THE PEACE IN PREPARATION

...American warships and planes were on hand in great strength to see that there was no tampering with surrender terms which make Emperor Hirohito the virtual messenger boy of Gen...

...Then will come the hope of lasting peace between peoples of the earth, a peace based upon mutual faith and ideals that will best serve the advancement of the human race, and finally upon realization that only through peace may mankind find progress, happiness, arid his very survival...

...After receiving the honorary degree of doctor of laws, the American commander said: "The struggle is now over...

...This Soviet agreement seemed to strike a mortal blow at China's Communist regime at Yenan, and it certainly caught completely unawares Soviet sympathizers throughout the world who have been denouncing the Chungking Government as "fascist," etc...

...THE formal end of hostilities in the Pacific by no means ended political warfare among the Allies...

...Secretary of State James F. Byrnes hailed the decision as a step toward providing later "a fully representative government" for the Bulgarian people...

...Asiatic territory now occupied by the Western Powers remained a knotty problem...

...Members of Gen...

...Some indication of the future American attitude in the Far East was available last week when Gen...

...Now we have to organize the world to conform to the principles for which we all fought...

...Charles de Gaulle, president of the Provisional French Republic, arrived in the United States this week for a round of conferences with President Truman and other American officials...

...UNDER the treaty, Russia promises to withdraw from Japan's stolen empire of Manchuria within three months after Japan's formal surrender, to keep hands off China's internal affairs, and to avoid interference in the internal affairs of Sinkiang province, between Mongolia and Tibet, which embraces Chinese Turkestan...

...China seemed on the verge of bloody civil war until the announcement this week of the terms of the Russian-Chinese treaty appeared, at least for the moment, to ease the tension...

...Byrnes made it clear that Russia, Britain, and the United States unanimously supported the decision of Bulgaria to delay the election1...

...Britain's Labor Government seemed just as determined, for instance, on re-annexing Hong Kong as was Winston Churchill's Tory regime...

...The American and British Governments had protested vigorously that the elections would have been neither democratic nor representative as a result of the Hague-like tactics being used by the Soviet-dominated ruling clique...

...Moscow agreed to give its support to China solely through the Chungking Government of Chiang Kai-shek, which is recognized as the sole legal authority in China...

...In this immense task, the United States will have to play the leading part...

...MacArthur, supreme commander for the Allies...

...In a statement to the American people, Gen...

...de Gaulle's party revealed this week that the French Government is planning to use one million German prisoners of war for two years in reconstruction of its devastated cities and lands...

...Although the official Soviet press denounced Anglo-American protests, the Kremlin yielded to the strong stand of Washington and London and agreed to the postponement of the election...

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...MacArthur delivered a significant 10-minute speech at Santo Tomas University, in Manila, oldest college under the American flag...

...OVER in Europe, a major diplomatic crisis among the Big Three was temporarily averted when the provisional government of Bulgaria postponed the general election scheduled for last Sunday...

...This extensive use of what is tantamount to slave labor will be required, the French explained, as a result of the population decline of 1,500,000 brought about by the war and a low birth rate...

...The announcement led Indian newspapers to publish banner headlines such as "Labor's First Gesture to India," "First Step Of Labor Government To Resolve The Indian Deadlock...

...Christianity, democracy, and the essence of western culture have survived and the East is about to be opened to an enlightening age wherein its peoples progressively may attain that higher degree of human dignity which the war has been fought to preserve...

...de Gaulle said that without them, "led by your great Presidents—Roosevelt and Truman—there would have been no future for Europe or Asia, but intolerable servitude...

...The cause of right and justice has prevailed...

...s There was new hope of a settlement of the India problem, however, when it was announced in London that Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, had been summoned back to London to discuss new steps for reaching a solution...

...The final disposition of Burma, Korea, Hong Kong, and other...

...Thus to mankind some day will come a realization that the same sun with which the Creator in His infinite wisdom has endowed all the peoples on earth gives light and warmth to the entire universe—both the East and West—and all hesitance against assimilation of the cultural strength of one by the other will eventually disappear...

...Douglas MacArthur, moved to take control of the islands...

...Russia and China agreed that the Manchurian harbor city of Port Arthur will be used jointly by the two nations as a naval base, that the Manchurian city of Darien be established as a free port, open to all nations but administered by China, that the Chinese Eastern and Southern Manchurian railroads be operated jointly by Russia and China, and that the future of Outer Mongolia be determined by a plebiscite...

...They will find a blend between the culture of the East and the culture of the West which best suits their character and divergent philosophies of life...

...Prime Minister Attlee told a cheering House of Commons that British forces were1 preparing to occupy Hong Kong and restore British administration in that Crown Colony wrested from Chink a century ago...

...Terms of the 30-year Russo-Chinese pact of friendship and alliance came as a surprise to the world...