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The story o f t e failure oft e London
Conference
w
s
told to ay in the Briti
h
Hue
of
Commons.
Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin did
the
reporting - and
he
is
a forthri ht plain
talker.
Bevin related that on
September
Eleventh, the
day the Council of
Foreign
Ministers began,
he
a.
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proposedA.....~..ln
the framing of treaties with
foraer
enemy
sattelites, the decisions should be made by
~
the nations
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WGJ
a='-•
sign~e treaties.
But -
that all the Foreign
inisters in the conference
should participate in
the
discussions.
Bevin stated today that this was
in
accordance with the Potsdam Agreement -- made by
Stalin,
Truman and
Attlee.
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for
The Bevin
proposal was
im ediately okayed
b
the
American Secre
ry of
t te B
rn
e
s.
And
olotov
gave
his
okay, conceding that the procedure
propose
was
in
accordance with the
Po
sdam Agreement
of
the Big
Three.
Today Bevin stated:
"The proposal which
I
ma e was adopted without
dissent."
And so, under that procedure, they
went
ahead -
for ten
days,
during w
ich
time the Council
held sixte~n plenary meetings.
On the
subject
of
a
p~ace tre
ty
ith Rumania,
there was a
wide
difference of opinion -- the United
States refusing to
sign
any pact
with
the
pre
ent
Soviet
sponsored
g
overnment of Rum
nia,
hicb the
United
tates does
not
con i
er
to
be::::i,:emo:err:-tite
..!!
ttl:d.
c
h
osen
by
free election.
olo
ov w
c
not
having
is
yin
the
matter of Rum
nia,
a
nd maybe
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3.
that was the reason for wh t the eupon happened -
the bombs ell.
It exploded on September T enty-~econd,
when
.
Molotov stated to
·
B
y
rnes
and
Bevin that the procedure
under
which
they
had
been
deliberating
was in violation
of the Potsdam Agreement of the Big Three.
And he
declared th the
would
not continue on that basis.
Byrnes and Bevin
were
stonished at the sudden change.
They tried to
argue Molotov
out of
his
new
position.
"I pointed out to him,• said Bevin
oday, •that
~a
had all agreed at our opening meeting that this was
the way in which
e intended to work.•
But MolQtov
refused to budge.
Why had Molotov changed
h
is mind?
Today
Bevin
stated:
"He told us later that
his
new
attitude was
taken up on instructions from
ris
government.•
As f o r t e reason
why
the
Soviet
overnment
acted
as
it did - we can only guess.
The
British
Foreign
Secretary stated
o
ay
that
they tried to break t
e deadlock, b
referr
i
ng
t e
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uesti~n of procedure to the he
s o f t
e
governmentsd
the Big Three.
They
aueried
President Truman,
ri e
Minister Attlee, •nd
Generalissimo
talin.
In
reply, Truman
and
Attlee
supported
t e position
taken by Byrnes and Bevin.
Molotov ch nge of
attitude.
talin backed
tr.Be
As a last
meas1re,
the Foreign
Ministers
tried
to agree at least on an announcement to be made
about what the conference had bemdoing - a public
report.
t~t, inst
r
to be
ad been ·n operatI
n
FOREIGN
MINi
t.
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ran
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l i ~
t ey
agre
Then Molotov
injected
a new one.
He stated that
before he
would sign any
of
the
repo ts on the
conference, the Council must
strike
from its record
all
mention
f
the
agreement
on
procedure
that e
had
made
in the first pl ce.
In other
words,
falaify the
record - by rubbin out the
greement that Molotov
had
made,
so as to cancel his c ange of attitude
ten days later.
"This in effect,• s~id the British
Foreign Secretary today, •would not have given a
true record of our proceedings."
Byrnes and Bevin refused to do it, and that
was the end - the Counc·1
of the Forei~n
Ministers
breaking up without even issuing an announcement of
what they had done.
GREECE
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The government of Athens h
q
uit, Premier
Voul
aris
a
nd his Cabinet Ministers handing in their
resiptiona today.
