NO CHANGE IN POLICY

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

NO CHANGE IN POLICY

ALLIED OBJECTIVES IN JAPAN'S INTEREST (!Rec. 11.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 19. The State Department Press officer, Mr Lincoln White, told newspapermen to-day that when Mr George Ateheson told the Allied Contrd Council for Japan that “ Japanese aim 6 have become virtually identical with Allied aims.” it did not constitute a change in American policy toward Japan The basic American policy announced in September, 1945, after the Japanese surrender remained intact. Mr White added • “ Everything Mr Atcheson out in Tokio does is on the basis of that policy statement.” Mr White said Mr Atcheson had tele graphed the State Department explaining that his remark was “ a statement of fact, as we in this headquarters see it, that the.occupation autliori ties have received willing co-operation from the Japanese, because the Japanese have come to realise that the A 1 lied objectives are in Japan’s interest as well as in ours, and that accordingly they are seeking these same goals.”