"Bix's remarkable revelation is the degree to which Hirohito was willing to sell out hisown people to savehisownskin, " says Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute in California.
And Mr Trewin lets Clark off far too lightly over his disgraceful role in the Matrix Churchill arms-to-Iraq affair when our hero's dissembling to savehisownskin nearly resulted in the imprisonment of three British businessmen and which did serious damage to John Major's government.