SOVIET CHARGE AGAINST U.S.
LINKS WITH FASCISTS IN JAPAN
MR SEBALD’S COMMENT’ (Rec. 10 p.m.) TOKYO, Dec. 22. Mr William Sebald, chief diplomatic adviser to General MacArthur, and chairman of the Allied Control Council for Japan, to-day described as “unadulterated twaddle” a letter to General MacArthur from the head of the Russian mission in Tokyo (LieutenantGeneral Kuzma Derevyanko), accusing General MacArthur of working hqnd-in-hand with Japanese Fascists against the democratic rights of Japanese workers. The letter was a sequel to the Russian walk-out from the Control Council yesterday. Mr Sebald said Russia was- trying to throw UP a smoke-screen because it feared world public scrutiny of the mystery of Japanese pfisoners in Russian hands. Commenting on Lieutenant-General Derevyanko’s letter, General MacArthur said the Soviet charge was a smoke-screen to distract attention from an investigation of the "dreadful fate” of missing Japanese prisoners. The Rqssian charge was ’‘moth-eaten" and “blatant propaganda.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25994, 23 December 1949, Page 7
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