Evening star., 1945-07-22
u. S. Warns Jops to Surrender
Immediately as Only Salvation;
Enemy Looks for Easier Terms
Report Thot Big ;
Is Studying Policy
Guins Credence

An OIIlCldl government SpOkeS-
man last night warned the Jap
anese that their only salvation
lay in immediate unconditional
surrender, as reports gained
credence here that President
Truman was discussing with
Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stain in PotSdam a new
declaration of policy toward the
enemy.
Government monitors meanwhile
picked up a japanese broadcast
predicting that the President would
modify the demand for uncondi-
tional surrender in response to more
conservative elements in the United
States.
The American spokesman, Capt.
E. c. Zacharias, U. S. n, who ad-
dressed Jap war leaders in their
own language on an OWI-sponsored
broadcast, pointed out that surren-
der now would give Japan the bene-
fits Of the conditions prescribed in
tle Atlantic Charter.
Attempt to Explain Terms.
If Japan should initiate the ces-
2tion of hostilities without further
clay" he said, lit may be assumed
hat 1t will be the United States
':hich will enforce and insure the
peace"
Although the owl short-wave
broadcast is the twelfth in a series,
it is the first to be translated and
released to the American press
owl said there was no particular
significance in this fact, and that
the speech had been released in
response to inquiries for a general
press release.
The speech was interpreted by
some persons, nevertheless, as an
attempt to explain unconditional
surrender to the American people
as we'll as to the japanese.
Capt. Zacharias, who broadcast
as IAN official spokesman of the
United States Government" is on
special duty with the Commander
in-Chief of the United States Fleet.
He began studying japanese when
he was naval attache to the Ameri-
can Embassy in Tokyo in 1920. He
was sent back to Tokyo as acting
attache in 1928. The naval officer
acted as an aide to Prince Taxa
matSu, second son of the Emperor
of Japan, when the latter visited
Washington in 1881.
Limit to American Patience.
Capt. Zacharias, in his broadcast,
reminded the Japanese war leaders
that under the terms of the Atlantic
Charter, the signatories are pledged
not to seek territorial aggrandize-
ment, to permit peoples to select
their own form of government, to
sponsor no territorial changes unless
approved by the affected peoples,
to guarantee freedom from fear
freedom of religion, freedom of the
seas and to work for abandonment
of the use of force by nations.
He told the enemy there are still
some influential people" in this
country who would not like to see
the destruction of Japan"
But our patience, too. has its
limits, and it is rapidly running
out" he said. = Your opportunity
to think over these facts is rapidly
passing. AS soon as our redeploy-
ment is completed, this opportunity
will be lost to Japan-and, as you
know, it will be lost forever. The
war will then be decided by our
superior armS-in Japan"
The Owl broadcast was given in
creased Importance in the light of
conversations known to be going
en- in Potsdam concerning the fate
of the japanese. Reports were cir
culating here last night, the Asso-
ciated Press said, that a statement
clarifying Allied policy toward the
Japs would be issued within the
next few days by President Tru-
man and Mr.. Churchill and possibly
Generalissimo Stain.
Whether such statement would
modify or define the unconditional
surrender policy of the United
States and Britain remained a mat
ter for speculation.
The Army and Navy Journal, un-
official service publication, reported
yesterday that the President had
taken with him a set of surrender
terms favored by the War, Navy and
State Departments. These terms,
the Journal said, called for total
surrender of the japanese fleet and
air forces as well as other disarma-
nent, loss of all territory outside
the home islands, destruction OF
Japans war industries, control of
her economy by the United States
and surrender of designated war
criminals.
The Associated Press also reported
an informed source as authority
See SURRENDER, Page A-40