U.S. Plans To Put Japan On Its Feet

Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1949, Page 5

U.S. Plans To Put Japan On Its Feet

Reeeived Tuesday 7.20 p.m. NEW YORK, May 23. The United States is determined to push strdngly ahead with plans for the iconomic rehabilitatioli of Japan, despite somes donbts and ob'jeetions^ by oth er Allied Powers in the - Paciflc, it i; 'earned from authoritative sourees, re porta the New York Times1 V/ashington 'orrespoiident. The authorities do no. •egard the fulfilment of the United Sta ies plans for Japan as constituting a langer to other and smaller Paciflc povers since -indilstrial reconstruction and jossible small scale rearmament woiild be under United States supervisiou, Both Australia and the Philippines art uiown to fear that, without a continu ■;d punitive policy, Japan''cOuld again jecome an aggressive threat to, the Pa :ific. General Eichelberger, former comnander of United States Eighth Ariu.v mder General MaeArthur, said it would >e ineonceivable that the United State* .vould break faith with Austraiia, the 'hilippines or Japan herself, by with IraWal from the Western Paciflc before he job was done. The task, as outlined n the Potsdam declaration, was the es ablishment of a denlocratic, selfsup porting and non-aggressive Japan. Uu der this colistritetion of the United Sta „es policy, Australia and the Philippine . would enjoy a virtual United, Statelaarantee that the rebuilding of Japan lould be helped witflin pounds suftic. ont to relieve the burden on the Amcri ;an taxpayer but would not be permit,ed to progress so far as to constitute u nenace in'Asia. Japan herself woul: on assured that there would be no piiek reversal of the United States pi;o ■ramme that would force a det'eated ua .ion to shift for itself in the face of Jie spread of communism on the Asittic continent aiid the hostility oi '*or Mer'Pacifie enemy- n'ations.