Shigemitsu Aoi came to the Lion City with the purpose of seeking better conditions for surrender. This purpose has now been completely shattered. Shigemitsu Aoi was also coerced and induced by Angel to testify in the International Court of Justice as a Class A war criminal.
MacArthur went to Japan to gain political points. As the first senior Allied general to arrive in Japan, his name frequently appeared in the newspapers during this period, which enhanced his sense of presence.
According to the agreement with the Japanese government, the Allied forces will hold a surrender ceremony on September 2. At MacArthur's strong request, the surrender ceremony will be held on the USS Missouri battleship.
The battleship "Missouri" is the fourth of the United States' "Iowa" class battleships. It was commissioned in June last year and arrived in the Western Pacific in January this year, becoming the flagship of Vice Admiral Mitchell's fast aircraft carrier task force.
After Japan surrendered, the United States suspended subsequent battleship construction plans. If nothing else, the "Missouri" will be the last battleship in service in the United States and possibly the world, becoming the swan song of the battleship.
Americans still attach great importance to the surrender ceremony. On the morning of the 1st, the U.S. military held a rehearsal of the signing ceremony on the battleship "Missouri". Dozens of sailors acted as distinguished guests attending the ceremony and rehearsed the ceremony for the next day on the starboard open deck.
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It was a cloudy day with dense clouds on the 2nd, and the weather was not good, but it did not affect people's mood. MacArthur came to the battleship "Missouri" early to wait for the ceremony to begin. He was so nervous that he was in the bathroom of the captain's room.
Vomited and vomited out all the breakfast he had just eaten.
As the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces in East Asia, Angel did not attend the surrender ceremony. This was not an intentional neglect by Angel, because the Japanese emperor and prime minister also did not attend.
The reason why the Emperor did not attend the surrender ceremony was that he was ill. It is hard to say whether he was ill or not. He was certainly in a panic all day long because the Allies have not yet agreed not to put the Emperor on trial.
The reason why the Prime Minister did not attend the surrender ceremony is even more bizarre, because Japan currently does not have a Prime Minister.
When Hirohito issued the "End War Edict", the Prime Minister of Japan was Suzuki Kantaro. Three hours after the "End War Edict" was announced, Suzuki Kantaro voluntarily resigned, and Prince Higashikaru Miyazaki took over as Prime Minister.
Prince Higashino Miyazaki is a member of the royal family and has a transcendent status in Japan. He is also the only prime minister in Japan who comes from a royal family.
Prince Higashino Miyazaki was ordered to deal with the crisis in the hope that he would be able to clean up the mess and get the millions of Japanese troops involved to lay down their arms and surrender.
This task was obviously not completed, because after the "End War Edict" was announced, the Russians did not stop attacking, and the Kwantung Army was being attacked by the Russian army. Therefore, Minoruhiko submitted his resignation on August 30, just like Kantaro Suzuki.
Nian Yan agreed to be prime minister with a condition. His grandfather was responsible for negotiating with the Americans after the Black Ship Incident, and was eventually expelled from the palace as a scapegoat. Nian Yan's first condition was that he could not be held accountable afterwards.
Hirohito agreed to Noshihiko's request and promised to give Noshihiko adequate protection.
Only Hirohito's promise obviously cannot dispel Noshihiko's concerns. Japan has always had a tradition of subordinates overcoming superiors. Even if Hirohito does not kill the donkey, if a drunken and immoral Jiu Mengzi breaks into Noshihiko's house and stabs him, who will Noshihiko look for to reason with?
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Therefore, Nen Yan would not participate in anything like the surrender ceremony, which would obviously be infamy for thousands of years.
Hirohito was also helpless. He picked and chose everyone who was willing to go, but in the end he could only choose Aoi Shigemitsu, who had the most experience in dealing with Western countries.
Shigemitsu Aoi represents the Japanese government and Army Chief of Staff General Yoshijiro Umezu who attended the surrender ceremony on behalf of the Japanese military.
Since neither the Japanese Emperor nor the Prime Minister attended the surrender ceremony, Angel simply did not attend, leaving the opportunity to the eager MacArthur.
Compared with Angel, MacArthur was too eager to attend the surrender ceremony on behalf of the Allies. He prepared many greeting ceremonies for the Japanese delegation and held the surrender ceremony on the battleship "Missouri" to give Shigemitsu Aoi a show of strength.
After the Magic City Incident in 1932, the Japanese army held a victory celebration in Magic City. Aoi Shigemitsu was also present. A bomb dropped by Yoon Bong-gil, a martyr of the Peninsula, blew off her left leg. Since then, Aoi Shigemitsu has used a prosthetic leg.
