General MacArthur gave orders today for the disarmament of the Japanese first and second armies. These formidable forces had been massed on the home '24i\ islands of Japan in preparation f o r ~ American " invasion. lo they are to be concentrated in given areas and demobilized -- disarmed and mustered out. fl'wacArthur's orders call for be Japanese first army, - - which ia stationed on Honshu, to come under the jurisdicti n of Lieutenant General Eichelberger, who commands the Americ,n 8th Army. The Jap second arllf - - is on Iyushu, the southern Japanese island -- and ia ~.~L~ control"' o~General Walter lruger and put under the his American 6th Army. (ruger's f~rces today, having landed on lyushu yesterda7, were extending their occupation~ -- without an7. trouble. General Mac Arthur has given further orders that Japanese Imperial Headquarters are to provide ••••••• commodit·es for the American armi s of occupation -- which are increa~ing at a rapid rate, JIX ACA TBQ R_.=.__ new lan ii@ all the time. The J ap are required to supply our forces with l a bor. oil, housin g , flying fields, an so on. Th e re is still no indication of just when the American army will march into Tokyo itself. - S ~ ~~~~~ A■ericans,.A' newspapermen, re in the Jap capital -- but the official entr1 is still to come. Today's news dispatch states the exact time will be discussed tomorrow by General Eichelberger and the commander of the Japanese !Jrst . ! _ r ? , ~ u arrange for the ~ ~t•~ whea the Americans will go marching into Tokyo. JAPANESE DIET ____ _ _ . . . ___ _ The Parli ment of J apa n ent into se s ion toda the first m etin of the Imperi al Diet sine the surrender. Hirohito presided, garb ed in t h e resplendent unif orm of a G rand M ar hal of the Japanese Army. He made t~• address, in which he took the f amili ar tone that having been defeated, must live up to the terms. P•rlie. ■1 ■ tp Ya+.· J a u l\ici?4:tr al,etea. The news reports about the speech the Mikado made, give us a little Far Eastern twister, that is quite characteristic. One translation of the imperial address quotes Hirohito as s a ying that Japan must N "win the confidence of the world." However, another tranAlation of that s a me phrase makes it re a d that Japan aust - "keep good face a mong the nations." The latter is undoubtedly the more literally correct. e n t e i w s a e e by hun re n t e 1 ie sp er en - but n • a en , a on is i c h lasted all i h The fap invitation to the eeting r the Die~sent yes erd y, ands a e hat none 0 he news en er to carry we p s - an ••~•i~ to being searc.ed. The raised an uproar aa n the corre pondenta, who declared tha it ould be an insult to be searched by the defeated Japane1e. They held a •eting, and appealed to MacArthur, who agreed with a deci ion th the newsmen sh uld not be searched. They were to attend Parliament under the ordinary rules of good manners - nd not carry weapon,. Army public rel tion officers, who did c ry weapons, did •••~ not nter Parliament. They waited out ide. And so the parliamentary event w covered by the Allied press. FLO JAPA F P !ET _,_,,,...,. ________________ _ T e ion o f t J a a nese P a liam e nt s a ten ed by a bun red a n tw enty Allied n wsp permen - but on y a : t an ar ument, a lon dispute hich lasted all night. The fap invitation to the meeting of the w a s Die~sent yesterday, a nds ated &-$.entl-i~~ that none of the newsmen were to carry weapons - and ~ the~ sJwnH e~9m~ to being searc ed. That raised an uproar among the correspondents, who declared that it would be an insult to be searched by the defeated Japanese. They held a meeting, a4d appealed to MacArthur, who agreed with a decision that the newsmen should not be searched. They were to attend Parliament under the ordinary rules of good manners - and not carry weapons. Army public rel a tion officers · , who did ca ry weapons, did •••~ not enter Parliament. They waited outside. And so the parliamentary event w s covered by the Allied press. To d y at th e u re n u al bas i n J ap n, an American n sman azed out o ver the b r or a a dark hulk - a wrecked b a tleshi . Th n m of ha en my craft i one t ft n pp e red in wartime new and w a rtime controversy the B ttleshi H 0 We firs he ~ t early in the ar, when the HA UNA was reported to h av e b ~ A e.aa 4f -t-he ~re+, lterei.Q fLftHC""e.ft--1!rpicrM,--~ by Colin Kelly L ~ in his Flying Fortress. ~ how ver, some doubt began to be expressed - h a d Colin Ke ly really sunk the BAROIA? Or h d he only dam a ged it with his bombs? Or had the ship he attac ed been some other Japanese battleship - or maybe a s ■ aller veaael, a cruiser? Shortly before the end of the war, the Navy announced the BARONA had been sunk all over again, battered into;;__ckage by a ir attack, at the Kure Naval Base in Japan. This latter story wa correct•-,..J today United ~ I Press Correspondent James icGlincy t ells us how be stood a th Kur loo d o ut at the HA 0 l side in he h a bor , a mere batt d hulk. The U.P. an goes o n i ha k ind of thin th i of hJaan . . to.