THE PEACE IN PREPARATION
• • • THE PEACE IN PREPARATION • • • FOREIGN ministers of the Big Three—the United States, Soviet Russia, and Great Britain—were embarked this week on a new effort to crack the diplomatic...
...Awaiting consideration by the foreign ministers was a vast and baffling array of problems which have developed in Europe, Asia, and Africa...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt said last week that Mrae...
...Moscow placed the blame for bloodshed in Iran on "reactionary elements which have opposed the extension of national rights" to the people of the affected northern area...
...Edwin W. Pauley, U. S. Reparations Commissioner, recommended last week that Japan be stripped of all assets abroad, virtually all chemical, steel, and shipbuilding capacity,- and half her electric power and machine tool industries...
...American observers fear that sharing of occupation controls would slow down the enormous strides toward democratization of Japan which have been made in recent months under MacArthur...
...World News Notes: The chaotic situation in Germany under Four Power occupation will soon become even more confused...
...Mrs...
...pointed to the urgent desire of the Anglo-American members of the Big Three to get the conference off on a friendly footing...
...These industrial facilities would be shipped to other countries, along with all Japanese capacity for producing many specified light metals...
...MacArthur last week ordered the arrest of two top Japanese—-Prince Fumimaro Konoye and Marquis Koichi Kido, who was Emperor Hirohito's closest adviser—as war criminals...
...THE PEACE IN PREPARATION • • • FOREIGN ministers of the Big Three—the United States, Soviet Russia, and Great Britain—were embarked this week on a new effort to crack the diplomatic deadlock among the self-styled Great Powers— a deadlock which became a painful certainty for all the world to see when the London Conference of Foreign Ministers collapsed early in the Fall...
...A tense political situation is developing in Rumania where the Social Democratic Party demonstrated its overwhelming support of its leader, Constantin Titel Petrescu, in his determination to reject the Communists' demand for a "single workers' party...
...1. "Hunger and starvation have never been the U. S. objective," he said...
...Great Britain presented a series of new demands to the Siamese Government which would place that long independent nation, recently under Japanese control, under British rule until it is accepted into the United Nations...
...Reinforcements, the British said, were needed in Java to guarantee Dutch sovereignty against the stubborn opposition of the Javanese people...
...This decision, which was said to rule out any consideration of Indonesian demands for independence, was reached at a Singapore conference of British, Dutch, and French commanders...
...Sweeping Changes In Japan The Soviet demand for a share in the control of conquered Japan is bound to be one of the most troublesome questions...
...Gen...
...MacArthur laid down a sweeping program of agrarian reform to "destroy the economic bondage which has enslaved the Japanese farmer for centuries of feudal oppression...
...Douglas MacArthur, while the latter's aides have.made it clear that he would resign if this course were approved...
...The program of encouraging labor unions, establishing a system of democratic education, breaking up monopolies, smashing the military clique, and weakening the power of the reigning financial families received new impetus this week when Gen...
...There were strong indications this week that the tl...
...The cautious Associated Press, in a dispatch from Tokyo, described the new MacArthur directive as a "tremendous move calling for abolition of absentee land ownership and making provision for Japan's vast millions of small tenant farmers to buy their own farms on long terms at low rates...
...A dispatch from Chungking disclosed that the Communist troops had been ordered to evacuate their position along the Changchun (Manchuria) railroad, but failed to tell whether it was Russia or the Chinese Government which did the ordering...
...The Government was also directed to provide a program of technical education for farmers, along with an agricultural cooperative movement "free of domination by non-agrarian interests...
...Winston Churchill had led the Tory attack, charging that the Laborites were leading Britain "day by day nearer disaster...
...While Red forces had ostensibly evacuated Teheran, he said, Soviet agents were organizing "a sort of fifth column in the city...
...Hussein Ala, Iranian ambassador to the U. S., said last week that there "might be come connection'' between disorders in northern Iran and his country's refusal to grant Russia oil concessions there...
...15, provides that farmers are to be afforded legal protection so adverse conditions will not force them back into tenancy...
...Dispatches from Nuernberg quoted Joachim von Rib-bentrop, who long ruled the Nazi foreign office in Hitler's Reich, as saying that he had worked for a German-English alliance and had opposed war with Russia...
...In China, fighting between Communists and the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek continued unabated...
...Lucius D. Clay, deputy American military governor for Ger many, revealed this week that the U. S. will import food into Germany to raise the German food ration effective Jan...
...Tomoyuki Yamashita, the first high-ranking Japanese war leader to be placed on trial, was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging by a U. S. military commission in Manila...
...British imperialism made other news this week...
...Imperialism Rules The Orient Elsewhere in the Orient, British, French, and Dutch imperialist forces continued their bloody subjection of native independence movements...
...The program, which the Japanese Government is ordered to launch by Mar...
...Among the more important are controls over atomic energy, Russia's demand for a veto voice in the occupation of Japan, the drawing up of peace settlements for Italy and the Balkans, critical problems which have developed in the Four Power occupation of Germany, Soviet demands for a foothold in the Dardanelles, the struggle over Iran, and the blooJy strife that has developed out of imperialist policies in the Orient...
...Russia has insisted on the right to veto actions by Gen...
...Reports from London disclosed that the British will turn over part of their Rhine-land zone to the Belgians, who will send 70,000 troops into the area for occupation duty...
...S. and Britain were prepared to make major concessions to Moscow in the hope of coming up with at least a general understanding by Christmas...
...The British, who have been helping the Dutch and French to beat down freedom forces in the Dutch East Indies and French Indo-China, announced a withdrawal of troops from Indo-China in order to bolster their anti-independence strength in the Indies...
...Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, who proposed this new conference, Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, and Russia's Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov are meeting in Moscow to discuss "matters of current concern" and to exchange "views on the subject of the control of atomic energy...
...Lt...
...Chiang Kai-shek was typical of the Chinese in that "she can talk beautifully about democracy, but she does not know how to live democracy...
...Britain's Labor Government rode out a stormy debate last week when the House of Commons rejected a Conservative Party motion of censure by a vote of 381 to 197...
...The first batch of 2,500,000 Germans to be expelled from Czechoslovakia were rounded up last week and were readv for deportation to Germany...
...The fact that the conference was being held in the Soviet capital under conditions dictated by the Kremlin and that France and China were being excluded in conformance with the wishes of the U.S.S.R...
...Ribbentrop, who reiterated loyalty to Hitler, was disclosed in captured documents to have sought to tempt Japan into an attack on the U. S____ Gen...
Vol. 9 • December 1945 • No. 50
