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Mr. Tolson. Mr. E. A. Tar Mr. Clegg. Mr. Glavin State Dept. Disavows... Mr. Nichols_ Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy. Attack on MacArthur Mr. Carson Mr. Egan By CHESLY MANLY Mr. Gurnea Published attadks on Gen. MacArthur for issuing a Mr. Harbo statement Sundaf. warning against the Communist peril Mr. Hendon 'in Japan were-reyudiated by thg State Department yester. terday.. ... :.. Mr. . Jones. Ho-British Paper : + Lilncoln. white,?' State. Depart. The' Internationalist Her'ald Mr. Penningto ers an official statement strongly Tribune is the`leading pro-British Mr. Quinn Tar speak on any phose of American Mr. frequently ad vo c a te d appease- |policy and asserting that nothing ment of Russia since the war. Mi contained in his : VJ-Day anniver- sary statement was contrary to Eugene Meyer's internationalist that policy. American policy, white said, is even more .difficulty than the sctforthin the.Potsdam agree- Herald-Tribune deciding whether ment, in the Japanese surrender to be pro-British or pro-Russian. terms, in a white. House state- It not only.carried the anti-Mac- ment of September.6, 1945, and in Arthur, pro-Communist story. on its the decisions of the Far Eastern front page but published an edi- commission. He added that Mac- torial berating MacArthur for is- Arthur. is thoroughly acquainted suing his statement and for talk-. with the basic policy directives and Ing. "confidentially" to members 'Is. not required to clear any state the House Military. Affairs ment hewishes to make with the Committee, who later warned ofa State Deparmtent. possible surprise attack by .the . MacArthur's statement said the Fussians in Korea or elsewhere. "dread uncertainty" of ideological The Post editorial even de- nouncedpublicationof an of- conflict between democracy and ficial document predicting that communism hangs over Japan and a people "long regimented under Russia's fighting-age manpower a philosophy of the extreme con- will reach 32 million by 1970. The legislative reference service of the servative right, might prove easy Library of Congress published the prey to those seeking to impose a booklet in response to.a House doctrine leading again to regimen- tation under the philosophy of,the resolution. extreme radical ieft." "It is hard to see how this sort of talk can inspire confidence in A copyrighted Washington dis- theUnited States abroad or how patch to the New York Herald it can contribute to our diplomatic Tribune, which was also published etfortstoward working out on the first page of the Washing- Fational solutions of differences Department sources" charged the Post. The State Department's strong on his own judgment anlanti. defense of MacArthur contrasted communist campaign in violation with its attitude,of a year ago, oI his American policy directives yhen Dean Acheson, as acting Sec- fron. President Truman." The fetary. publicly.rebuked the stoty quoted these anonymous /supreme" allied commander for sources as saying American policy. stating that his occupation force friendship to Soviet Russia. months. Acheson remarked that Mac. INDEXED ment" and not as a maker of LON policy. The reaction to his blast 87 SEP did hot enhance the State Depart. IX-y 1946 mert's popularity. The occupation HLLAED forge was reduced below 200,000 n DAILANT7 sixmonths and is now down to about 135,000. 35 WASHINGTON TIMES HERALD DATE