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    "ocrText": "Honorable Harry Kuman, Bully the ISA\nToday, Japan would go overwhelmingly communistic rather than\nsubmit to a continuation of the present American policies, provided an\nopportunity for free expression existed.\nThis is common knowledge in Japan, but for some reason SCAP appar-\nently refuses to recognize it. At least, news reports tend to indicate\nthat communism is on the wane, when in fact it is increasing.\nUnless some action is taken to change this American policy in\nJapan, that country will be forever lost to the United States.\nI have tried many times to see General MacArthur and to give to\nhim information which I have acquired, but I have always been denied per-\nmission. I believe he does not like to listen to things unfavorable to\nthe occupation, even though such things might be true. Perhaps that same\nattitude of not accepting unfavorable information ard reports was dis-\nplayed in the Korean situation. It was fairly well known among certain\nJapanese and Chinese circles in Japan that trouble was liable to break\nout in Korea, and more than one Japanese business man asked me if it were\ntrue that the Communists in North Korea were going to invade South Korea\nand whether or not it would be safe to do business with South Korea.\nRúmors of such an invasion were heard as long ago as late spring of 1950.\nDuring that period of time I made two trips to General MacArthur's of-\nfice and was announced to Colonel Bunker, his aide, but after waiting\nin the reception room for more than an hour each time without meeting\nARCHIVES HATIONAL SERVICE\" RECORDS AND\nwith the Colonel, I left.\nThe fact is that the Japanese people are turningaway from the\nUnited States and are joining with the Communists. This is a sad com-"
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