THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1950.
AMERICA 'HANDS OFF OVER Undecided
Reaction No. JAP RED PURGE
To stir
1
up strikes
and unrest
By LESLIE NAKASHIMA
Tokyo, June 6. The Japan Communist Party is not going to take General MacArthur's purge of its big guns lying down but
But Russia may launch
some
bitter complaints
Washington, June 6.-Government quarters here ac- quiesced today in General Douglas MacArthur's purge of 24 top members of the Japanese Communist Party in a manner which implied at least tacit consent to his action.
The general Government attitude here was will adopt new obstruction-hands off" on the grounds that he was dealing ist tactics against the oceu- with "internal" matter regarding for which he has pation.
These murcen said the Com- full authority as chief of the occupation.
labour on
unions,
avelzina
comment
munists will concentrate their
One State Department slovakin, after failure to win the efforts
In the elections. nanas, official said that for the pre-majority by populai particularly inctory throughout the nation to cause sent at least there would be
Mercover, officials wave of regional strikes to im- no comment on General Mac-
and generate Arthur's order. pede production
At the Fart nut only do the Communist
use such methods but once in unrest.
one power they never give the op- Cam- Eastern Commission,
alightest chance. position the They immediately cruri epponents and as a result the general publle has no recourse 10 chanke the regimes as it does through elections in de- mocracles,
They admitted muts would try
the
to work official said the matter hud underground but belleved they not arisen for discussion and would sky froin terroristle ac tivities, at least temporarily, for he doubted that it would. fear of influencing the authuri- ten to outlaw the party.
He sakt he believed that the aid theguneral attitude would be that it is within the authority of he Occupation Chlet to deal with internat stability and order.
The rame soure Cominunist Party was organised In the shape of a pyramid and the slashing of the top would not mean the party's destruc- Lion.
drastic
observers
Some unoffelal here believed that Genera! He said there was no possibi- MacArthur's order was a step
help bring 1ity of the Commission repr which would
Gen, MacArthur peace treaty carller for Japan. hig de-firey argird that the United
hing to reverse
atti-
mare
"The Communist Party expected
1 cited the fact that States government would feel Perly
action after General cirlon.
to relax occupa- MacArthur's May 3 latement Communist Party is under
in the United in controls sooner if chances
violence are re and had been making prepara-sharp cerutiny
catre States and that the Australian numinist The directive but
introduced ducet-United Press. than
expected government was
legislation
It coin- pletely in that country.
Thus the blow dut not com altogether as surprise and i necounted for the compara- tive calm atmosphere natleed) at the party headquarters to day,
MOUTHPIECE BAN?
The Communists anticipate and further anti-party action they fear two possible develop cents:
1. Ban on publication of the
organ.
(Red Akabata Banner), which, as the mouth- piece
the outlawed Central committee, had been vociferous in its denunciation of the occu pation and
and its necusation against the United State of reducing Japan to a colonial status:
3. Further purge of Conimui. nii lendern,
has to outlaw
WHAT OF RUSSIA?
Aubiter Far Eastern Commiz- in offeral supposed that Russia might object but noted that for the present the Sovjet delegate is fusing to sit at Commission meetings.
He sold ang complaint would be vo'ced through a note to the State Department. This to the method which Russia has used lately since it walked out of the Far Eastern Commission dispute over who should repre-
ent China there.
The Communist Party will not Moscow has twice complained elcet new
central committer to the State Department lately *intil the national convention in about smatters in Japan. Une the autumn, these sources said. concerned the charge that the In the meantime the party's acti- Emperor is a war criminal and other was a protest over vities will be guided by the 10 the alternates to the central com- General MacArthur's formation mitter and the 30 diet members of a parole board to deal with
war criminals. who were not purged.
Diet member Katsuni Kiku- nami - former newspaperm:0 who ban seen duly in Europe. looms as the party's top leader the and may br
elected
LITTLE IMPRESSION
The general reaction in the autumn 43 secretary Ken ral, | United States and Far Eastern
Tekuda. Commission eireles, succording Kylch!
however,
United Press,
Peking Plans Development
dern worth
1.0
be placed
was that the Soviets would make little impression with any protest about General MacArthur's purge of Communist leaders.
Several United States alllcials privately commented favour- Lly un Gen. MacArthur'a decision on the grounds that the San Francisco, June 6.-Or- | Communists In Japan, 115
bave US$60,000,000 arc Europt,
Perted to with various Violence un 1000 as they find State-owned and private ma- their cunpaikas for popular chine building plants south of support that other means the Great WaIL
fail.
