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Show Mould Jap Youth for Suicide Attacks The Japanese military command . will have no difficulty in transforming transform-ing its entire air force into suicide pilots, Dr. John W. Stanton, visiting associate professor of political science sci-ence at Northwestern university, now teaching Japanese area characteristics char-acteristics to army officers, declared. de-clared. This apparent willingness to die in battle is the result chiefly of a traditional obedience to authority and a militaristic indoctrination that 1 begins in boyhood, he said. "Throughout grade school and high school the Japanese is given six to ten hours a week of study in a course on 'morals' which teaches him that the Jap soldier must never flee in battle and that his greatest duty is self-sacrifice," he said. "In the course, which is inspired by the militarists, he learns discipline and loyalty to the emperor and to the 'destiny' or expansion of Japan." |