POLICY IN JAPAN

Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 7

POLICY IN JAPAN

CONTRDL COUNCIL BICKERING AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE TAKEN” TO , TASK NEW YORK, October 17. The ‘Herald-Tribune,’ in an editorial, says Mr George Atcheson’s statement to the Allied Control Council that Japanese aims have become virtually identical witiTvAmerican aims is the most astonishing statement 'made recently by -an American diplomat. “Mr Atcheson,” it says, “seems to have gone so far in his distaste for and fear of Communism that he is prepared to put America’s. full support behind a Government which obviously has feudal and militaristic tendencies. Mr Atcheson, instead of advocating democracy in Japan as an antidote to Communism, is sponsoring extreme Conservatism as an antidote. “ Presumably this new alliance with Japan is a personal affair of Mr Atcheson. If so, he should be notified that the United States still has more regard for those who fought with the Americans to win the war than it has for Yoshida or any other leader of defeated enemies.” - BRITONS EMBARRASSED. The Tokio correspondent of the ‘ New York Times ’ says Mr Atcheson’s statement regarding Mr Macmahon Ball’s attitude at the Allied Control Council echoed the growing feeling among Britons in Tokio that Mr Ball actually represents an Australian political group thaa the British Commonwealth. British circles frankly say they feel that the Commonwealth’s interests demand a somewhat closer approach to the American viewpoint in occupation ’.flairs. The ‘ Chicago Tribune’s ’ . Tokio Correspondent says Mr Ball’s behaviour on the Allied Council caused considerable anguish to Britons in Tokio. British sources' which had requested anonymity told the correspondent they have long been embarrassed by Mr Ball’s tactics, which they ascribed to a debater’s eagerness to make a point. A message from Canberra states that Dr H V. Evatt will leave for Japan as soon as pressure of political business permits. This follows the breach between Mr Macmahon Ball and the United States representative on the Allied Control Council.