THE PEACE IN PREPARATION
. . . THE PEACE IN PREPARATION . . . BITTER bloodshed in strategic areas of the Orient, the continuing collapse of Four Power control of Germany, and Allied discussions of the control and...
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...The Indonesians, he emphasized, wanted to have nothing to do with the Netherlands politically, although they would be willing to negotiate an economic agreement...
...French refusal was part of their consistent opposition to any decrees which would be a step toward the reconstitution of Germany as a nation...
...The agreement, reached at a conference called by the increasingly influential Liberal Chinese Democratic League, came after another week of armed clashes during which Red forces pounced upon a Koumintang force south of Peiping, won a smashing victory, and captured two of Chiang Kai-shek's top field commanders...
...There was renewed fighting, too, in French Indo-China where Annamese Nationalists put up strong resistance to French imperial forces seeking to re-occupy territory south of the capital of Saigon...
...These developments of the past week greatly strengthened the democratic foundation on which we have been building: IGen...
...The de Gaulle regime has insisted that the Four Powers agree to the internationalization of the Ruhr and detaching the Rhineland from Germany before it consents to a central occupation government...
...The French, too, it was reported, have appealed to the British to provide military assistance—in the form of mercenary troops from India...
...Russia's Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov had raised the issue when, in pinch-hitting for Josef Stalin, who has remained out of circulation for some time, he promised the Russian people that they will have atomic energy, "and many other things, too...
...The British commander placed much of the responsibility on the French who have refused to consent to a central administration for Germany...
...Handing over of the know-how of atomic bomb manufacture to the other Powers, especially Russia, would be contingent not only on a willingness to share their secret developments with the others of the Big Five, but also on a promise to work and cooperate closely with a strengthened United Nations organization, according to the inspired press reports...
...5Government control and censorship of the theater ? was ordered ended...
...MEANWHILE, the Allies' other occupation area— Japan—was continuing to make major strides under the unified command of Gen...
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...A Dutch offer to give the Indonesians a measure of home rule was rejected by Dr...
...Heretofore, it has been necessary to submit plays for censorship and obtain licenses for producers and actors...
...4The beginning of the first free election campaign ? in 20 years saw the Peoples, Liberals, and Socialist parties in dominating positions...
...Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of American forces in China, denied U. S. intervention, but conceded that his troops had been caught in minor skirmishes...
...Churchill, especially, pointed out that during the war Britain and the U. S. gave many secrets to the Russians, but the Soviets did not reciprocate...
...Molotov attacked the so-called Western Bloc of nations, and Bevin tartly replied that Britain was suspicious of the Soviet Union's "coming right across the throat of the British Commonwealth...
...Montgomery warned that civilian uprisings may result from the extreme Winter hardships ahead and "may well have a disastrous effect on the recovery of the country...
...Elsewhere in the Orient there was new violence as the native populations sought to_ overthrow .their imperial masters from Europe...
...He promised "free marketing in a state of freedom...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower's repeated warnings that Allied occupation of prostrate Germany may soon lead to mass starvation and rebellion was supported this week by Field Marshal Montgomery, commander of the British zone, when he made the blunt statement that Four P6\ver administration of the conquered, dismembered Reich had fallen far short of being effective...
...THE PEACE IN PREPARATION . . . BITTER bloodshed in strategic areas of the Orient, the continuing collapse of Four Power control of Germany, and Allied discussions of the control and disposition of atomic energy dominated world headlines this week as peace continued to elude a war-weary world...
...The Dutch, he said, had "no moral right to walk into Indonesia to resume their old imperialistic policies...
...MacArthur smashed Japan's four greatest ? financial and industrial families, gave notice of intentions to break up all such combines, and ordered the repeal of all laws fostering monopoly and cartels...
...Soekarno, leader of the independence movement...
...2Japanese government control over labor was or...
...INTER-ALLIED discussions over the control and disposition of the atomic bomb neared a climax this week when Britain's Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee flew to Washington for a Potomac River conference with President Truman...
...HOPE for peaceful settlement of the bitter civil struggle in China was renewed this week when the Chinese Communists announced that they and Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government have agreed to allow the proposed political consultative council to settle "all outstanding issues" when it meets Nov...
...The election will probably be held in January...
...At mid-week, independence leaders, angered by British interference and American acquiescence, appealed to the Soviet Union for support...
...A dope story obviously inspired and planted by British officials announced that Attlee proposed that the deadly secrets of atomic warfare be placed under the control of the Great Power members of the United Nations Security Council in exchange for a Big Five compact pooling of all future scientific discoveries useful in waging war...
...The Communists had complained bitterly that U. S. forces were aiding the Central Government...
...MacArthur announced that he was preparing ? a directive which would free Japan's millions of farmers from virtual slavery...
...The French have also blocked a proposal agreed upon by the U. S., the U.S.S.R., and Great Britain, which would permit German trade unions to amalgamate on a nation-wide basis...
...dered abolished—specifically eight oppressive regulatory laws—and the Japanese were encouraged to enact legislation legalizing unions and activities of union members...
...Administration officials in Washington decided that U. S. Marines should be withdrawn, and first contingents were scheduled to leave for home this week...
...Earlier both Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and former President Truman's position that the secret of atomic bomb manufacture be kept from other nations for the present...
...Douglas MacArthur...
...The British commander issued, an ultimatum ordering the Indonesians in the Soerabaja area to turn over all their weapons to the British, but the natives refused to,comply...
...In the Netherlands East Indies, where the Dutch are too weak to stem the tide to independence, British military forces took command and played an increasingly dominant role in beating down the revolt...
Vol. 9 • November 1945 • No. 46