They cited the fet that the Building conference whic: Communists, began their attack just ended in Peking, a Chinesio
troops and
This was one of the decision
reaved at a National Machine
United States
Communist brandest said to then tried to incite a general
night, The fielent
orders will
trakce on the grounds that this suf- | violence deserved sympathy. to occupy between 60
Some officials here rald they and 80 percent of the capacity
vividly how the
of all private machine tulis | recalle.
the Communists in phpts in Shanghai and monties of
of violence, Tientsin during the last half of through the use this year, the broadcast claim-seized control over countries in ¿d.—Iteuter.
trope, must notably Czecho-
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
4-28 COF. 1916 BY NEA BERTICE, ING T, M, BEO, U. B, BAT, OFF.
"Don't stop to argue or Pop will deliver one of his 'Now when I was a boy' spaeches!"
Skiing by Jets
Toronto. June 6-Jet plane designers conceded today that a Quebeo in- ventor rally bad an idea. All be needed to put it into of operailon was a pair asbestos pants and a strong back.
140
OR
Marcel Poisson of Roch Forest near Sherbrooke, Quebec, is all set to re- volutionise akling, both as a sport and in defence. suggested Jel-propelled akis
A motor with A
mounted the skiler's back.
Poisson readily admitted he was a Bille hazy about Jet engines, but he believed his rig had such possib}}}- ties that he filled a patent application with
Federal Kovernment. -
United Press.
Prince At Sandhurst
Prince Nasaruddin, a sergeant in the Malay Regi- ment, seen on his arrival at Liverpool in the troopship Orduna. The prince, a cousin of the Sultan of Pahang,
is to train at Sandhurst.
27
feared
dead after plane crash
Reaction No. 2
As vicious
as the 1928 purge
on future of Eritrea
Genova, Juno 6.—Tho United Nations Commission for Eritren today began its final series of meetings 22 with members still divided the future of the former Italian colony.
over
The Commission's report- By ERNEST HOBERECHT
which must be in the hands of Mr Tryve Lle, the Secretary- Tokyo, June 6.-Deflant:
General, by June 16-ling been Communist speakers public-drafted in two sections, it is ly denounced General Mac-understood.
th: Arthur's purge of Japan's One section will present 24 top Communists today seath Africa, while the other Ondings of Burmy, Norway and as n dictatorial act pointing W the way to destruction the nation.
give those of the Com- of mission's other two members,
Pakistan and Guatemala,
According to usually reliable SOURCES, Burma, Norway and South Africa agree that Eritrea
Politburo
ceonomically unit to stand alone as an independent country, solutions for the but their future of the territory are said
to differ.
The Supreme Cominander bannet 24 members of the Com munist Central Committee the Japanese party's from party propaganda or public uctivity. He did not outlaw the Japanese Communist Party but has suggested to the Japanese
Two of the countries favour that it may du so.
under i forni of federation The Arst open deilance of
enjoy General
MarArthur's directive which Eritrea would came at the vity of Fukuokautonomy but would be closely Communist speakers harangued linked politically and
mically with Ethiopin by cus- a crowit of 300. They said the toms and trade agreements. order was dietatoria), that would lead Japan to destruc tion and that it "equalled in viciousness" the Japanese Gov- the suppression of
1928 when
מן
ernment's Communists many were imprisoner.
11
reono-
the The third member of tria favours complete incorpora- tion of Eritren with Ethiopia.
FOR 101 YEARS of the
Commission's other members, Guatemala's repre- Carloo Garelo
Dr
One of General MacArthur's setitative, fist acts after entering Tokyo Bauer, told a recent presa con- with The Occupation forees ference that his Government the Communist favoured a 10-year United Na- who had been in prison for 17tions trusteeship for the terri- tory, to be followed by indepon- clence.
waf
years,
to free
POSTERS UP
1st
This view is shared by Pakia-
it is understood,
In the city of Yowata, the Communists
up posters put
is expected that the Com-
summoning parly members to mission will end its work this an "emergency meeting."
no
The National Pollee fead-week, since all that remains to be done is the formal arrange- quarters here sald that
ment of the report In Its various violence has been reported any- where but the authorities would sections continue on the alert.
Britain recommended, in policy statement to the Curn- 381 press reported that a group of leftist students at the inkston in April, that Eritrea should be partitioned, the Cen- University of Tokyo distributed tral and Eastern Provinces going handbills among the students to Ethiopia, and
the Western protesting against General Mac Province being incorporated in Arthur's action and calling on the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.-- the students "everywhere" Reuter. strike.
