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U.S. brains behind bayonets too much for poor Japs
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Japs worried by Russia’s future move
Papers speculate on Big Three action
SAN FRANCISCO, California (UP, July 14) – Jap newspapers today speculated uneasily upon the future role of Russia in East Asia and predicted most of the “time and effort” of the forthcoming Big Three conference would be to decide upon Russia’s course in Asiatic affairs.
The Tokyo Yomiuri Hochi, in an editorial which was broadcast by Radio Tokyo, said:
The powers cannot be balanced among the three nations of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union… in Europe alone. In regard to this problem, Asia cannot be absolutely ignored. The interest held by the Soviet Union toward East Asia is very energetic.
Puzzled by Russia
Aside from the problems of ideology and territory, the Soviet Union’s attitude is as before a dark cloud and a puzzle.
It can be assumed, therefore, that the greater portion of the time and effort will be spent in puzzling out this great dark cloud of the Soviet Union and it is the solving of this problem that will determine whether the United States and Britain will have been successful in the conference.
Domei News Agency in another broadcast quoting what it said was a Stockholm dispatch, said the visit of China’s premier, Dr. T. V. Soong, to Moscow was “closely related” with the recent visit to the Kremlin of Harry Hopkins, former special envoy of President Truman.
Manchuria cited
Yomiuri Hochi alleged, according to Domei, that the United States and Britain were “pushing for a settlement of the Manchurian fortifications issued with the intention… of nailing the Soviet Union’s accumulated total strength on the border of Japan and thereby alleviating Soviet pressure against Europe.”
The Domei dispatch said Yomiuri Hochi also quoted a London dispatch saying that “prospects are bright” at the Big Three meeting for Russia “to abandon her hitherto passive attitude and adopt an aggressive one toward Japan.”
Yomiuri Hochi, according to Domei, interpreted this dispatch as “showing clearly” that the United States and Britain “were endeavoring to persuade Premier Joseph Stalin into aggressive intervention against Japan.”
‘Cancer’ of policy
The Jap newspaper called the “uncertainty of the Soviet Union’s policy toward Japan the ‘cancer’ of the Anglo-American policy vis-a-vis the disposal of Germany and other European people.”
Yomiuri Hochi quoted what it called another Allied dispatch as declaring that plans for dealing a “crushing blow to Japan will constitute the subject of chief discussion” at the Big Three meeting.
Domei said Yomiuri Hochi had claimed that the Allied dispatches referred to were only “efforts on the part of the Anglo-Americans to intimidate Japan, paralleling American bombing and reparations for invasion of Japan from the north and south on the one hand, and inducing the Soviets to participate in fighting Japan on the other.”
Moscow parleys please Chinese
Soong, Stalin will review talks later
LONDON, England (UP, July 14) – Chinese quarters in Moscow are satisfied with preliminary results of the conversations between Chinese Premier T. V. Soong and Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin, it was reported today.
The talks, now adjourned because of the Big Three Berlin conference preparations, are expected to resume in about three weeks.
Soong left Moscow for Chungking early today after being guest of honor at a Kremlin banquet given by Stalin. The banquet was one of unusual cordiality, a Moscow dispatch said.
The talks between Soong, Stalin, and other Chinese and Soviet leaders had lasted for almost two weeks.
Because the talks began before the Big Three meeting, London observers had speculated that they had covered subjects requiring the consideration of the Big Three powers. Some suggested that this might mean Russia’s active military participation in the war in the Far East.
The fact that they will resume after the Big Three meeting, however, is taken as an indication that the talks concerned Russo-Chinese future relations rather than any critical, immediate problem.
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