THE PEACE IN PREPARATION
• • • THE PEACE IN PREPARATION • • • ALTHOUGH the nation's press used blown-up headlines to ballyhoo the Nurenberg trials of the Nazi war criminals as the top world news of the week, no...
...Jackson, in a four-hour opening address, described America's attitude toward the German people as being neither hateful nor fearful, but as appreciative of their plight as the first victims of the Nazis...
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...1 the payment of any discharge allowances or service pensions to Japanese veterans "excent compensation for physical disability limiting the recipient's ability to work...
...In his daily column in the Washington Star, Con-stantine Brown, well-informed analyst of foreign affairs, reported last week that the White House and State Department have been deluged with confidential messages from abroad in recent days...
...U. S. Marines, caught in the middle, will stay in North China, the State Department announced, to fulfill our promise to Japan that we would help get Japanese troops back to their home islands...
...De Gaulle's new cabinet won a unanimous vote of confidence in the constituent assembly...
...A political crisis developed in Italy when the Liberal Party and the Christian Democratic party decided to quit Premier Parri's National Liberation Committee government...
...The Indonesian freedom forces fought on grimly, despite reported casualties in excess of 30,000...
...Douglas Mac-Arthur issued a stern "war does not pay" directive ordering the Japanese Government to tax away the war profits of all Nipponese firms and individuals and impose a capital levy ranging up to 70 per cent on corporate and private fortunes—including the imperial household...
...Karl Renner, provisional premier, finished a close second...
...Charles de Gaulle rode out a political crisis precipitated by Communists and emerged as the leader of a strong government coalition...
...The supreme American commander notified the Japanese that "certain Japanese interests have used unjustified and aggressive war to enrich themselves illegally for many years...
...Such a course, MacArthur said, would "result in a more equitable distribution of wealth than Japan has ever had...
...Oil-rich Iran presented a new problem as its northern province, Azerbaijan, launched what the Iranian Government claimed was a Soviet-inspired revolt...
...The break-up of the ruling coalition was expected to result in Parri's resignation and an attempt to form a new government...
...More than 30 American GI's were injured in the riots...
...1. Capital Levy For Japan American-occupied Japan continued to set an example for the rest of the world...
...Trial Of Nazi Leaders The Nurenberg trials of the Nazi war criminals moved through their second week with the prosecution offering a multitude of documents to confirm what the world knows—that Adolf Hitler and his ganp were a ruthless, brutal, bigoted mob of international gangsters...
...Negotiations between the new Indonesian Cabinet and the Dutch appeared to have broken down completely...
...A new crisis developed in India where bloody rioting broke out in Calcutta and Bombay in protest against the trial of Indian officers who fought with the Japanese during the war...
...World News Notes: Austria's first free election in 14 years resulted in a smashing defeat for the Communists, who failed to capture a single seat in the new parliament...
...MacArthur also struck directly at the military system by ordering the Japanese Government to end by Feb...
...In China the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek were fighting it out with the Chinese Communists in a new struggle for control of Manchuria...
...They are said to contain the same tale of woe—of open or brewing civil wars, of discarded pledges given smaller nations and of the weakened structure of the United Nations Security Organization...
...No splashing of circus headlines could gloss over the fact that relations between Soviet Russia and her Western Allies are more strained than at any time since the war ended...
...He admitted the tribunal is a juridical experiment and novelty, but lauded it as a potential instrument to protect world peace...
...THE PEACE IN PREPARATION • • • ALTHOUGH the nation's press used blown-up headlines to ballyhoo the Nurenberg trials of the Nazi war criminals as the top world news of the week, no amount of suppression and concealment could befog the fact that the world's current ills are far more important and far more explosive than the trial of the 20 indicted Nazi gansters...
...You will demonstrate to all Japanese that war is financially unprofitable, by insuring that the tax includes the period not only dating from the perfidious attack on Pearl Harbor, but includes the period prior to that date to the maximum extent possible...
...Incomplete returns indicated that the People's Party polled the biggest vote, while the Social Democratic party of Dr...
...Russian troops are stationed in the province and have reportedly refused free passage to Iranian troops seeking to put down the rebellion...
...In Indo-China, native independence forces were again locked in combat with French imperial forces, aided by the British...
...Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, the American prosecutor, launched his presentation of evidence designed to show that the 20 indicted Nazi leaders engaged in a conspiracy against the peace of the world...
...before Pearl Harbor to wage war against the U. S. and that the Nazis had incited Japan to launch the Pearl Harbor attack...
...In Palestine new disorders broke out as restive Jewish nationalists, angered by Britain's failure to meet their demands for unrestricted Jewish immigration, attacked coast guard stations...
...With Nazism conquered and the Nazi leaders dead or imprisoned, the goal of lasting peace still remains elusive in a sick and troubled world...
...In Indonesia, British imperialist troops continued to mow down Javanese natives fighting for independence from Dutch rule...
...A quick glance around the world tells the story...
...President de Gaulle called for nationalization of credit, electricity, and insurance, and for a foreign policy based on vigorous, sincere international cooperation...
...At mid-week the U. S. Government proposed that British, Russian, and American troops be withdrawn entirely from Iran by Jan...
...Nor could the burying of dispatches from the tension areas of the world lessen the gravity of the situation in Iran, Palestine, India, China, Indo-China, and Indonesia...
...Evidence was introduced to prove that both Germany and Japan had long-range plans eight month...
...The disturbances were symptomatic of growing unrest in India as the issue of self-rule for that vast and fabulously wealthy British possession remains unresolved...
Vol. 9 • December 1945 • No. 48
