Army Board blames Pearl Harbor disaster chiefly on two causes
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15 Jap officers yield great naval base at Yokosuka to Marines
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Navy must stop calling Japs ‘dirty little blank blanks’
By Malcolm Johnson, North American Newspaper Alliance
ABOARD A TROOP TRANSPORT EN ROUTE TO JAPAN (Aug. 28, By wireless–delayed) – Now that the war’s over, it’s no longer proper to speak harshly of the Japs, or call them names.
After Japan’s acceptance of surrender terms, the Navy issued the following directive applicable to all hands: “The use of insulting epithets in connection with the Japanese as a race or as individuals does not now become officers of the United States Navy…”
Where, one may well ask, does this leave Adm. “Bull” Halsey?
The youthful Marines en route to Japan heard this new directive with a groan.
“You mean we can’t say the Japs are dirty little blank blanks?” one asked.
“No, you can’t say that now,” the officer replied.
“But they are dirty little blank blanks,” the Marine protested.
“I know they are and we can still think it, but we can’t say in anymore,” the officer said.
The Pittsburgh Press (August 30, 1945)
Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
HOLLYWOOD – I see the Japanese call their Congress the Diet, which is even funnier than the names we call our Congress. I don’t envy the Diet one bit because they have to meet and try to explain the surrender nicely to the people.
It reminds me of the time I happened to run into a parked car. I explained to the owner that nobody would try to steal it now that the fenders were such a mess, but he didn’t think much of the explanation.
Maybe the Diet could tell their people there really wasn’t a war at all, and the whole thing was just something they ate. Anyway, for a ticklish job like this, the Diet ought to get in touch with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Anyone who can explain California weather can explain anything.
U.S. State Department (August 30, 1945)
711.94114A/8-2345
The Minister in Switzerland to the Secretary of State
Bern, August 23, 1945
[Received August 30]
No. 12385
The American Minister at Bern has the honor to refer to the Department’s telegram No. 1925 of May 29–8 p.m., concerning the treatment of American prisoners of war in Japan.
The Legation has now received a note dated August 21, from the Swiss Foreign Office which is based upon a telegram from the Swiss Legation at Tokyo. According to the note the Japanese Foreign Office immediately undertook an investigation on this subject which revealed that American prisoners of war do not labor under the conditions set forth in the Department’s telegram under reference. The Japanese Foreign Office expresses a desire to ascertain the source of the information on which the Department’s telegram was based.
The Swiss Legation adds that it has noted the contents of the Department’s telegram No. 2396 of July 26–8 p.m., but that it does not have the intention of communicating this to the Japanese Government.
The Syonan Shimbun (August 31, 1945)
‘All will be right when nation repents for wrongs of past’
Premier Prince Higashikuni’s press comment
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Imperial gift
TOKYO (Domei, Aug. 28) – It is revealed His Imperial Majesty the Emperor was graciously pleased to grant ten million cubic feet of lumber from the Imperial Forest for reconstruction of war-ravaged areas. Welfare Minister Kenzo Matsumura as proxy for Premier Prince Higashikuni today proceeded to the Imperial Household to receive the message.
American relief mission in Peking
PEKING (Domei, Aug. 29) – A party of 11 United States servicemen headed by Cawtin Newton arrived at the airfield in the western outskirts here at 12:20 p.m. on Tuesday on the mission of providing American war prisoners in Peking and Tientsin areas with food and clothing.
The Japanese authorities afforded full facilities for the successful accomplishment of their mission.
Salzburger Nachrichten (August 31, 1945)
Radio Tokio – amerikanischer Sender
Prinz Kuni kündigt Auflösung der japanischen Gestapo an
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Nazipressechef Dietrich verhaftet
NEW YORK, 30. August (OWI) – Einer Londoner Rundfunksendung zufolge, die in New York von der „Columbia Broadcasting Corporation“ aufgenommen wurde, gab das britische Hauptquartier in Deutschland Donnerstag bekannt, dass der ehemalige Presschef der Nazis Dr. Otto Dietrich, in der britischen Besatzungszone Deutschlands verhaftet worden ist.
Heß zum Abtransport bereit
LONDON, 30. August (OWI) – International News Service berichtet, dass Rudolf Heß, der frühere Stellvertreter des Fuhrers, „zum Abtransport innerhalb einer Stunde: bereitgestellt wurde, um nach Nürnberg gebracht zu werden, wo er sich als einer der Haupt-Kriegsverbrecher zu verantworten hat.
Edda Ciano verhaftet
LONDON, 30. August (Reuters) – Wie der Schweizer Rundfunk berichtet, befand sich Edda Ciano in Kento an der italienischen Grenze, und stellte sich den italienischen Behörden. In einer späteren Rundfunkmeldung heißt es, Edda Ciano sei, als sie die italienische Grenze erreichte, an die alliierten Behörden eberstellt worden.
100.000 Nazis in Bayern entfernt
MÜNCHEN (Radio Stuttgart) – Seit der Besetzung sind mehr als 100.000 Nazis und prominente Persönlichkeiten des Naziregimes aus öffentlichen Ämtern und Privatunternehmungen in Bayern entfernt worden. Die amerikanischen Besatzungsbehörden erklären, dass die freigewordenen Stellen in den Ämtern mit sorgfältig ausgewählten Nazigegnern besetzt wurden. Besitz und Eigentum der entlassenen Nazis wurden beschlagnahmt Deutsche Zivilisten mit einwandfreier Vergangenheit, die besonders ausgesucht wurden, verhören die Nazibeamten im Auftrag der amerikanischen Armee.