This follows
a
Left ling move a
g
ainst election•
.
that the goYernment had scheduled for January T•enty-fittb
••
Leaders
of
the
Elas,
the party of the L£ftiat
ine
urrecti
OI\.p.
aeveral
months
a
go...,
aent a protest againat
the elections to President Truman,
Pri ■e
Miniater
Attlee
and head of the French
GoYern■ant
DaGaull•• Ond
{ij~
i n f o r m e d ~ ~ that the election would
be
A
boycotted. The
!las
1 and other fact ion• too., would
ai ■plJ
stay
away
fro ■
the poll• they said.
The Premier
today
stated that such a
boycottt'ould make the e
l
ections a farce, and ao
ha
resigned.
This follows word that the United ~tates had
planned to
send
hundreds of American soldi~rs to Greece
to observe
th~
election, and see how democratic~
mi
g
ht
turn
out to
be.
LAVAL
----
This
afternoon
in P r i , the c er
k
of a court
ent to a prison cell, end there confronted a haggard,
swarthy
man
-
Pierre
,ava
,
arch pro-Nazi
ollabox-ationiat
of
t:IR Vichy
.eose1a.11w11t
:
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Solemnly
the clerk of tQe curt
tnnounced
to Laval - that the
jury
had found
hi
guilty
of
treas
o
n,
and
Lava] mutte~e4:
•1 was
xpecting
it.
I
ahall
not aign any
appeal
for
■ ercy.•
The only a peal that he could make
ould be to
General DeGaulle, head of the French Government, and
uniYarsal belief is that DeGaull£
would
reject the
aa Laval himself believes, no doubt. So th•
yrobabilities are that Laval,
lon
so prominent in
Fr nch
politi
!
s, will b~
executed
by a firing squad.
ieiay'L
decree of ieoa follewed ano~her eL
/_
/
efore
.
the
/
y
w
sider its ferdict,
/
had ref
to
tify.
/
ae
was
/
l r
mer
rench :Ambassadoi- to a
1;aw.
ev
ae
7
•
.
ainst
L
L.
he
/
began
b
reciting hi
own
patr tic
caree
~
I»••••
th rrench resi
vement
a ainet
(.
az~
/
/
af er
h
ving
/
day because
of
yellin outbreaks
he
attend &Rother ses& on.
ence wa,
1
the reason
to Ware (
refused
t
I'
hat the
f
rmer Fren
f
~av.l
career o es much
to t,stify
t/.aval. •
hia
The trial of the arch collaborationist is being
angrily denounced in French newspapers - even in those
that are bitterl; a ainst Laval. They say that the
court
p
roceedin
e were
turned into a
r
·
arce, with both
the
prosecutor
and the jud e contribut·ng to
scenes
of
uproar an
d
excitement - in a parady of a trial.
In G
erma
ny the bea
s
t of Bel
se
n admitted
today that
he pe
sonally
had turned
on
the
gas
jets
in the mass execution of prisoners. Jo
s
eph Ira er,
s.
sto
1
id
wooden
figure at the trial
bi
therto, b
m
ke
under a ••iplash cross-examination and admitted be
had driven wretched
ax
victims into the gas chamber
and then turned on the
gee
jets. This cliaaxes the
confessi
o
ns that have been read before
a
British
court
at
tuenebur1,German7
.,.-c r
i
uinala
of
wa~•zt ■i••~
guilty of
-- the first aajor trial
the lazi atrocitiea.
News
comes
through of wh
t
appears to be
the
first
Nazi underground
movement
in
actual operation.
~
not
any
case of melodramatic
Werewolves,
but
a
~
start and brutal affair in
gri ■
and forbidding country -
a virtual No
Man's
Land.
le are told that the Nazi underground
i•
operating in the vicinity of the once great Baltic port
ot
Stettin. That area and that city were turned over to
Poland by the Yalta Agreement
of the Big Three, and the
1chedule is for the German population to be evacuated,
and Poles
■oved
i ~ e country along the Baltic th•r•
was horribly ravaged b7 war, and once flourishing
ia a
■ asa
of ruins.
Cold w•ather is
closing
down on
the bleak aho~e of the Baltic - making things still
aore forbidding. And that's where an underground
organization
of German terrorists is described as being
in ferocious operation - against the Polee.
