Bitterness, hostility, envy, resentment, strife...
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Bitterness, hostility, envy, resentment, strife -- these result in tragic consequences.
Many years ago a man from Japan was sent to America on official business for his government. While here, he walked into a Los Angeles barber shop expecting to have his hair cut. He was told, "This is a white man's shop; we don't cut the hair of foreigners." This brutal act of hostility rankled in that yellow man's soul.
Years later, in October of 1941, this man became the prime minister of Japan. Two months later, on December 7, Japanese bombs began to fall on Pearl Harbor. Under the leadership of this man, Japan had launched full scale war against the United States of America.
And who was this man? Hedeki Tojo. For three long, bloody years he led the Japanese forces in vicious onslaught against the United States, his speeches inflammatory, his methods ruthless. Following the Japanese loss of Saipan in 1944, he resigned his premiership, but as late as April, 1945, he was urging a continuation of all-out war against "the foul demons of the West." It was only after the first atom bombs were dropped in August of that year that Japan finally gave up her desperate struggle.
Make of it what you will; but this much is certain: Hedeki Tojo never forgot the cruel snub he received in that Los Angeles barber shop.
- Mann
Many years ago a man from Japan was sent to America on official business for his government. While here, he walked into a Los Angeles barber shop expecting to have his hair cut. He was told, "This is a white man's shop; we don't cut the hair of foreigners." This brutal act of hostility rankled in that yellow man's soul.
Years later, in October of 1941, this man became the prime minister of Japan. Two months later, on December 7, Japanese bombs began to fall on Pearl Harbor. Under the leadership of this man, Japan had launched full scale war against the United States of America.
And who was this man? Hedeki Tojo. For three long, bloody years he led the Japanese forces in vicious onslaught against the United States, his speeches inflammatory, his methods ruthless. Following the Japanese loss of Saipan in 1944, he resigned his premiership, but as late as April, 1945, he was urging a continuation of all-out war against "the foul demons of the West." It was only after the first atom bombs were dropped in August of that year that Japan finally gave up her desperate struggle.
Make of it what you will; but this much is certain: Hedeki Tojo never forgot the cruel snub he received in that Los Angeles barber shop.
- Mann
