CHEERED IN EIRE

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 8

CHEERED IN EIRE

New Zealand Soldiers Rec. 11.15 a.m. LONDON, July 25. The Exchange Telegraph agency's Dublin correspondent says New Zealand soldiers were cheered in Dublin, Tipperary, and Cork when for the first time they entered Eire in uniform. The High Commissioner, Mr. Jordan, recently secured permission .from the Eire Government for New Zealand service men and women .to. visit Eire fn uniform. Hitherto no uniforms had been allowed to .be worn in Eire, but in view of the large number of New Zealanders desiring to visit the country, and difficulty in obtaining mufti," ■the, Eire Government removed the .ban. ' niiiimiiiiiiiimmiiitimimiiiiHiiiiimimiiiiiiiniiiiiiimiiiii ...-Mi*. Churchill dropped a "Pacific ■war bombshell" when, after returning . from. Berlin, he announced that Ad- * niiral Mountbatten had been at Potsdam and had conferred with the Big ' Three. This disclosure, says the "Daily Express" diplomatic correspondent is the first official indication that Generalissimo Stalin discussed the conduct of affairs in the Far East with Messrs. Churchill and Truman. At the \ previous conferences of the Big Three Stalin withdrew each time when the conduct of the war against Japan was being, discussed, because Russia was still at'peace with-Japan, It can be assumed, says tlje correspondent, since the .British Chiefs of Staff also returned with Mr. Churchill, the discussions with Lord Louis Mountbatten on Far East affairs will be continued in London. According to the American magazine, "Newsweek," Stalin took a Japanese peace offer to the Potsdam conference. Inter alia, as the price of Russian non-intervention, the Japanese offered to withdraw from Manchuria in favour of Russia and also offered to recognise the principle of the independence of Indo-China/ Burma, and the Philippines, and to submit to an American occupation of Korea and Formosa, on the sole condition that the Japanese home islands should not be invaded or occupied. "Newsweek" says that Mr. Widar ;Bagge, the retiring Swedish Minister •to: Japan, transmitted to Washington last May a Japanese request for clarification of the unconditional surrender formula and that Mr. Bagge's action was the peace feeler referred •to by Mr. Grew on July 10.