The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-02-11


audience of approximately 10C
people. His subject for the eve
ming covered Japan, China, Ko-
rca, Guam and the Philippines
Mr.. Young has been on tour for
the past five years, making over
300 lecture appearances. He urg'
ed Sunday night that the people
Of Key West see the advantages
of a Town Hall Series. The fact
that many well-known lecturers
are scheduled for South Florida
would bring talent into Key West
az very nominal cost. Nearly
1875 Town Hall groups have de-
veloped in the last three years IN
various parts of the United States.
MIR. Young made his first trip
round the world in 1925 as sec
rotary to the late f. w. Scripps,
Of Scripps- Howard newspapers,
who was his uncle.
Mr.. Young lived in Japan for
~ years before the war and pub
lshcd newspaper there. He was
taken prisoner of the JapS for
libel" against the Army of the
Rising Sun. He was also the In
tUrnational News Service CORE
spOndent in Tokyo at the time he
was imprisoned, After being in
solitary confinement for two
months he was given a trial, in a
japanese Court. The first prose-
cutting attorney was discharged
because he took copies of the
charges that were against Young
and passed them around to his
friends. The charges were true
statements of conditions but
should not have been written, ac-
cOrding to the Japanese, The sec
Ond prosecuting attorney didn't
last long as he hesitated to take
any stand. The third prosecuting
attorney managed to get Young
sax months in prison and three
years on probation.
In Japan" MIR. Young said,
Irrespective of the truth of your
writings or statements, anything
that was not in agreement with
the government made you auto
matically guilty of libel.
You can not now know the
true story of all of the occupied
areas, because it is impossible tC
get an accurate report"
The speaker said that CORE
spondents could not enter Man.
Churia OF Northern Korea. In ra.
do IN China, if one does no
broadcast what the authorize:
want. that person is cut off the
air. There is no freedom o
speech. no freedom of air, no free
dom of thought--in fact, no free
dom az all in China.
Mr. Young stated that the Phil
ippine republic was in a state o
armed rebellion Manuel Roxa
a. Selfish-political opportunist
He will not allow congreSsmel
who are elected by the peasant
90 take their place in the govern
mcnt. unless they are approved
hy him. AT the present time tn,
representative are waiting t
take over their duties but are no
allowed 10 do so by RoXaS. Unit
those representatives are admit
Ted. the Philippines can not &C
cppt the $500, 900, 100000 allocatet
to them for war damage claims
undcr the Bell Act. Manila i
the second worst bombed city il
the world
Hiroshima was the largest EN-
harkation point IN the world" MI
Young said. and had a large con
Drnlration of Japanese military
% had the largest warehouse an
depot Tor chemical warfare fo
tbv japanese. There were tw
thrmicsl war plants IN the Hire
shima area, one a French plar
and the other an American-typ
plant with $4,000 tons of mustar
Eus stored on the island. The
identical plants had been activ
sinDe 1882
Ml Young stated that ther
Was enough gas stored on the is
land that q a plane had crashe
un the island, and the gas eXploc
ED, q would have brought deaf
Co 20oo 1000 japanese people.
III Young was at Bikini fc
buth IT the atomic bomb tests an
save some very interesting re
views of events. He was also ;
Guam pa typhoon which move
90 l2b knots an hour and deva.
tatCd the island He feels tn;
Guam ls center of a new colon
al empire OF 100 islands from Ok
naWa Ca Bikini There are 45O
600 people on Okinawa. 22,0(
Hu Guam and there is no me
.hlndllng at all there. NJ
Young stated that Tinian coul
0e thc richest island in the P;
giitr t it were developed but
ihc present time there are only
u 40 Americans and so native
living there
When asked in the question p,
0.od how the Japanese people fe
about the war. he said that Il