Japan's Destiny From the Perry Expedition of 1852-1853-1854
Riverdale on Hudson, New York: Published by the author, ©1945. A strange and uncommon pamphlet by the right wing propagandist Frank A. Parker, in which he argues that it was Commodore Perry's expeditions to Japan that transformed that culture from a "Godly nobility class" to a "Godless greedy class." Parker bases his thesis on Francis Hawks' "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan...(1856), and most of the pamphlet and its appendices is derived from that work.
Parker discusses this in the context of the Allies' late-war intent of re-isolating Japan and suggests ironically or seriously that this could be improved by "deporting the 130,000 (plus) Japanese bloods and their mixed marriage relations now in the United States proper, to the Hawaiian islands never to return here under penalty of death such as their nation meted out; confiscate all of their American property other than wearing apparel, as a partial payment on the injury and damage done to us" (p. 2). Parker uses Japan's fall as a lesson to what the UN will do to the US. Parker originally published a condensed version in an issue of his pro-Nazi magazine The Green Mountaineer (Vol. 4, No. 10).
Stapled wrappers (9" x 6"), 48 p. Mimeographed 3x5 order card laid in. A near fine copy. Only two copies in WorldCat (NYPL & National Library of New Zealand). Item #13100
Price: $200.00