OFFICIAL RECALLED TO AUSTRALIA
REPORTED DISPUTE WITH FORCES IN JAPAN (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 11. An officer of the Public Relations Division of the Post-war Reconstruction Ministry, Mr Robert Record, has been sent back from Japan on the orders of TJeutenant-General H. C. H. Robertson. Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. He was to have provided information to help soldiers with *heir post-war problems. The “Sunday Sun” savs it is believed that criticism or Australian Army officers, culminating in a scene between Mr Record and General Robertson in a mess, resulted in Mr Record’s recall. Relations between the Army and the Post-War Reconstruction Department are strained. Army officers are incensed about an anonymously written artime appearing in a Sydney former servicemen’s newspaper, and accusing Australian officers in Japan of over-drinking and under-working.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25389, 12 January 1948, Page 7
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