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...SCAP headquarters, in Tokyo's Dai Ichi Building, is policed by members of General Matthew Bunker Ridgway's Honor Guard-strapping six-footers, starched and polished, who stand their appointed watches day & night at the entrance and in the gleaming marble corridors. In the dead of night last week, Honor Guard Corporal Linwood C. Smith, a Purple Heart veteran of nine months in Korea, took a ten-minute break, wandered into Ridgway's outer office. There he saw a box of Whitman's Sampler chocolates. Knowingly and willfully, Corporal Smith did then & there remove...
...present and for the foreseeable future, Japan is solidly encamped with the free world. But she is going to stay in camp on her own terms. Unfortunately stubborn SCAP brass give little if any indication that they appreciate the difference between an army of occupation and a security force in a sovereign nation. The occupiers' unwillingness to give up the privileges-the luxury houses, the cheap and plentiful servants, the free schools-they have enjoyed for six years is understandable enough; the men who have run the most benevolent occupation in history have little to apologize for. But they...
...that sell luxury goods, tax free, to foreigners only. In Tokyo alone there are more than 40 beer halls, off limits to Japanese, where Japanese-made beer sells for a little under 20? a bottle; the same beer, with tax, can cost the Japanese 90? or more a bottle. SCAP has started removing some of these irritations, but meanwhile it is adding others. During the past few months, the U.S. Army has replaced its inconspicuous jeeps with a fleet of 800 sleek, wide-bodied, olive-drab sedans, which use up more parking space in Tokyo's already jampacked streets...
...secret that SCAP's proposals for carrying out the terms of the security pact amount to little less than straightforward continuation of many aspects of the occupation. Ridgway's advisers would like to keep the Dai Ichi Building (No. 1 symbol of the occupation), the Imperial Hotel, the Ernie Pyle Theater and a host of lesser buildings and facilities in the Tokyo area. Even more important, particularly in the Orient where the word itself is anathema, the Army wants complete extraterritoriality for its military and civilian personnel. The prospect of such privileges led one member of the Japanese...
...banned all exports to Red China. Japanese exports are screened by SCAP to bar all but strictly civilian items. Britain claims she has never shipped munitions; but it was only two weeks ago that she got around to clamping a complete embargo on rubber shipments from Malaya and Hong Kong. A burgeoning West German trade with Red China, mostly via third countries, is now being curtailed by allied officials...