| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS round up Japanese War leaders hog slaughter shows big D dip LP british seek financial aid a released by western newspaper union those 0 ct they are r in these columns columbi ni expressed EDITORS NOTE when opinions are this newspaper new and not necessarily of analysts western newspaper unions news s ano cysts N J NO g ap A Z 2 f ve 4 J wit with h britain seeking extensive american financial assistance consultations get under tinder way at state department with leading conferees including from left to right leo crowley foreign economic administrator lord halifax british ambassador william clayton assistant secretary of state lord keynes british economist an and henry dHenry A wallace secretary of commerce JAPAN round up war lords with high japanese war leaders taking their own lives as the american net gradually began to tighten around them the i nipponese government of premier higashi kuni assumed the responsibility for rounding up suspected war criminals in an effort to head off a mass suicide wave hidek tojo japans no I 1 war lord throughout most of the pacific conflict before enemy reverses forced his retirement ti ex premier hideki tojo tejo led off the suicide wave by attempting to take his life as american troops arrived at his country residence outside of tokyo to arrest him though tojo tejo misfired former war minister and army chief sugiyama used better aim to kill himself and ex welfare minister koizumi also succeeded in taking his life having first professed full responsibility lity for the war before trying to shoot himself tojo tejo shut up tighter than a clam following an improvement in his condition under the watchful eye of american medics refusing to talk on his sickbed sick bed the ashen 61 year old former japanese kingpin declared that he would not answer questions without documentary reference meanwhile capital c circles revealed that tojo tejo and other suspected japanese war criminals would have their unhappy day in court before a four power military tribunal similar to the one trying nazi overlords in germany representatives of the U S britain russia and china will comprise the tribunal which probably will sit in tokyo and as in the case of its european counterpart try foreign government leaders on the unprecedented charges of conducting wars of aggression in addition to trial on the novel c count of carrying on aggressive warfare japanese will be tried for such crimes as racial persecution torture of helpless people and murder of captured military personnel though not questioning the goal of bringing nazi and japanese overlords to justice many eminent american Axne rican lawyers have opposed the procedure for trial declaring that it establishes a precedent for kangaroo cour courts ts which might be used against allied personages in the future SLAUGHTER hogs down though slaughter of cattle and sheep during t the he first eight months of 1945 hit new tops for federally inspected plants butchering of hogs dropped oft off severely resulting in a continued tight meat situation only with an improved hog situation increasing the overall supply of meat did marketing experts look forward to an end of rationing with august slaughter at an eight year low the eight month hog production to away below the mark for the same period last year during the early part of september hogs continued to trickle into leading markets with shipments commanding ceiling prices partly offsetting decreased hog slaughter were record butche rings of cattle and sheep for the first eight months of the year with 9 cattle killed and sheep at the calf total was the second lareesa on record FOREIGN AFFAIRS 0 british ask aid in the U S to sell this country on the feasibility of offering financial assistance to britain ambassador halifax and economist keynes declared that a prosperous brita britain in 1 getting its great exporting and importing machinery going at full blast would help assure the stability so necessary for postwar peace should britain fail to secure sufficient fici erit aid to rebuild its industry and obtain raw materials for processing into finished goods goads halifax and keynes pointed out the whole intricate system of exchange among nations would be affected leading to social disturbances the world over and another outgrowth of isms iams thus in approaching the U S on a basis of mutual conce concern rue the british came over as practical statesmen and not as beggars further they disclaimed any an int intention entin of seeking an easy way out by negotiating interest bearing loans but rather stated that they were opposed to any type of debt of a burdensome nature which like world war I 1 obligations would have to be eventually repudiated in shying from the idea of an interest bearing loan the british left the w way a Y open for an outright grant which would be strongly bucked here or a long range interest free advance shape italian treaty while the british talked dollars in washington D C the big five council of foreign ministers continued discussions in london concerning the future political and territorial rit orial makeup of postwar europe with the diplomatists occupied with drawing up an italian peace treaty foremost of the problems associated with an italian treaty was the disposition of the count rys north african colonies with the british reportedly frowning on the american proposition for permitting the italians to retain their territories under a united nations trusteeship As the eternal jockeying tor for protective boundaries and rich interests cropped up the british were said to favor avor italian retention of only western libya while taking for themselves eastern libya covering eg egypt apt and italian Soma liland fronting the gateway to the vital red sea leading to the suez cinal canal at the same time the french re port edly sought a slice of northwestern libya from italy to strengthen their own tunisian holding but if the disposition of italian colonies posed a big problem so did di d the readjustment of italis european borders with france out for a readjustment of the alpine boundary and yugoslavia hot for annexation of the strategic peninsula with its rich port of trieste As the meeting progressed the big five were said to have considered a compromise under which italy would relinquish the peninsula jutting into the adriatic sea but retain trieste itself with U S and british pressure for free and open elections in romania and bulgaria already having forced the communists hands in in those countries yugoslav and greek rightists next came to the fore at the foreign ministers conference to request intervention in the political affairs of those balkan states to assure a fair and peaceful democratic representation |
