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Between such outbreaks, French colonials raged that the British had botched the job. The Japanese, said Colonel H. J. Cedille, had armed the natives, incited them to riot and in some cases had joined them, posing as Annamites. General Gracey, dismayed by the whole business, talked tough to the Jap commander, Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, then flew down to Singapore with Colonel Cedille, senior French officer at Saigon, for a worried conference with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. But not until strong French forces arrived (under General Jacques Leclerc and Admiral Georges Thierry d'Ar-genlieu) would Terauchi...
...Allied Commander, all food and other supplies to civilian authorities (unwanted arms would be broken up for scrap). He permitted the manufacture of trucks but not of passenger cars. He ordered the criminals responsible for the infamous "Death March" on Bataan rounded up. Finally, he seized 21 Jap banks (but assured ordinary depositors that they would get their money...
Economics & Rice. This peninsula's capital plant has been worn out by Jap exploitation and the drain of war. Machinery is falling apart, roads are knocked to rubble. Industry is at a standstill -laborers won't work for the former owners, and wage ceilings...
...parties are for independence, nationalism, turning the Jap rascals out. Where they differ is on methodology, nationalizing industry, and on local issues. After years of political frustration there are few strong personalities. One is plump, man-of -good-will Woon Heung Lyuh (pronounced Yuh), 60, head of the provisional commission for rebuilding Korea, nucleus of party No. 3. He is out of circulation at the moment (it appears there were a couple of fist fights). Lyuh told me he wants to set all good Koreans - Communists included - help the reconstruction...
...propagandist, agitator and organizer." It still is, although Pravda has long since changed from agitating agin the Government to agitating for, Another Pravda founder, Joseph Stalin, sees to that. It is also intensely nationalist, devotes scant space to news from outside Russia. (It was a day late reporting the Jap surrender...