Salt Lake Telegram | 1946-06-21 | Page 4 | MacArthur Urges Diet to Study 'No War' Charter

M Urges to 10 Study No War Charier Charter TOKYO June 21 iff P Gen MacArthur MacArthur Mac Mac- Arthur urged the Japanese diet Friday to give full consideration political bias to the toe new no war constitution at what is isone isone isone one of the vital moments in the life Ife of ot Japan It i Is for the people of Japan he ie said In a formal statement acting through their duly elected representatives to o determine its form and content whether content whether it be adopted modified or or- rejected It was the second time the supreme supreme su- su preme reme commander had spoken out In n favor of ot the proposed constitution Ion tion which grants greater liberties to o the people He said that it had my full approval Appearing before the itself diet Prem Premier elY Yoshida shida in a glo gloomy speech on the state of the nation declared that that Japan Japan stood on the verge of ot starvation in the populous bus lous ous Tokyo area and in the far north While the sc sorely rely beset nation may be forced to call on the conquerors conquerors conquerors con con- for help the premier proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed that Japan launch a land development and reclamation program program program pro pro- gram to help solve its own dire food problem The newly elected diet found little solace in his address to the second days day's session for it dwelt at length on the manifold troubles of the nation which once stood supreme in the Orient For the sore spots of at labor relations rela rela- With with unions seizing plants to back their demands for higher wages to meet spiraling living Lt Yoshida promised government government govern govern- govern govern- men ment t mediation Japan 8 said saidY id Y Yoshida shida had undertaken undertaken undertaken under under- taken such reforms as freedom of ot speech thought and assembly but declared that that- the people must be strictly on guard lest we confuse lawlessness with liberty