JAPAN AS FRIEND

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22484, 13 November 1947, Page 5

JAPAN AS FRIEND

FUTURE_EVENTS ADVICE TO U.S. COMMUNISM ‘’MENACE” NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Japan was described as "a great reservoir of potential friends to act as a deterrent and perhaps even to put off the day when our lads will march again” by Lieut.-General Robert Eichelberger, who commanded the Eighth Army of Occupation in Japan. He was giving an Armistice Day address at Cincinnati. , He did not elaborate on Japan’s usefulness as a deterrent. General Eichelberger added that the Japanese “look upon us with respect and even budding friendship.”'

"The Communists are making the greatest efforts of all time to enslave the peoples of the world,” said General W. Mark Clark, United States Sixth Army commander, in a speech in San Francisco. General Clark, a former administrator of the American occupation zone in Austria, added: “Today only two years after the successful termination of our long, hard fight against Nazism and Fascism, we are face to face with the insidious propaganda and infiltration of yet another evil ideology— Communism.”