The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-05

Jewish synagogue in Cairo is a ma by Egyptian Arabs during riots G Hundreds were wounded in police me China could not produce enough to support itself for five years and that American aid in addition to UNRRA support was necessary.
 Stampede Talked About Everywhere you go throughout the Far East you are impressed by the great stampede to go home. It is moving day - everybody is on the move or talking about it. The rapid cessation of our munitions manu- lecture parade of bombers homeward across the Pacific leaves some some of the regular army, navy and air force officers, whose careers are still in the Pacific areas, somewhat in dither.
 One such officer, whose duties are identified with maintaining an important air base in the Pacific told me that for the present at least 1t was almost impossible to operate in an orderly fashion since he seemed to have new staff daily. Our vast stores of surplus war supplies in the Pacific, and this includes housing facilities, gasoline, vehicles, etc, are evidently going to be turned over to Allied and friendly powers as rapidly as ''possible"5.
 MacArthur Praised
 Regarding General Macarthur. Baillie said that after observing | fhn nap1lnnfiAt, AF weeks, am frank to say that I have great admiration for General MacArthur, who is a soldier turned statesman. administering - through a relatively small armed force-a conquered nation with a puppet em- peror, puppet cabinet and puppet police.
 With regard to Hirohito, there is certainly room to believe the em- peror feels his position is insecure. General MacArthur's very carefully chosen words concerning his per- manence, that his retention during the surrender and demobiliNng steps is serving its full purpose, certain ly would contribute to the feeling that he is there on sufferance. The period of surrender and de- mobilization. incidentally, is pretty well past. However, I do not think that General MacArthur nor the higher levels from whom General MacArthur told me he is taking his directiyes, want to see the emperor forced out or the imperial institu- tion changed except through due voting process, if at all.
 Japan in Complete Collapse
 Tn my talk with the Emperor he impressed me as being quite nervous.
 ''The disappearance of Japan as a nation and the inability of China to replace 1t in the economic scheme of things for at least five years" Baillie said, "has of course created & situation in trade and commerce which must be reckoned with.
 T am surprised at the lack of comprehension even now of the ex- tent to which Japan has been smashed. You have only to turn to General MacArthur's own words in this connection for the complete picture when he said to me, Japan industrially, commercially, militarily and in every way is in a state Of complete collapse. Her resources ot every kind are absolutely exhausted, Her food supplies are scant and she faces conditions of emergency that may well become catastrophe. Her punishment for her sins which Is just beginning will be long and bitter
 Industries Smashed
 This utteranee of General Mae Arthur's would seem to cover the situation and 1t concurs with my own observation. Yet since leaving Japan 1 have been asked by some people what I think about the future of Japanese industrial bonds. It seems hard for people who actually haven't seen the ruins to assimilate the fact that not a sindle in the former great textile mills Of Japan is turning.
 "As for their silk industry, it is defunet to such an extent that some Japanese told me they had actually eaten the silk worms in order to keep alive. Japanese are fiocking back from the country to the wreekage Of their cities where they live in improyised shacks, without sanitary facilities, If there Isn't an epidemic of some sort this winter 1t will be a miracle,
 "On top of this We are shipping back to Japan the emigrants who went abroad from that country to settle in Korea, China and other lands which the Japanese over ran. These people are going to be dumped back home as fast as ships can be found to carry them and they will be left to shift for them selves under the most primitive cons ditions.
 Among the Japanese civilians the presence of the demobilized Jap soldiers is now quite noticeable, They look in excellent physical cons diti0n, They are still wearing their uniforms but they appear to have nothing to do except lounge around in idleness, and there are three million Of them.
 When Jap goes to get his job back he frequently is not only unable to find his former employer but in many cases he can't even And the building in which his place of employment was located, and he will be lucky if he can even approximate the street 1t was on, 90 great is the extent of the dam age"