SYMPATHETIC U.S. COMMENT

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24632, 31 July 1945, Page 5

SYMPATHETIC U.S. COMMENT

NEED TO CONSULT N.Z. AND AUSTRALIA TERMS TO JAPAN NOT THOUGHT LENIENT (Rec 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 29. The "New York Herald-Tribune,” in a leading article, says: “Most Americans will receive with surorise and sympathy Dr. Evatt’s protest against the failure to consult Australia on the terms of the ultimatum to Japan. "With all the machinery available for rapid consultation between the various members of the United Nations it is curious that nations like New Zealand and Australia, whose security is directly dependent on the terms of the peace settlement with Japen, should receive their first information of such an important document from the press. “However, it Ls still possible to deprecate Dr. Evatt’s strictures on the leniency of the ultimatum's terms, The document reaffirmed the Cairo declaration, which Australian opinion applauded. and virtually restated all the conditions which the Yalta'agreement imposed on Germany—disarmament, elimination of militarist groups, destruction of war-making power, occupation, and reparations. “The only difference between the Yalta and the Potsdam programmes was that the latter emphasised the positive benefits to accrue to the Japanese from unconditional surrender. “To peer Into this distinction for evidences .that Japan will be treated more leniently than Germany is hardly realistic statesmanship. Therefore, it is hoped that Australia will not dissociate herself from the ultimatum at a time when unity among the Allies in the Pacific war is so important. "At the same time, the sacrifices and the security problems of Australia and New Zealand for the common cause should be recognised by the larger Powers in every future diplomatic step of comparable importance. When possible sources of friction can be eliminated by the easy method of prior consultation it is simply folly not to employ It.” AMERICA’S NEWEST BOMBERS (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 29. "America’s newest super-planes, 832 bombers, have made first bombing missions,” says the correspondent of the Associated Press with the United States sth Air Force on Luzon. “They wiped out a small Japanese-held village in the Cagayan valley of Luzon. Two of the new craft, designed to participate In lonp-range raids against Japan itself, made the first flight. A third plane was unable to take of! because of mechanical difficulties. “The 832 is slightly smaller than the 829. The commander of the operation commented that the 832 was a ‘topnotch weapon.’ Its performance perfectly justified all earlier predictions.”