-~- 1~~ inter st coy - th i - , , ~ in vie of the puzzle of the rel a tion• that are bing esta lished bet een the American conquerors and the Japs, whose ideas are so different from our on. MoGlincy tells of a conversation of a Japanese Vice-Ad iral at K re. The Vice-Admiral was as i ed - if this was Japan's greatest naval base. •r t ! ! ! ,• t h e ~ Admiral re lied, with what the newsman cells - •a hearty hut humorless laugh. The accent," McGlincy continues, "was on the past tense." ~ - The Japanese ~bAdmiral summarized in 11 n ~ words: •It is all finished now," said he. ~That's Row we can all play tennis." these good.4.J / reek - One party of landing troops was greeted by a J a p a n e s e ~ committee, which asked - what kind of entert a inment did the Ameri ca ns want? The Ameri ca ns answered - some shade, and some cold water to drink. That stumped the entertainment committee There wasn't any shade. n o t a sin le sh d y place for miles - and n o cold wat r to drink . Afte r hich some local Ja ps ave he Americans BJ UNA - 4 ~ ,..... __ _ he follo i n conso a 10 0 : "You uld go to Tokyo," s a i tney, "w er there are thre thou and Geisha girls and much cooler w e ather." The puzzle of the Japanese attitude is stated today by the comman d er o f the first United States aray bettalion to 1 nd in Jap n. He arrived back home in a C-54 which made a record-break ' ing trans-Pacific · flight - bringing Jap surrender newareel pictures to the United States:f Major Thomas Mesereau tells how when the first American occupation troops landed, the7 were gre ted every where i th bows and smiles -~~ \7'"~ le ■ iliar etoty. 'The Japaaeee a~~itude', 88)& the M-ejar, "wae iRee ■ prehellai'hle. I got the 1mpreaeie8' tila t. t»hey looke9 "!I• n t, lie ti" .Ju eu at-> abo wt» t.ae W&f t.lle7 _ Hem to think we would dislike them.• J.e 11, t, h-ft4, "111 &;Y . e JEi5 1 a 1 n a gos a a e e 1 the Jape, s ill a v i n an ide a th a u e to b e r ev lent, that HA ONA - 5 -------~ ar is just a gam. The officer ho com n ed th e irst American ~attalion to 1 nd in Japan sa fs he thinks the occupation of Japan m a y have to last t enty years ih order to ■ak any fundamental change in the mentality of . . Som nemy n t about t e pro res of the war in the Paci ic ere disclosed tod a y by a Ja pa nese ne sp per n in Tokyo - &t! ~&a chief of the English J ~ -AU4. • .I se ti on of one o f Japan's bi g J:::-c1i:f:s l--11ruapt that the beginnin of thew r s completely misrepresented to the Japanese p eople - Pearl Harbor. They wee not told ~ - W r v - l . . ~ . that the Pearl Harbor atiack was ~ftli::: ~ - A s a result, their re ctions were not at all what we ■ ight think. •The first ne s,• says the Japanes• journalist, •was a statemd by the general staff early in the morning that war had been declared against the United ltates. This,• says he, •shocked and depressed the population - bee States and Great use of the great power of the B r i t a i n . • ' « ~ ~ n o t United until hours later th at the news of Pearl ar~or was g iven out - announ ed a su c ces s ful att k c ag in s th e Americ ns reli n r hey w "u . • a . re lize f .... he a r o f tbe.n~,---••• I ~ h e tha~tbe a • • KCIA" in~ wa·i. He R ys th t pub if re ct ion was one of relief - a i it h ad all been r e ular battle won in an o r in a y a y . hen id the Japs first be in to re a lize that they wer e losing the war? The Tokyo ne sman replies - "II id ay . " ~ i & a 4 tbi&ki&g people realized th t the fortunes of war were turning when th 7 ' heard of the "i' i av ■ w defeat in the Battle of llidway. give some e. to Mid way it as a Mid ay, Japan still war out 0 t lema te - b t then ca e However, the Jap nese public at large did not really start to under t a n d , until th B-29s began their great fire rai s. From then on, the Jape beca ■e . ~ ..,,I. .:: increas1ngl~..,.r•i~that the war was los;1- and,theft.J ~ ~ atomic bomb was the climax. OOLI TL LYE --------------- The e of th 00 i t flye s ho were c a ptives of the J a s, r turn hom o y - hoje to the United States. They ere Li ut ena nt Robert Hite of Earth,Texas, Li uten nt Cha . e Neilson of Hyrum, Utah, and Staff Sergeant Jacob Deshazer of M ad ras, Ore g on. They landed in Washington, after having been flown all the - way from the F r East, in one of the Army's bi C-54 transports. All three showed signs of the ordeals they endured as prisoners of the Japa. Of these ordeals, they said little today, and it would ~ seem a policy of silence is being followed. There ia still a question of the Doolittle flyers executed by the Japs. Tokyo announced executions, but this was never co nf irmed. It is understood that one•• or more of the flye s ho arrived today had een condemned to death, but the sentence was commute to imprisonment. h a t they can tell has a proba b le b e ~ rin on the whole question of ~ap executi o ns of Doolittle flyer ~ . Ho ever, they are n ot tellin - not jus yet. t ROS S IA --- The United State G agree