies in the Pacific war.

The bloody dream of the Japanese military caste vanished in the text of a note to the Four Powers accepting the terms of the Potsdam Declaration of July 26, 1945, which amplified the Cairo Declaration of 1943.

Like the previous items in the surrender correspondence, today's Japanese document was forwarded through the Swiss Foreign Office at Berne and the Swiss Legation in Washington. The note of total capitulation was delivered to the State Department by the Legation Charge d'Affaires at 6:10 P. M., after the third and most anxious day of waiting on Tokyo, the anxiety intensified by several premature or false reports of the finale of World War II.

Orders Given to the Japanese

The Department responded with a note to Tokyo through the same channel, ordering the immediate end of hostilities by the Japanese, requiring that the Supreme Allied Commander- who, the President announced, will be Gen. Douglas MacArthur- be notified of the date and hour of the order, and instructing that emissaries of Japan be sent to him at once- at the time and place selected by him- "with full information of the disposition of the Japanese forces and commanders."

President Truman summoned a special press conference in the Executive offices at 7 P.M. He handed to the reporters three texts.

The first- the only one he read aloud- was that he had received the Japanese note and deemed it full acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, containing no qualification whatsoever; that arrangements for the formal signing of the peace would be made for the "earliest possible moment;" that the Japanese surrender would be made to General MacArthur in his capacity as Supreme Allied Commander in Chief; that Allied military commanders had been instructed to cease hostilities, but that the formal proclamation of V. J. Day must await the formal signing.

The text ended with the Japanese note in which the Four Powers (the United States, Great Britain, China, and Russia) were officially informed that the Emperor of Japan had issued an imperial rescript of surrender, was prepared to guarantee the necessary signatures to the terms as prescribed by the Allies, and had instructed all his commanders to cease active operations to surrender all arms and to disband all forces under their control and within their reach.

The President's second announcement was that he had instructed the Selective Service to reduce the monthly military draft from 80,000 to 50,000 men, permitting a constant flow of replacements for the occupation forces and other necessary military units, with the draft held to low-age groups and first discharges given on the basis of long, arduous and faithful war service. He said he hoped to release 5,000,000 to 5,500,000 men in the subsequent year or eighteen months, the ratio governed in some degree by transportation facilities and the world situation.

The President's final announcement was to decree holidays tomorrow and Thursday for all Federal workers, who, he said, were the "hardest working and perhaps the least appreciated" by the public of all who had helped to wage the war.

Mr. Truman spoke calmly to the reporters, but when he had finished reading his face broke into a smile. Also present were Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's personal Chief of Staff, and two other members of the Cabinet- Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Commerce, and James V. Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy- managed to respond to a hurry call in time to be there. The agreement to issue the statements simultaneously in all the Allied capitals, and the brief period between the call to the Cabinet and the announcement, were responsible. Later the chief war administrators and Cordell Hull, former Secretary of State, arrived to congratulate the President.

President Addresses Crowd

After the press conference, while usually bored Washington launched upon a noisy victory demonstration, the President with Mrs. Truman walked out to the fountain in the White House grounds that face on Pennsylvania Avenue and made the V sign to the shouting crowds.

But this did not satisfy the growing assemblage, or probably the President either, for, in response to clamor, he came back and made a speech from the north portico, in which he said that the present emergency was as great as that of Pearl Harbor Day and must and would be met in the same spirit. Later in the evening he appeared to the crowds and spoke again.

He then returned to the executive mansion to begin work, at once on problems of peace, including domestic ones affecting reconversion, unemployment, wage-and-hour scales and industrial cut-backs, which are more complex and difficult than any he has faced and call for plans and measures that were necessarily held in abeyance by the exacting fact of war.

But certain immediate steps to deal with these problems and restore peacetime conditions were taken or announced as follows:

1. The War Manpower Commission abolished all controls, effective immediately, creating a free labor market for the first time in three years. The commission also set up a plan to help displaced workers and veterans find jobs.

