ALLIED TREATMENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 227, 24 August 1945, Page 5

ALLIED TREATMENT

DEPENDENCE ON JAPANESE. NEW YORK, Aug. 23. . The Tokio newspapers continue their campaign to smooth the way lor the Allied occupation, telling the people they could expect their treatment by the conquerors to reflect exactly tbe people’s own actions. , The Y’omiuri Hochi pointed out that peace and order were among the cluet Allied demands. Accordingly the manner in which the demands were met would determine largely whether Japan was able to lay down a basis for national reconstruction.

The Nippon Times, in a leader, says: “For Japan’s own good there must he a speedy realisation that the old order is finished and the work of building a new world must immediately be started. '“Ally lingering adherence to the obsolete and deficient ideas which have been responsible for Japan’s present plight will only intensify and prolong the disaster. Any attempt to _ too ourselves regarding the utter decisiveness of our predicament will not only lie dishonest and cowardly, but wi also actually injure the chances or our recovery.”