Editorial: The Sino-Russian treaty
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Lawrence: Action on Lease-Lend bad diplomacy
Britain should have had time for transition
By David Lawrence
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Browns now appear greatest menace to Griffmen and Tigers
Nats hope to employ A’s series to gird for Yank tilts
By John B. Keller, Star staff correspondent
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The Pittsburgh Press (August 28, 1945)
Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Well, Congress is going back to work almost a month early, and I’ll bet they’re pouting. I know how children would feel if school started ahead of time. And Congressmen are just grown-up children. That is, some of them are grown-up.
Furthermore, I guess they know what’s coming. The Nazis and Japs are defeated, leaving nobody left to yell at but Congress. And Congressmen are even better targets than baseball umpires. You can call them names without paying for a seat in the grandstand and getting mustard on your best pair of gloves.
Anyway, the poor things had a nice vacation playing guitars and appearing in plays before it was time to answer the roll call and put an apple on President Truman’s desk. Good luck, folks, and don’t stand up going around the curves.
U.S. State Department (August 28, 1945)
800.515/8-2845: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union
Washington, August 28, 1945 — 6 p.m.
1923
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As wartime measure US, the other American republics, UK and probably most other nations at war with Japan have immobilized those assets within their jurisdictions which were owned or controlled by Japanese or by any persons within Japanese occupied areas. In last few days US and UK have requested neutral countries to freeze and take a census of all public and private assets included in foregoing. This action has resulted in extension by neutrals to Japanese assets of all controls already established for German assets.
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US will instruct Supreme Commander to require Japanese Govt to immobilize and take a census of (a) any property taken from Japanese occupied territory or from United Nations nationals by duress, wrongful acts of confiscation, looting, etc.; (b) all Japanese public and private foreign exchange and external assets of every kind and description, wherever the property or its owners may be located; (c) all assets located in Japan owned or controlled by persons in areas occupied by Japan at any time since 1894; (d) all assets public and private located in Japan and owned or controlled by Germany, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland or nationals thereof.
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This program must now be implemented by similar controls in the areas liberated from Japanese domination. Accordingly, you are requested to inform the Govt to which you are accredited of foregoing and to invite it to instruct its field commanders and other authorities in liberated territories to issue or have issued freezing and census regulations immobilizing (a) Japanese owned or controlled assets located in zones under their supervision; (b) all assets owned or controlled by any person whatever residing within such liberated areas where the assets are located in Japan or in any other place outside of the particular liberated area from which they are owned or controlled; and (c) all German and German satellite public and private assets located within the area.
Liberated areas in this connection include Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, Korea, Formosa and Ryukyus, Karafuto, Hongkong, leased territory of Kwantung, Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China (Empire of Vietnam), Malay States, Dutch East Indies, Portuguese Timor, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, Philippine Islands, Japanese Mandated Islands.
Repeated to Lisbon as 1409, Chungking as 1350, Paris as 4072 and The Hague as 122, and to London as 7384 for action and to Manila as 563 for information.
BYRNES
Hurley going to Yenan
LISBON (Domei, Aug. 27) – Major-General Patrick Hurley, American Ambassador to Chungking, today left Chungking for Yenan and is expected to return tomorrow with General Mao Tze-tung, Chinese Communist leader, and his party, according to a Reuters dispatch from Chungking.
General Mao has been invited by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to a conference in Chungking to discuss ways and means for bringing about a further unification of China.