THE PEACE IN PREPARATION
. . . THE PEACE IN PREPARATION . . . THE Nuernberg trial of the Nazi ringleaders continued this week to dominate American newspaper headlines, but sober reporters and public officials were far more...
...World News Notes: The French Constituent As- . sembly voted this week for nationalization of credit and the five most important French banks...
...These attempts to fix responsibility for the aggressions that culminated in World War II came in the midst of warnings (See Page 3) that we are even now embarked on a course that will lead to World War III...
...Meanwhile, in the Palace of Justice at Nuernberg, U. S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson and his prosecutor-colleagues continued the presentation of documents showing how Adolf Hitler and his Nazi aides long planned rearmament and aggression even as they were claiming peaceful purpose...
...Rudolf Hess, former deputy to Hitler who escaped to England during the war, abandoned his attempt to plead insanity as a defense...
...Four months later he and the Messrs...
...In China, the civil war between Chinese Communists and the Nationalist regime of Chiang Kai-shek continued unabated as the latter pressed forward toward Mukden in a bid to reassert control of Manchuria...
...The Communists announced that they were prepared to fight a 10-year civil war if necessary...
...Clergymen told the investigators that the policies being pursued in the U. S. zone of occupation "will not exterminate Hitlerism...
...Many of Price's dire warnings were confirmed this week by a secret surve\^ completed by U. S. Intelligence officers which disclosed that German resentment toward American occupation policies is developing into bitter hatred, with growing talk of resistance...
...Price, former Director of Censorship who recently completed a six weeks survey of Germany for President Truman, reported that revision of the Potsdam Declaration is an urgent necessity...
...Bloody battling continued in French Indo-China where native independence forces have refused to yield to their French masters...
...He admitted that he had faked amnesia, fooling Allied medical experts and even his own attorney, but said he is now prepared to stand trial and "bear full responsibility for anything I have done...
...they are listening hourly, with traditional credulity, for the voice of whatever type of new leader desperation may-produce...
...Soviet Russia, accused of having inspired the revolt, refused this week to accept a U. S. proposal that Allied troops be withdrawn from Iran by Jan...
...Those ordered arrested included Prince Morimasa Nashimoto, 71, and two former premiers, Baron Ki-ichiro Hirantma and Koki Hirota...
...President Truman disclosed last week that he has withdrawn his support of a Senate resolution pledging U. S. backing for an independent Palestine commonwealth...
...THE PEACE IN PREPARATION . . . THE Nuernberg trial of the Nazi ringleaders continued this week to dominate American newspaper headlines, but sober reporters and public officials were far more concerned with Germany's present and future as they watched the rapid disintegration of the Potsdam Declaration, under which the Four Powers—Britain, France, Russia, and the U. S.—rule the four watertight compartments of the Reich...
...Mounting Bitterness Price warned that the Germans are nursing old hatreds and developing new ones "with mounting bitterness as their situation becomes more desperate...
...The burning of native villages by the British in Java led one member of the British Parliament to cry out that the incidents reminded him of the Nazi extermination of Lidice, in Czechoslovakia...
...indeed danger exists that Hitlerism will win new adherents...
...Testimony showed, for instance, that in May, 1938, Hitler wrote: "It is my unalterable decision to smash Czechoslovakia by military means...
...Cold, hunger, and disease this Winter, he said, would bring widespread disorders unless there is constructive Allied action soon...
...If the British don't, he warned, others will take the initiative...
...The most critical problem, he said, is "the Four Power deadlock which hamstrings so many important policies...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower, until lately commander of the American zone, and Byron Price, the President's special envoy, warned of imminent collapse of the Potsdam settlement...
...In Indonesia there was no lef-up in the struggle between the native independence forces and the British imperialists fighting to protect Dutch interests...
...16, waiting for permission to visit the Russian-occupied half of Korea...
...A compromise proposal submitted by the Indonesian Republican appeared not to have been accepted by mid-week...
...A dispatch from Ba-tavia to the Chicago Sun this week reported eight U. S. Victory ships had recently unloaded 2,000 French troops, equipped with American arms, at the capital city of Saigon...
...Chamberlin and Daladier signed the Munich Pact which was supposed to save Czechoslovakia and the peace of Europe...
...Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress party, predicted last week that the British would take quick action after the forthcoming elections to turn the Indian government over to the Indians...
...1, but reports from Teheran indicated that the Soviets had begun a surprise evacuation of that city...
...In Iran, violence marked a rebel separatist movement to detach the northern province of Azerbaijan...
...Among the others were political leaders, generals and admirals, newspaper executives, and a number of leading bankers and industrialists who financed Japan's aggression...
...Conflict continued to dominate the "peacemaking process" in large areas of the world...
...Marshal Josip Broz-Tito's left-wing regime in Yugoslavia has proclaimed the country a "people's republic" and King Peter II, in exile in London, replied that he would fight to free his people from what he called a totalitarian tyranny...
...Edwin W. Pauley, American Reparations Commissioner, has been cooling his heels in Tokyo since Nov...
...Douglas MaeArthur this week ordered the arrest of 59 prominent Japanese, drawing for the first time from the Imperial household and the ranks of the Zaibatsii, Japan's industrial-financial oligarchy...
...The measure, placing 80 per cent of France's bank deposits under state control, passed by a vote of 521 to 35, after President Charles de Gaulle had intervened against amendments which would have drastically modified the program...
...Ths President said he prefers to defer action until the report next Spring of an Anglo-American commission on the plight of European Jews...
...More than 80,000 men have been killed and wounded in the two opposing forces since Japan's surrender, he said...
...Pauley has received no reply to his request...
...Yeh Ching-yin, Red Chief of Staff, said that "there is hope for peace, but its realization depends on efforts of both sides, as well as the good-will of foreign friends, especially Americans...
...Japanese Leaders Arrested There were dramatic developments, too, in the war crime situation in Japan...
...Fr°i"p b» charged, was the principal culprit since she is bent on "dismembering" Germany in violation of pledges to treat the Reich as an economic and political unit...
...British pleas for modification of the harsh Potsdam terms received strong American support this week when President Truman, Gen...
Vol. 9 • December 1945 • No. 49
