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...little speech, Correspondent Hugh Hessell Tiltman of the London Daily Herald was brutally frank. "I must sound a warning to you Japanese," he told the Nagoya Chamber of Commerce. "The only yardstick by which you measure world reaction towards yourselves is the extremely friendly attitude of the occupation personnel, but there are other places in the world where people are by no means inclined to forget so soon what has happened. I've just come back from Malaya and I must say it'll be some time before Japanese can safely do business there...
Last week, the Tokyo Headquarters Press Corps was angered and surprised by a new shift in "policy." First sign of a change came when the London Daily Herald's Hugh Hessell Tiltman, who had criticized some Occupation policies, applied for round-trip orders to Malaya and the East Indies. He was told that, if he left the area of the Far East Command, he would lose his credentials and his family its quarters. He left anyway. Hitherto, correspondents had been allowed to leave the theater on reportorial assignments and re-enter without trouble...
...Like Tiltman, William Costello of CBS had sent critical reports on General MacArthur. Costello, who planned a trip to Java, got the same notice as Tiltman. McGraw-Hill's Alpheus Jessup wanted to visit Malaya and Burma. Ex-General Frayne Baker, MacArthur's P.R.O., ruled Jessup would have to take his wife, who is expecting a child in a month, with...
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