Today's prosthetic technology is completely incomparable with the 21st century. Aoi Shigemitsu needs to use crutches to assist walking. This does not matter on flat ground, but it is very painful in the narrow passage of a warship.
The Japanese delegation was brought over in a small boat. They first climbed a ladder onto the ship, and then climbed from the first deck to the second floor. They had to pass through several narrow passages along the way.
Aoi Shigemitsu didn't hide it, she moaned in pain every time she climbed a step. Umezu Yoshijiro next to her couldn't stand it and wanted to give Aoi Shigemitsu a hand, but Aoi Shigemitsu refused.
If we don’t sell out badly now, when will we sell out?
Umezu Yoshijiro's mood was even worse. Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has never lost in foreign wars and has been winning for nearly a hundred years. Unexpectedly, the first time it lost, it would lose its pants.
If possible, Umezu Yoshijiro did not want to attend the surrender ceremony, but he was not as tough as Nozhiko, and it was too late to retire now. He could only come to the "Missouri" to accept the humiliation of the Allies.
MacArthur did go too far.
The surrender ceremony is supposed to be a solemn occasion, and it is the most basic requirement to dress up to attend. This is an international etiquette.
Not only did MacArthur not wear a formal dress, but he also did not ask the Allied generals who participated in the ceremony to wear a formal dress. He did not even clear the place and allowed the casually dressed U.S. Navy officers and soldiers to watch. Therefore, when Aoi Shigemitsu was painfully climbing the ladder, she crowded beside the gangway.
On the deck, behind the portholes, and even on the main gun barrel, the laughter of the American soldiers who were densely packed to watch the fun was particularly wanton.
The Japanese delegation has a total of 11 people. In addition to Aoi Shigemitsu and Yoshijiro Umezu, there are also three representatives of the Army, three representatives of the Navy, and three officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Shigemitsu Aoi still attaches great importance to the surrender ceremony, wearing a black top hat, a tuxedo-style three-piece suit, a suit and leather shoes.
Two of his foreign affairs staff also wore formal attire, except for one who, for some reason, wore a rumpled white linen suit.
Umezu Yoshijiro and the other six Japanese officers were all wearing wrinkled military uniforms that had not been ironed and dull and dirty military boots. When they came to stand on the deck, their postures were a little crooked and they had no posture. They were obviously using this.
A way to express dissatisfaction with being forced to participate in a surrender ceremony.
MacArthur did not appear at the surrender ceremony in advance, but asked Aoi Shigemitsu and Yoshijiro Umezu to wait for a while before walking out of the rest cabin with Nimitz and Halsey.
At this time, the band began to play the American national anthem. The laughter of the American soldiers finally stopped, and the scene became quiet and solemn.
MacArthur looked serious. When Aoi Shigemitsu and Yoshijiro Umezu saluted MacArthur, MacArthur did not return the salute.
After the warship chaplain prayed, MacArthur read out the surrender order. After removing the entire paragraph of boasting, only the last sentence was deafening: "I now order the representatives of the Imperial Japanese Government and the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army to sign the surrender document at the designated place!"
On the long table prepared for signing, two surrender documents with the same content but different covers have been prepared. One of them is covered in dark green leather and will be kept by the Allies. The other is covered in cheap black canvas and is for Japan.
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As a representative of the Japanese government, Shigemitsu Aoi first signed the surrender document.
Shigemitsu Aoi, who had just climbed a long flight of stairs, had not yet recovered his breath. He took off his gloves and gloves, and sat down with difficulty holding on to the table. When he was taking out his pen, his cane suddenly fell to the ground. Shigemitsu Aoi wanted to bend down and pick it up.
When he got up, the prosthetic leg made him very uncomfortable and his posture was awkward. The American soldiers who had been quiet around him started laughing again when they saw this scene.
There are whistlers.
Shigemitsu Aoi's mental quality is really good, even if she is teased, her face does not change.
Umezu Yoshijiro and other Japanese representatives were on pins and needles, and every second they spent here made them feel extremely tortured.
A representative from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs finally couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to help Shigemitsu pick up the cane, put away the hat and gloves, and then handed the pen to Shigemitsu.
Shigemitsu Aoi was ready, but she didn't know where to sign, so she didn't start writing.
MacArthur finally couldn't bear it anymore and turned back to his chief of staff Sutherland: "Tell him where the signature is!"
Under Sutherland's guidance, Shigemitsu Aoi finally completed the signing.
When it was Umezu Yoshijiro's turn, the speed was much faster.
Probably Umezu Yoshijiro also wanted to end it all as soon as possible, so he just took off his gloves without sitting down, and just leaned on the long table and signed his name hastily.
Next it was MacArthur's turn to perform.
