INVESTIGATION SOUGHT
MISSING PRISONERS’ “TRAGIC FATE” (Rec. 12.5 a.m.) . TOKYO, Dec. 22. General MacArthur announced to-day that he was requesting the United States Government to ask Switzerland or the International Red Cross to investigate “the tragic fate of 367,000 missing Japanese prisoners.” General MacArthur said his request was based or LieutenantColonel W. R. Hodgson’s “wise recommendation” at yesterday’s meeting of the Allied Control Council for Japan. Commenting on the Russian walk-out from the council. General MacArthur said: “I ean well understand the reluctance of the Soviet member to listen to so gruesome and savage a story in all its harrowing barbarity. It could well chill and sicken even a hardened old soldier.” General MacArthur described as “probably dead” hundreds of thousands of the missing prisoners.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25994, 23 December 1949, Page 7
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