The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-22
BY LANES r. YOUNG

The first United Nations advisory
commission delegation. scheduled
to leave the Pacific coast this week
for Tokyo. will board a specially
equipped conference room Navy
ship, and upon arrival at their
destination the 80 delegates will
study the non-military problems in.
volyed in implementing the Pots
dam terms.
Unless there Is a last-minute az.
firmative decision, the Soyiets will
not walk up the gangplank with
the group, officially called the Far
Eastern Advisory Commission.
whose chairman Is DR.. II. V. Evatt.
Australian minister OF external af-
fairs.
The commissions trip follows the
abrupt ending of the visit OF the
Japanese Reparation Commission
headed by Edwin w. Pauley, whose
group could not enter Russian-con-
trolled Korea or Manch-ria. The
Soviets. | am told by a State De-
partment source, will not accept an
invitation for the present trip.
They hold that the Filipinos and
the Indians do not represent sover-
elgn states, that they are colonial
delegations.
The vessel will be floating In
ternational House, with Chinese,
Indians, Filipinos, Dutchmen, Eng
lishmen, Frenchmen. Australians,
Canadians, New Zealanders and
Americans. The ship will tie up 1T
docks In the various cities II visits,
the members living aboard in lieu
OF insufficient hotel quarters in
Japan.
A colorful veteran OF Far Eastern
affairs. Nelson T. Johnson. is sec
retary.general. He was once U. S.
ambassador to China and minister
to Australia. Many years ago he
was In our consular service in ia
pan and performed heroic rescue
missions when an earthquake level
ed Yokohama at noon Sept. l. 1928.
lie Is returning to Yokohama de
stroyed by American FIRE bombs.
Johnson should do well by the COM
mission in its contacts with Su-
prema Headquarters. He is a
Macarthur booster.
In the American delegation Is
Earle r. Dickover. who spent 20
years in State Department work
in Japan. Dickover can eat. sing
and whistle in Japanese. Joining
Dickover and Johnson in Tokyo
will be owen baltimore, who went
to Japan with the Pauley mission.
Iattimore's acquaintances, who
knew him in China when he wore
monocle, were astonished when he
turned up as chief economist"
with Pauley. Head OF the Ameri-
can delegation Is Mai Gen. Frank
r. Mccoy, who visited the Far East
with the Lord Iytton commission
sent out by the League OF Nations
in 1882 to investigate Japan's In
vasion OF Manchuria. He is prest
dent Of the Foreign Policy Asso-
citation.
The British section has Sir
George SAMSON. one OF less than
a half dozen British and American
authorities on Japanese industry,
agriculture. history and economics.
Sir George once astonished 200
Japanese businessmen at a Tokyo
Rotary Club meeting when he ad-
dressed them in japanese.
Representing so many different
governments having varying inter.
ests, the commission is an interest
ing experiment. Its delegates have
been told to ~ study and adopt
measures to provide adequate mill
tary security for all the countries
represented; ca create conditions
which will transform Japan into a
non.military participant in Pacific
affairs; (3) recommend basic con-
troll policies to cover political, edu-
cational and religious reforms,
economic and financial control, the
regulation OF exported manufacture
ed goods and imported raw mater
ials.
Sponsors OF the commission be.
lleve that II the 10 nation members
could cooperate to win the war
against Japan, they should cooper
ate in implementing surrender
terms-Russia excepted because. OF
the Soviet refusal to participate.
The commission, by a directive
from Secretary OF State Byrnes,
cannot make recommendations on
military affairs or make reports on
territorial adjustments" The lat
ter order | would interpret as ban
on discussing the future control OF
the Japanese-mandated Islands In
the South Pacific. The Mcclellan
resolution in the Senate. for Unit
ed States control OF those Islands,
is held up for discussion by Sena.
tor Tom Connally chairman Of the
Senate's Foreign Relations Com
mittee.
| understand that the commits.
sion, although its title covers the
Far East, will not investigate the
civil war OF China, the Dutch-Brit.
ish war against the Indonesians,
the smoldering Siamese problem
or the political Issues OF the land
OF liberated bedlam-Korea. The
commissions ship will likewise
steer clear OF the extremely I'M
satisfactory Philippine conditions
now developing.
The Far Eastern Advisory Com.
mission, therefore, in practice. will
be the Far Eastern Advisory Com
mission to Study Japan. With limi.
tatlons set. the members cannot
assess the problems Of freed coun.
tries in the Orient. The delegates,
II they have a chance to look back.
ward over their shoulders from To-
kyo. would see the rising fires W