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Recently,
the
occupyin
forces
of
the Red Army
~
moved
out,
and
Polish
authorities came
in.
1bey are
/\.
described
as
being virtually helpless.
Armed bands
of
Germans
are
prowling,
and fighting regular pitched
battles against the
Poles.
They say that every night
the ruins_.t,:tettin echo with scattered gunfire.
5o;:,:;
~olish settlers are moving in, although
the land is now supposed to be theira.-lbey are afraid.
Geraans
of the ordinary sort are moving out
of
their
own
accord,
wanting to got away from the terror-haunte4
region.
acqv.i•ed.
territ»ery
·
aPe1u1cl
St.e\\ia -
•iolent as
it
ie
w'1tll
Qar■ ••
•a~ergreuacl r••i•tasaae
;
·
They •••
ealllag
:::tt
'-Polaa~'
I Will le1!11s. •
The
new Tokyo Premier a
n
o
unces
an eight point
program
of
ref
o
rm - in
accordance
with the terms of
surrender of Japan -
he eight
points
coverini varioua
ph
as
es of deaocracy and civil liberty.
Baron Shidehara,
in a talk with American newsmen, stated that the
great
war-making industrial firms
of
Yitsui and Mitsubishi~
w1111
--b,&tbe
broken up -
by
legislation.
Be was not so forthright on the subject of -
Shintoisa, the imperial state religion.bl
Ja11•ns.
It was announced that one of
a.neff'i. MacArthur•• taata
would be to abolish fanatic
relisiou■
nationali•• in
religion, and soaetimes this is regarded as an intention
to eradicate Shintoisa altogether - although we all
understand what a ticklish thing it is to tr7 to
suppress a religion~he new Premier
i
today •arned that
any rash taapering with
Shintoia ■
might cause
disturbances among the masses of people in Japan, and
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he dec
lar
ed th
a
t the evils that gre
out of the state
religion bad be~n
caused
by
wh
a
t he c
a
ll~d -
•distortions.•
In other words, !ojo and his fellow
warlords had perverted the n a t i o n a l ! ' - ~ to suit
their own purposes of aggression.
Sbidehara denied
that the war policy and war crimes of Japan could
be
attributed to the essential beliefs of
Sbintoi•••-
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JAPANE
I':
LOOT
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Here's an astonishin
thin
ab
o t t
he latest
American seizure of treasure
in
Japan -
MacArthur's
troops ta ing ove
some twelve aillion dollars' worth
of
gold,
silver and platinum
at
the headquarters of the
Japanese Army and Navy. The Tokyo
govern
m
entr itself,
didJ•t
know
about the existence
of
t/.oard of preciolltl
1t
-
metals.
All
th9' wealth was stored
away
in building•
:;j"'~
occupied by the Army and Navy.
Where
did
they get
it?
"
The belief is that the treasure was looted from countrie•
occupied by the
Jape
during the
f.
·
'
war. The twelYe million
dollars' worth seized today brings the total of Japaneae
treasure taken over by MacArthur to the huge
aua
of
two hundred and fifty million dollars, much
of
it
believed to be loot.
In eddition to the surprising disclosure that
the tokyo
government
did not know about the treasure
hoards in the possession of the Army
and
Navy, the
American military authorities
came
upon still another
,
JlPANESE LOOT -
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astonishment~ the fact that the
Jap armed forces
had not
given any accounting of the money they spent. They just
drew what
they wanted, and never handed in
any
boolkeepin1
to
ahow where the
money went1f:hat
systea
of
Army finance
had
_
been going on ever since the beginning
of
the war in
China. Today an American spokesman declared:
•we
were
astounded to learn that the Army and Navy had not
reported any expenditure since Nineteen Thirty-Seven.•
ltlleb W
f2n
indication
of
the freedom
of
action the
warlord•
bad - the
Japanese
govern■en..t.al
aethoda
that
led to the launching
of
the disastrous adventure of war.
Admiral Nimit& had
·
is ovation in
New
York today -
immense aultitudes of the metropolis lining the streets
ae he drove
by.
Their cheers were still another triuapb
for the commander of the Navy in the victory over
Japan.
