"We have...repeatedly declared that we were only opposed to the Japanese militarists and harbored no enmity for the Japanese people.... While we must insist on the strict compliance with the term of the surrender, we must not look forward to retaliation, and much less shall we impose insults on the innocent civilians. We can only sympathize with their plight—coerced and misled as they have been by their Fascist and Nazi leaders, and hope that they will repent of their mistake and sins. If, on the other hand, we attempt to retaliate with atrocity for the past atrocities of the enemy, and repay with insult their mistaken superiority complex in the past, then the spirit of revenge shall be interminably perpetuated—a development far from the intentions of our righteousness-loving Army."
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Military leaders from ChinaHeads of stateChairpersons of KuomintangPresidents of the Republic of China on TaiwanPremiers of the Republic of China on Taiwan
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Chiang Kai-shek, Statements and Speeches by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (August-October, 1945), p. 3.
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Chiang Kai-shek
1912 – 1949
Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975) was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China from 1928 until 1949 in mainland China and then in Taiwan until his death in 1975.
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