There is no need to retract. This is not an attack on the American people; fighting imperialist policy is natural for the Socialist Party.
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Response to U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II, who demanded he retract the statement "U.S. imperialism is the common enemy of the Japanese and Chinese peoples." (May 1960, after the forced passage of the revised U.S.-Japan Security Treaty)