་་
The Cabinet was reported to be drafting legislation to be submitted to the Parliam probably next month to restrict the activity of the Communist Party-United Press,
Seeks Third
Las
Divorce
Vegas, June
Atomic Energy
Conference
London, June 6. Two hun dred leading atomie scientists are expected to attend the Krs Dig International conference on atomic energy In Britain next September, the Minister of Sup-
ply announced meal by
U--The The conference,
Brilich actress, Joan Blondell, will go the
Atomic Energy
to court on Thursday divoree Research Establishment at Har- her third husband, the Broad-eet, Berkshire, will be held at way show producer, Mike Todd, Harwell and at Oxford Univer
sity from September 7 to 13. her attorney sald today.
Sientists are the gla-
expotted from The lawyer said
Commonwealth, Western orous blonde film star would the
accuse Todd of cruelty. Ite said: Europe and the United States.
"There should be no complica--Reuter.
tions in the action because Miss
Blundell is asking only for
divorce.
He said she would
not seek a properly settlement:
alimony.
ever
to Mr
When the actress came here on April 27 to establish Nevada residency, she said she had "more financial security thun
before, thanks Todd Her 11-year-old daugh- ier. Ellen Powell, accompanied
home i her here from Oleir New York. Ellen is the daugh- ter of the star's second marriage lo singer-actor Dick Powell.
Todd married Miss Blondell here on July 4, 1917-United Press.
No imperialism
of Indo-China
Saigon, June 6.—Mr Robert Blum, head of the Miami, June 6.-Thirty- American Economic Mission to Vietnam, said here seven men who survived the today that the United States "had no intention of chartered plane crash into the sea on Monday night trying to impose huge quantities of American pro- were rescued by a United ducts or large numbers of American technicians" States destroyer today and on Indo-China.
five of the 27 missing men
Declaring that there was "no | France
and the three Indo-
were found flouting dead American imperialism" hidden Chinese states. near the rescue scene.
wak
A merchant ship reported to South-East Eighting Ave bodies a few hours told a after the destroyer,
Saufley, ecel no position of special in-interest-free plucked 37 survivors from life fluence here today." rafts 370
northeast of Miami.
iniles
The Cape Ann which Join- ed the search this morning tent
in the economie aid programme
He added that aid to Indo- Asia, Mr Blum press conference, "We China
a grani, not an Joan, and that medicine supplies distributed by the American mission would American aid was not In be solely for civilian use-Reu- tended to reinforce French in-ter.
uence in Indo-China or to in- terfere in the relations between
a message to the Coast Guard France, on the one hand, and
rescue control here that i had Vicinium, Laos and Cambodia,
found bodies and was standing on the other.
by to awali the Saufley. The hope for 22 men s.ill missing
who fading. They were belleved to be dead.
Mr Blum
stated that the
United States Congress had
Radio Hongkong
to for ald voted $23,500,000
Air and sea rescue operations Indo-China, being part of $90,-
B.K.T.
0.50. "longkong Calling"-TO-
continued under orders to cease 000,000 voted "for the general grasime Summary: 6, "Take it from al midnight Wednesday it fur-area of China" for the year end-fiere-With Joy Nicho's, Dick Bent- ther search proves fruitless.-ing June 30, 1951.
United Press.
93 Arrosts In Abadan
Of the total sum of $40,000, 000 would go to Formosa.
+
to
ley and Jimmy Edwards (London Relay) 0.30. Songs by Ina Bouez the Piano (Studio): 1. "Lucky Din" (Soprana): 0.40, Pete Valderrama at -Varlety Request Programms Pre- sented by Pauline Spence (Studio); B, World News and News Analysi All America sought was help heal war wounds and In-London Helay); 8.15, Orchestra of the Week Scala Orchestra of Tchernn, June 6-Informed | crease the ability to resist Millan: 0.43. Music and Bon sources said today that the Communist imperialism,
Ilayda Wood; 9. "From 13e Edilo- rial" (London Relay); D.10, Weather police arrested-93 persons. In
Report: 9.11, "Bervices Spotlight-
of
Abadan who allegedly belonged In reply, to question Mr Blum With the int Balt: King's Own Beol to the illegal Communist Tudeh said that economic ald was distish Borderers (From the West Party and who might have been tinct from military aid, the Lounge YMCA, Kowloon);
still French Cabaret": 10.30. Recital - involved in the recent assassina- | amount of which Was ***** | Denis Malthewe (Piano): 10.40, “Bott Elon of the anti-Communist being debated in Washington. Lights and Swest, Muxlo"; 11, ladie The Americans would control Newsrsel. (London Itelny): 11.15, magazine editor and member of
Weather: Report: '11,18," Goodnight Parlament, Ahmed Behaghem, aid allocation, and the distribusi : God Save the King 13.12.
United Press.
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