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Gen. MacArthur's Grip
On Japan
A.A.P. And Our Special Representative
NEW YORK, September 11
Gen MacArthur has a far
stronger grip on the situation than
most of the informed Japanese
with whom he has dealt are aware,
states Prank Kluckholn, ToUo
correspondent of the -New York
Times." Some of nis actions
may appear unorthodox at home
—some too weak and some too
strong
However attei two weeks nere,
with information pouring in from
all sources he has had a chance to
size up the situation and get troops
ashore His dissolution of the Im
perial General Staff, which ordered
the rape of Manila and other un
toward events, was issued as soon
as enough divisions were ashore
and the Japanese sufficiently dis
armed to make the oromulgation
possible without an attempt to
wipe out the American foothold i
| Gen. Mac Arthur, preparatory i
[to the latest orders Issued a state
j tnent that he was over all the
[Japanese authorities, including the
military but not a word of the'
statement was published in the;
Japanese newspapers
The correspondent says tnat
Gen Mac Arthur caught a'number
of (ruilty men off-guard, think
ing that such action would be
slow. Most of them feared
death Altogether forty ar
rssts have been ordered, including
the entire Cabinet at the time of
Pearl Harbor Togo, who was then
Foreign Minister, b reported to be
hiding in the hills.
These 40 men are merely the pre
[ cursors of thousands of others
Gen Mac Arthur has detailed re-!
ports on war prisoners, and knows!
the whereabouts of the "rough
stuff boys and sirls." Criminals,
who do not commit suicide will |
appear before court martial? to br
sentenced j
In Washington the feeling 13
[growing that" Gen. Mac Arthur!
1 should be recalled to get some sys
tern put into what commentators
are now calling the '-Gilbert and
Sullivan rule of Japan."
After conversations with Gen.
Mac Arthur. the Japanese Foreign
Minister (Shigemitsu) Is reported
to nave told Japanese business
leaders:—"You have nothing to
worry about, especially as regards
peace industries." The Japanese
Commerce Minister (Nakajima)
said that he understood mat the
Allies would be generous towards
the reconstruction of the Iron and
shipbuilding industries.
LONDON, September 11.—The
"Daily Mail" says that Gen. Mac-
Arthur's tightening up at Tokio,
and Seac's steps to bring home to
the Japanese the fact that they
are defeated are welcome decisions,
which were not reached too soon.
They should be followed ud by
others much more severe.
Characterising the Webb report
ias -evidence of the inexpressible
j foulness of the Japanese system."
I the "Daily Telegraph" says that it
is not surprisins to find Australian
(opinion, as is the American, per-
I turned about chances of the punish
itnenl of war criminals and about
the policy which the occupying
authorities are pursuing It was
well understood in Britain why
Australia, on whose threshold the
appalling horror of a Japanese In
vasion hovered so long, should de
mand a special voice in measures
to prevent a recurrence of the dan
ger
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