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Quoted in "Red Star Over Malaya" - Page 130 - by Boon Kheng Cheah - History - 2003.
“There is no chance whatsoever of victory; therefore I agree with the foreign minister that the Potsdam declaration should be accepted at once, with only that one condition about retaining the Emperor.”
Quoted in Lester Brooks, Behind Japan's Surrender: The Secret Struggle that Ended an Empire (1968), p. 66.
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