MACARTHUR'S LONE HAND OBJECTED TO

Chronicle (Levin), 8 July 1947, Page 5

MACARTHUR'S LONE HAND OBJECTED TO

Received Mondav, 7 p.m. WASHIXGTOX, July 6. American-Australian relations, strained by Australian dissatisfaetion over United States' oeeupation policy in Japan, are boiling towards a major clash whon the Japanese peace conference is held, says the United Press. Diplomatic reports from Australia sliow that tlie fierv and blunt-spolcen Australian Minister of Extemal Aiiairs, Dr. Evatt, is more than ready to say many things in public that he has been thinking privately about the United States' unilateral direction of Japan. The basic trouble in American-Aus-tralian relations — whieh to date liave been left unsaid — is Australian resentment about the secondary position whereto it has been relegated in postwar Far Eastern affairs. Dr. Evatt believes Australia sliould play a leading role, if not the leading role, in the postwar policy towards Japan. He has never hidden his displeasure that General MacArthur runs Japan as a purely Ainerican show. Dr. Evatt, in a recent report to the Australian Parliament, appealed to Britain to retain a "real awareness" of wliat was happening in the Pacifie. He left unsaid that he thought the United States was taking over Britain 's former position there. Ainerican officials fear Dr. Evatt, at the conference of Dominions at Canberra on August 22, will seek to form a British Commonwealth bloc to oppose the dominant Ameriean position in Japan and at the future Japanese peace conference. Dr. Evatt has sent a series of protests to the United States Governnient about General MacArthur's ' ' policies.