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Study Time

Rita’s History Lesson

by Judith G. DeCosta
Rita loved her history classes. She always paid full attention to whatever Mrs. Khan, her teacher, said and always found it all so Interesting. She would be given special assignments, for her enthusiasm for the subject did not go unnoticed. Her latest was to research into Japan's role in World War II. So, as soon as class was over that day, off she went to the library to see what she could find on the assigned
Japan, she read, was highly successful in the first few years of the war. It found an opportunity to rule the East with the outbreak. Invading British territory at Hong Kong. Singapore. running In as far as Burma, which was so close to India. Fancy the Japs ruling India, Rita mused to herself. Manila was occupied in January. 1942, Singapore tn February and Rangoon In March.
tured Burma, the Americana the Philippine islands. Oh. poor them, thought Rita as she read on. Well, you can't win them all. can you ?
Owing to the taking over of Western-occupied territories by the Japanese, they had now become the West's worst enemies. They were bombarded by bombs released from aeroplanes and were additionally jeopardized owing to their fuel transport dilemma : all fuel had to be carried by ships which were being blown up I To add to this catastrophe came a greater blow,. so to speak, when on the 6th of August. 1945. Hiroshima. Japan's great military station, was bombed by the world's first, thankfully last, ever so famous atomic bomb. Thousands of people were killed by the explosion itself and many more killed because of its chemical — rather physl cal — potential. Rita knew that till today, the effect of the great mushroom cloud hung heavily over Hiroshima — all of Japan, for that matter, and for one Instant. she hated mankind and its Inventive brain
More was yet to come for this HI fated nation. The Soviet Union declared war on the 8th of August and entered the province of Manchuria the
next day. That day. Nagasaki was almost totally obliterated by a second atomic bombing This proved to be too much for even the mighty Japanese to handle and so they began contemplating a surrender. They had stood up during the outbreak of World War II to try and set how they could expand their empire. Now. after losing much of what they had re cently captured, the homeland itself was in the danger of being either wiped out or conquered. whichever would come first I They had had their share of "fun", bombing Pearl Harbour at Hawaii on the 7th of December. 1941, but paid for that by the Hiroshima tragedy. Thus, the government tried to base surrender conditions. under conditions which would not show them forsaking their pride as fighters, with the allies, of course with the whole hearted hope that those would be accepted by the allies. They were I The people's conditions were compromiseable and the Pacific war came to an end on the 14 th of August
The atomic bombing. Rita understood, along with the Soviet entry was what prompted the Japanese to draw their peace conditions. They must have been aware of their poor position when the
allies brought on a submarine blockade, thought Rita as she was collecting her notes and getting ready to leave. Not only that, but they were In quite a hopeless position when merchant ships were being sunk I Poor, poor them, thought Rita, leaving the library
Japan remained under the control of the Americans, during which time they helped them repair all the damage the war had caused. The Japanese were forced Into surrender but so what ? Their defeat meant that the countries they would have ruled had a chance to start over and rebuild themselves as independent nations, as Burma and what Is today known as Sri Lanka did. Well, as I said before, you win some and you lose some I
A father read that a middle aged man should not shovel wet snow because he could have a heart attack. So he said to hit teen-ager. "Son. I shouldn't be shovelling wet snow Would you do It for me ?" The son said yes. He'd do it immediately, and the father had a heart attack I