NOT COMPLETE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22290, 27 March 1947, Page 5

NOT COMPLETE

PURGE IN JAPAN WARTIME LEADERS AUSTRALIAN CRITICISM (10 a.m.) CANBERRA, March 26. Australia was not convinced that those Japanese responsible for aggression in the past had been effectively excluded from political and economic influence in Japan, said the Minister of External Affairs. Dr. li. V. Evatt, in the House of Representatives. “Undoubtedly there are political trends which are most disturbing,” he said. “Our desire for an early settlement with Japan arises out of our concern over the results of control of the final pattern of settlement and, in particular, -ontrol of the industrial war effort. Claims have been made which would imply that the control forces have entirely completed their work.

“While we fully appreciate the degree to which the Japanese Government and the people have complied with the Supreme Commander’s requests, we are justified in feeling because our experiences since 1941 that, we can take no risks, we desire an early peace treaty not to liquidate the United Nations’ interest in Japan, but to insist that there must not be merely guidance, but such an effective supervision of Japan as will lead to the emergence of a genuinely peace-loving democratic people.”