ARGENT INA
--
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In Aj:
ge
n
t
ina,Pe
ro
n ha
s r
e
s
i
g
n
e
d.
The
Numb
~
r
One
figure in the
g
ov
e
rnm
e
n
t
of the Colonel
s
, which has been
so
s
cathin
g
ly den
o
unced
as
a
Fascist, outfit1
tod
a
y
gave
up
hi
posts
as
Vice Pre
si
dent, Minist
e
r
of
War,
iu
and
'
Secret
a
ry
of
Labor.
The
announcement ofAPeron's
r
e
signation is accompanied
by
a governme
.
nt statement
-
that electi
o
ns
are
to be called -- the
Apgentine
people
~
go to
the
polls
next A~ril.
This is
late news
and it isn't
clear
what
it
all means.--
Gsi
the
s
urface it might appear to be an
end of the diotat orship in
A19gent
ina and a turn toward
Th
e
tomic
bomb director
s
t
a
ted today: "
e
are
fl•
flirting with
national suicide
if this thing gets
out
of
control.•
Major
G
e
ne
ra
l Grov
es
, Director of
the
roject that developed the atomic bomb, made this
declaration to
a
Military Affairs Committee of
the
Bouse of Representatives.
He appeared as a witness
in
favor of setting
tp
a
Congressional Commission for
atomic development as Presid~nt Truman has
reco ■ aen4ecl.
•In irresponsible hands,• declared General
Groves,
•the
power of the atom might destroy the
world.•
But, at the
same time,
the release of
ato ■ ic
energy
aay,
in his words -- •prove
·
to be the
greatest
boon
to
mankind
in the world's history.• So bis advice is
th is: •The
greatest
11in
d
s
of
our nation,•
says he,
•will be required to administer this discovery for the
bene
f'
it of all of us.•
The atomic-boab;Director indi:ated that it
was possible for some other nation to develop the
-
elemental
weapon in peacetime without our knowing
about
it.
"The biggest secret of
all,"
said
he,
"is
the
ATO
I
C
BO
ffl
- - - - -
The
a
tomic bomb director
st
ted
today: "
e
are
fl•
flirting
ith
nati
o
nal
suicide if
thi thing gets
out of control."
Major
Gene
ra
l Grove, Director of
the
roject that developed the atomic bomb, made this
declaration to
a
M
ilitary Affairs Committee of the
House of Repre
sen
tatives.
He
appeared
as
a witness
in favor
vf
setting up a Congressional Commiasion for
atomic development as Presid~nt Truman has
reco11aente4.
"In irresponsible bands," declared General
Groves,
"the
power of the atom might destroy the
world.•
But, at the
same time,
the release of
atoaic ener11
may,
in his words
--
•prove to be the
greatest
boon
to
mankind in the world's history.• So his advice is
th is: "The
greatest
minds of our nation,• says be,
"•ill
be required to administer this discovery for the
benefit of all of us.•
The ato11ic-bollbi,Director in~ated that it
was
possible for
some
other
nati
o
n to develop the
-
elemental weapon in peacetime without our
knowing
about it. "The biggest secret of all,"
said
he, "is the
~ -
skill and ~how of the Ame rioan worker, which I
don't
think
any
other
nation
has.• But he qaalified
(
,.
If
you never can tell.
D
Here's General Patton again --
he
predicts
that
another
war ia
ineYitabla. Old Blood and Gata toda7
took
his new Jolt, tbe
oo ■■and
ot
the Fifteenth Arllf
~ - - 4
-
~ 6
•
ara7
on pap~r.
~
ode a
speec~--A
ducri'bd
people
who
8Abeli•••
that all are are
finished•• --
•wishful
thinkers.
~
refused to ate an~ guesa aa to who
woald tight in the next war --
and
on which a
I.de. le
put the questi
o
n
ira
T
lYid
Patten
words -- •who except
God,•
he
de■ anded,
•1a oapable of telling when or
where the
ai tuation
will occur that will deYelop
another
aad ■aa~
And
who can
tell,'
he added, •whether
the tature aadaan la now tull1, clothed, ia abort pants;
or in diap era?•
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