PLAN FOR WARNING TO JAPAN

Chronicle (Levin), 11 April 1946, Page 5

PLAN FOR WARNING TO JAPAN

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l-iecexvtsil J.huxSuxy y.iiO p.m. lNnVV xiijxxi 10. The New 1 oxii xixnes L. . . . v , in it(iux"i,xuxx tx. oiiuinxixii ,s iiiooSi. jwb L»\J AidObij / viltj tilG ir Jitl' •••jixixxiutee vnifa snowii a uoiauuem, aun;rtmg tnac souie time buxtne tae x tj.nx iit.xfyuur actacn, at a aate not iixeu precxaeiy, tne Ausiraxiau x.mn„,or oi hxieinai Axiairs reporixu in aclaii to tiie Britisn Zeerbtary cf ncate ioixionixiiion Aiw.ii. s wnat i*ir. Booseveit mtendea to do as a waiiiing co o apan. Sem-.toj Forguson (iteuu'iLesn, ivntiixfe.an) claimea tuat tae- uocuiueac x..m (atea tiiat the Ausaaliaus had iiiiormaxioii wiiieh, uccording Lo eariioi c\itltace beiore the i'eari 1-arhour inqiury, v;as not in tne poosession oi the P.ate Uepartinent and was not known by the 1 iiierican puhlic untii teday. Representative MurpJay (Bemoorat, P •nnsyivania) protested that neither air. Gordell IIull nor Mr. S;anmer V/cllcs i.ad ever asked whother they h >.d such inforuiaticn. He - tormed S'*nator rerguson's refereuce unxair. The New York Times says the Australian document was nppcndacl to a propoiod British declaratioii that force or threat of force m Thaiiand by -Japan would he at her own peril, and that the British Gonmionwealth Govcrn:nents wovT imiir.diately taho all approprii;tsJ/,nTiircs. • This projected warning was .-.ent by Mr. Churchill to Mr. llooset elt for ' ' any connnents which thfi Piesident niay have," and was presented to the Dominion Governments for their conciu'rence or rejection. The availahlo evidence indicated that it l arhed Mr. Boosevelt not earlier than D 'ce-mber 7, 1941, but was shown to , tae Dominion representatives earhor. The document showed that the Aus- . f a'ian Minister, apparsntly referring to the declaratioii, sent the following , fb-spatch to the British Secretary for j Dominion Affairs in London: "Sioject; to the conditions that the President gives prior anprovali to the toxt of the W;n-ning as drafted, and also gives the sicnal for the nethal delivery of the ! warning, we concur in the draft as a joiut communication from all his Ma- 1 ,iesty'r, Governments. I nolnt out tio: a inessaae ,iust received from the ^-us-tr-'lmn ?linir.ter in Washington notes. i> v, that the President has decided | to send a hfote to the E^oueror; second - 1T\ the President 's suh^cciuent proce'lure is that, if no onw--er is received ht* hbn fi'o'm the Em.nernr bv Monday fo-pw'nsr. he will issue a warning on Tnesdav afternoon or night. and a j warninv or it,s equivale^t hy the British or others will not follow nnti) Wediio^dav morninp: that is, uutil after his I own warning has been delivered re- 1 pe.atedly to Tokio."