HEALTHY SIGNS AND FORWARD STEPS

Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 5

HEALTHY SIGNS AND FORWARD STEPS

Received Sundav, R.20 p.iri. TOKIO, July 13. While app land ing Japlin's political development, General- AlacArthur, in his latest, report on the occupation, dec.lafes that the nation is not yet ready i'or an uncetisoPed Press. Poiniing out thtit the censorship was designed to ensure that former niili- | taristie and ultranationalistic infiu- , eiices were not aguin tmposed on the Press atid other niedia of information, 1 General AlacArthur says - that, while silbstantial sectionS of the Press subseribed to the Hup'r'ehie Uommand's censorship codes, theie were nunlerous j indications that tlie time had not yet ! titri v ed for a relaxation of the iegula1 tions. Attenipts were being continued I to justify the Japatiese war position ; and the Press were beginning to hint j that heavy reparations were. unfair. General AlacArthur cites the forma- ! tion of the Yosliida Oabinet as another 1 i'orward step in the development of a ; norma! healthv Parliamentary situai tion, because it was carried out openlv j and by deinocratie methods. Relations S between the Allied personnel and civil- ; ians c-ontinued to be satisfavtory with i a Jow rate of crimes against the occupation forces. Twenty thousand new houses were lieing built monthly.