2. The Navy canceled nearly $6,000,000,000 of prime contracts.

The Japanese offer to surrender, confirmed by the note received through Switzerland today, came in the week after the United States Air Forces obliterated Hiroshima with the first atomic bomb in history and the Union of Soviet Republics declared war on Japan. At the time the document was received in Washington, Russian armies were pushing back the Japanese armies in Asia and on Sukhalin Island, and the Army and Navy of the United States with their air forces- aided by the British- were relentlessly bombarding the home islands.

When the President made his announcements tonight it was three years and 250 days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which put the United States at war with Japan. This was followed immediately by the declarations of war on this country by Germany and Italy, the other Axis partners, which engaged the United States in the global conflict that now, in its military phases, is wholly won.

If the note had not come today the President was ready though reluctant to give the order that would have spread throughout Japan the hideous death and destruction that are the toll of the atomic bomb.

Officially the Japanese note was a response to the communicator to Tokyo, written on behalf of the Allies Aug. 11 by Secretary Byrnes, which was itself a reply to a Japanese offer on Aug. 10 to surrender on the understanding of the Japanese Government that the Potsdam Declaration did not "prejudice the prerogatives" of the Emperor of Japan as its "sovereign ruler."

Plan on the Emperor

Mr. Byrnes wrote, in effect, that the Japanese might keep their Emperor if they chose to do so of their own free-will, but that he would be placed under the authority of the Allied Commander-in-Chief in Tokyo and would be responsible to that commander for his official and public activities.

Relief rather than jubilation that the grim and costly task of conquering the Axis is done was the emotion of the officials, from the President down, who have traversed the long and agonizing road to victory since Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor while Tokyo's "peace" envoys- Admiral Kichisahura Nomura and Ambassador Saburo Kurusu- were still continuing their negotiations with Secretary of State Hull. The road is piled high with the bodies of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians who gave their lives that the victory might be attained.

And, in a solemn hour of triumph, the men in Washington that were their military and civilian commanders could not be jubilant in the lasting memory of these human sacrifices. On the contrary, they seemed more than ever resolved to produce a system of world security which for a long time would obviate the necessity of such sacrifices to dictators and aggressive nations; and to impress on the Japanese- as on the Germans- their crimes, nor relax their punishments, until they learn to follow the ways of peace.

Though the victory over the Japanese as well as the Nazis had always seemed assured to the American authorities, it did not become a certainty until the Allies- through United States invention and production, Allied military and scientific skills and the fortitude of the British, Chinese, Russian and American populations- were able to change from defense to attack. This change, so far as the Pacific was concerned, came after the Battle of Midway gathered force after the actions of the Coral Sea and the Philippines and came to crescendo with the captures of Saipan, Iwo Island and Okinawa, the perfection of radar and the discovery and use of the atomic bomb. But before these successes the story was very different.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor found the Pacific Fleet divided, half of it crowded in the roadstead, the other half dispatched for Atlantic service for reasons of policy. These reasons grew out of President Roosevelt's decision that the Nazi menace required the fleet diversion to the Atlantic for immediate national defense, and out of his belief that, as he expressed it, he could "baby along Japan." This latter view was the foundation of the underlying policy by which the United States continued to furnish Japan with scrap iron, petrol, ant other materials transferable to war uses long after Japan by many officials was conceded to be bent on hemispheric and eventual world-wide aggression.

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陰謀リテラシーかく乱にトンデモを混ぜるのはあるかもネ（政治に陰謀・謀略はつきもの。最近の闇雲否定論者は工作員かな？）
雑談日記作。（＾＾；（笑）

　代表的な検索エンジン8個で「自民党政治」と検索すると、自End！ＴＢＰ「自民党政治」はすべて１位か３位、つまりトップ頁です。

以下のトラックバック・ピープルに参加してます。

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※自Endライブを表示する方法（詳細な説明）。

※爪ヤスリなら日本の職人さんのいいのをお勧めします。（関連投稿）
↓下の広告は単にブランド好きの方向けです。