TREATMENT OF JAPAN
PRELIMINARY PLAN PREPARED AVASHINGTON, August 14. The Uflited States is preparing for submission to Great Britain, Russia, and China a preliminary plan for the economic aud political treatment of Japan which is strikingly similar to that prepared for Germany, except that Japan would be permitted to carry on a limited trade with other nations, thus obtaining the products vital to her sustenance, particularly iron ore, coal, and textiles.
The New York i Herald-Tribune’s ’ Washington correspondent says that' the United States has discarded proposals which contemplated the placing of an iron ring or military might around Japan, as such a course would have meant death for several millions from starvation, and the whole population would have been ■ eventually undernourished. The United States also rejected a proposal for an economic blockade, with rehabilitation agencies such as Unrra to supply internal insufficiencies. The American plan for the political treatment of Japan requires the Complete disarmament, and demilitarisation, and the. removal of all heavy industries.
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Evening Star, Issue 25563, 15 August 1945, Page 6
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