REFORM IN JAPAN
QUESTION OF CLOSER LIAISON COMMISSION’S REQUEST NEW YORK, May 29. General MacArthur has declined to supply a liaison officer for the Far Eastern Commission, for which reason the commission is considering other means of obtaining information . regarding developments in Japan. The chairman of the commission (Major-General McCoy) assured members that he was completing arrangements for closer liaison.
General MacArthur assured the commission that he fully agreed there should be closer working arrangements between his headquarters and the commission, but at present it was impossible to send an officer to act as his deputy in broad matters involving constitutional reform __because General MacArthur had given personal attention to this matter and there was no officer in a position to express his views. .The New York Herald-Tribune’s correspondent, in Washington says a complaint regarding the Emperor Hirohito’s freedom of movement has been lodged by Mr. Mikolai Novikov, the Soviet member of the Far Eastern Commission.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1946, Page 8
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