to the poasession by oviet Rua ia of the [urile I s lands. oscow bas indicated its intenti o n . of holding onto the Iuriles, the string of islands north of Japan. And now Secretar7 of State Byrnes says -- that's okay with , us. He addd that this had been agreed to, not at th ~ Potsdam Conference by President Truman, but at the Yalta Conference by President Roosevelt. At ~hat meeting of the Big Three it was conceded that the Soviets should have the Iuriles • • S i n o ~ s t o l o et o u of T a n i r . - ort Afri ca n . ort..,. reviou s ly h been under• int rn a ti o n 1 ad ministr a tion - un il Spanish tr o o move into the T n ier intern tional zone in Nineteen Forty, when Nazi Ger ny a s riding high. ecently, an Allied committee has been considering the matter of T n ier, an tod a y told Spain - to get out. This is another blow to the Franco government, ' ' which alrea y is shaky. The Tangier : - n e ~ e run A by an interna ional group in which the United States and Soviet Russia will be represented. Spain was represent d in the previous international control, but no the Franco government h s been refused admission to the Uni ed Nations - and T a n ier pases to t',,M United Ra ions' control~ ~ l e a v e s Spain o ut - as long as Franco is in. In 1 v O da , G e n er 1 e u le i s a bcld C l e n o his Left in op o n n e C ulle h s c a lle a n e l ecti o n i t h vi e to r e modellin the Fr e nch Con this,( itution. The eft Win g ers are o osed to of their dem a nds was that DeGaulle confer with the Leftist Federation of Labor, on the subject of election and Constitution. This demand was rejected by DeGaulle - yesterday. And today, in a public . proclamation, he declared that it was necessary to change the Conatitution. Bes id the French political system must be altered to eliminate the weak spots that were partly responsible . for the fall of France. f{'His defi a nce of the radic 1 elements of the Left, ...,..--\ was uttered in a ringing phrase - "French men and French women - you are about to launch the Fourth Republic!" cried DeOaulle. Th e present Fren c h repub1· ic, 1 hi c h overthrown FR NCE - --------- y azi erm ny..,. an revive by the liberation of Fr nee, is counted as the Thir. An the drastic consti utional r vi ion ropo ed by eGaulle is indicted vividly by that hrase - "the Fourth Republic." E0ROPEAI 0RDERGROUrt) ---------- - s ington gives us some information about the work done by Allied secret agents in the winning of the European war. These agents 1 directed by the Office of Strategic Services, collaborated with the forces of the Onderground behind the Geraan lines, and helped the patriots• pave the way for Allied invasion. For exaaple, shortly after the D-Da7 inv.a•i~D of Rormandy, French patriot forces with equipaent supplied by Allied agents, were'in Qontrol of most of the peninsula of Britatny. Also -- nearly five thouaa American fliers, forced down in German controlled territory, were brought out b7 secret underground routes. And here' s a touch of melodrama!- When the German surrender in Italy was arranged, vne of the radio operators in the Nazi military headquarters was an agent employed by the OY'der of Strategic Service. Thro ug h his han d s · passed vital m e ss ages exchanged between German generals, an the s e he di sc losed ~0ROP~H ONDERGRQDND_.::_L secretly to the Allies. In t he course of the neg o t i at ions the Ge ra ans were required to liberate two Italian partisan leaders who lad been caught and condemned to death. They were prisoners of the Gestapo awaiting execution. The Germans. agreed to the condition, and turned loose the two partisan leaders. One was Ferruccio Parri -- and he today is the head ~f the Italian goveraaent, the Premier. J!O EL Here' an addition to the story of the Geraan com and r who ma e the moat brilliant reputati o n in the European war -- Field Yarshal Rommel, the old fox stated that R o ~ had a to kill Bitler.~This was . oonfiraed today by a German officer who was a ■eaber of the desert. It has been hand in the bomb conspiracy of Rommel's own stafi.1'8e stated that Rommel had a quarrel with Hitler over mili ary moves that followed the Allied landings in Normandy on D-Day, and thereupon Rommel j ■ la joined in the plot of other generals to blow up Bitler and make peace. Be says that Rommel, ~ i n g part in the~lanning of the bomb atteapt, ,, ' ' was ix not active in the a · 9tua~ p»i•i~ ~,1.1 f'b because, three days before the bomb explosion he was injured when an American plane made a strafing ~ attack ~8•ia~ the riding. 1';he place automobile in which Rommel was ~ F 4 ' C of the'injured~o ■ aet~as thereupon taken by Fi~ld Marshal von Iluge, who was Supreme Commander on the estern Front. Von Kluge later committ suicide by taking P••i•• poison, and the plot f a iled -- we've ~ (-,__ and ,t{■ xtaax\ heard previ o usly the stoJJ of how the injured Rommel was compelled to commit suicide when his p art in the preliminaries of the plot were discloaed. ~ -A---R- t.{--t--W\. '