{"title":"Faith and Compromise","authors":"A. McDonald, V. McDonald","doi":"10.5810/KENTUCKY/9780813176079.003.0007","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 6 follows Rusch’s work in army intelligence, where he was in close contact with a number of Japanese prime ministers and high officials. Many officials were cooperating with the American effort to ferret out Communists, and Rusch was part of an administration that bent the rules of democracy by supporting pro-American Japanese candidates while hindering their opponents. At the same time, Rusch was working to restore institutions of the Nippon Seikokai, the Episcopal Church of Japan, and he used his authority as an army officer to forward his various projects, including the rebuilding of Seisen-Ryo. He was accused by his superiors of abusing his power to help the church and rebuild the lodge. Rusch covertly aided the heiress Miki Sawada in caring for mixed-race children born of sexual liaisons between Japanese women and Allied personnel, and he routinely raided American supplies to help Sawada feed the displaced children. Rusch also played a minor role in ushering in the McCarthy era in America, providing anti-Communist intelligence to his superiors and helping defend the army and his boss, General Charles A. Willoughby, against charges that Willoughby’s operatives smeared an American citizen as a Communist agent.","PeriodicalId":162519,"journal":{"name":"Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5810/KENTUCKY/9780813176079.003.0007","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Chapter 6 follows Rusch’s work in army intelligence, where he was in close contact with a number of Japanese prime ministers and high officials. Many officials were cooperating with the American effort to ferret out Communists, and Rusch was part of an administration that bent the rules of democracy by supporting pro-American Japanese candidates while hindering their opponents. At the same time, Rusch was working to restore institutions of the Nippon Seikokai, the Episcopal Church of Japan, and he used his authority as an army officer to forward his various projects, including the rebuilding of Seisen-Ryo. He was accused by his superiors of abusing his power to help the church and rebuild the lodge. Rusch covertly aided the heiress Miki Sawada in caring for mixed-race children born of sexual liaisons between Japanese women and Allied personnel, and he routinely raided American supplies to help Sawada feed the displaced children. Rusch also played a minor role in ushering in the McCarthy era in America, providing anti-Communist intelligence to his superiors and helping defend the army and his boss, General Charles A. Willoughby, against charges that Willoughby’s operatives smeared an American citizen as a Communist agent.
第六章讲述了拉什在军队情报部门的工作,在那里他与许多日本首相和高级官员有密切的联系。许多官员都在与美国合作,以搜寻共产党人,而拉什所在的政府通过支持亲美的日本候选人,同时阻碍他们的对手,歪曲了民主规则。与此同时,鲁施正在努力恢复日本圣公会(Nippon Seikokai)的机构,他利用自己作为军官的权力推进了他的各种项目,包括重建震良。他被上级指控滥用职权帮助教会重建分会。拉施暗中帮助女继承人泽田美树(Miki Sawada)照顾日本妇女与盟军人员有性关系所生的混血儿,他还定期袭击美国物资,帮助泽田美树喂饱流离失所的孩子。拉什在美国开启麦卡锡时代的过程中也扮演了一个小角色,他向上级提供反共情报,并帮助捍卫军队和他的老板查尔斯·a·威洛比将军(General Charles a . Willoughby)的特工将一名美国公民诬蔑为共产党特工的指控。