MacArthur was signing on behalf of the Allies. Before signing, he called Major General Jonathan Wainwright and Lieutenant General Arthur Percival, who had just been rescued from the Japanese prisoner of war camp, to his side to share the glory of this moment with them.
Jonathan Wainwright was MacArthur's assistant when he was the commander-in-chief of the U.S.-Philippine coalition. At the last moment of the Philippine Campaign, MacArthur fled the Philippines and appointed Jonathan Wainwright as the commander-in-chief of the U.S.-Philippine coalition, replacing MacArthur.
When MacArthur fled, he asked Jonathan Wainwright to hold his position and promised to return to the Philippines with reinforcements soon.
For more than three years, Jonathan Wainwright and Arthur Percival were imprisoned by the Kwantung Army and brutally tortured by the Japanese army. When they were rescued, they were as skinny as skeletons and wore the smallest military uniforms.
Still too fat.
MacArthur was indeed good at showing off. He used a total of six pens to sign, two of which were given to Jonathan and Arthur on the spot, and the other four were given to the U.S. National Archives, West Point Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, and his
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After MacArthur signed, Nimitz signed on behalf of the United States. After all the generals from various countries signed, the surrender ceremony ended successfully.
When the surrender ceremony of the "Missouri" was held, Angel had already returned to Pretoria, and he had many problems to report to Rock face to face.
After Roque returned to southern Africa from Potsdam, he officially entered a state of semi-retirement, and would retire completely only when the general elections were held in southern Africa.
There is definitely work to be done, and it will never be finished. The reason why Rock is so free is because he has completed the most important work in advance, and other small things can be dealt with. Rock only needs to make final checks and make sure that he does not make any mistakes in the general direction.
Although Angel has not been with Rock in recent years, her relationship with Rock has remained the same as before. Rock did not treat Angel as an outsider and listened to Angel's report by the lakeside of the Palace of Justice.
"The Lion City must not be handed over to the British. Now that the British have withdrawn from East Asia, there is no hope of coming back. The Malay Peninsula already has its own armed forces. If it doesn't work, just fight a war. The British cannot afford a new war now." Rock.
It's a pity that I didn't end the British Empire with my own hands.
It doesn't matter, there must be something left for Arthur and Gavin to do. The Commonwealth is now only an empty frame, and it will fall down with a slight push. If Arthur and Gavin can't even do this, Rock
The work of the past few decades has also been a failure.
"Britain's problem is not big. Mountbatten has great ambitions and lacks talent. Britain's national power is empty. On the contrary, the United States, like us, is showing increasing aggression in East Asia." Angel attaches great importance to the threat from the United States. Britain has already sunk and is nothing to worry about.
"The United States is fanning the flames of the Lion City. You can go to the Philippines. The Philippines is the Achilles' heel of the United States." Roque suggested that the United States has not completely given up on the Philippines yet.
The current United States, if compared to the United Kingdom, is roughly equivalent to the United Kingdom just after the Second Boer War.
The United States paid a high price for winning World War II, but the gains were not much. It was not proportional to the effort. Not only did it help Russia in Europe, but it now also faces tremendous pressure from domestic economic transformation.
Southern Africa had been preparing for a rainy day more than two years ago and gradually adjusted its domestic economy. Rather than losing orders, it resolutely converted part of its military production capacity into the civilian commercial field. At that time, it caused some controversy.
At that time, there was no sign of the end of the world war, and the demand for military industry in various countries was extremely strong. Most of the orders given up by southern Africa were snatched away by the Americans, which made many southern Africans unwilling to accept it.
It's obvious that the money that can be earned is given to the Americans for free, while oneself has to spend a lot of money to transform. This is not Lao Hutu's fault.
Rock used facts to prove that Southern Africa’s steadfast needle never makes mistakes. Although it made less money at the beginning, it is now able to smoothly carry out economic transformation. Americans were so happy making money back then, but now they are in so much pain.
Roque is the largest arms dealer in southern Africa. Unlike Roque, American arms dealers are absolutely unwilling to see the end of the world war. Therefore, the recent aggressiveness shown by the US military is understandable. Without war, there will be no arms dealers.
living space.
"I have made some arrangements, and Americans should have started to have headaches now -" There is a reason why Angel chose this time to return to southern Africa.
The Philippines today is no longer the Philippines before the war broke out.
After the Japanese army occupied the Philippines, they formed a Filipino servant army numbering in the hundreds of thousands, which completely destroyed the relationship between the United States and the Philippines.
An Qi didn't take action before because the war was not over yet and An Qi wanted to take the overall situation into consideration.
Now that America's attention has completely shifted from the Philippines to Japan, it's time to set fire to America's backyard.
