JAP WAR MACHINE SMASHED

Chronicle (Levin), 31 August 1946, Page 5

JAP WAR MACHINE SMASHED

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GENERAL MACARTHUR REPORTS ON PROGRESS .... _ .. _

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Received Saturday, 10.20 a.m. TOKIO, August 30. General MacArthur on the anniversary of his landing in Japan on AugTust 30, 1945, in a l.ong report, says Japan's military machine has been destroyed, her war-marking industrial power has been taken over, her business monopolies have been broken up and democratic forms of Government instituted. The military liquidation required the disarming and, disposing of approximately 4,000,000 personnel in the home islands and 2,500,000 abroad, while 2,000,000 civilians had to be returned from overseas, whereof the last remnants were now streaming home. The new constitution, designed to place sovereignity squarely in the hands of the people, bestows a full measure of human freedom. The masses are no longer regimented and enslaved and the average Japanese no longer cringes in the presence of the police or public authority. His home has become his castle. Unjust labour praetices have been abolished. The 18,000,000 Japanese children enrolled in 40,000 public schools enjoy free education. Agrarian reforms will enable 2,000,000 tenant farmers to purchase the lands they work, thus correcting one of the notorious evils which has long plagued agricultural workers. • • General MacArthur concluded: "The task is by no means complete, but a decisive advance towards the major objectives has been achieved."