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Conference Proves
Big Nations Can
Compromise
SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 —
(IP)—Fresh signs that the big pow
ers can compromise, even sharp
differences, in the interest of
peaceful cooperation has sent the
United Nations in the conference
into the home stretch with bright
ened hopes for the future of the
world.
There remains the problem of
winning small nation acceptance
of the veto voting formula by
which the Big Five retain control
of the proposed eleven nations se
curity council. Its machinery is
designed to keep peace.
This is before the conference
committee, which is scheduled to
meet at four p.m. PWT, today, in
which Foreign Minister Evatt of
Ausralia is leading the fight for
restricting he veto so that while
each' of the big powers has agreed
on the use of force, peaceful mea
sures to settle disputes could be
taken, even over some big power
objections.
Russia France, Britain, United
States and China having agreed to
discussion of disputes, couldn't be
blocked by the veto vote stand
solidly against Evatt and those
who share his views.
Senator Conally, leading the big
power side in the committee de
bate is aided by C. K. Webster,
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Suzuki To
Rule Japan
By Decree
Undated — <ff) — The lower
chamber of the Jap Diet passed
an amended wartime emergency
bill, the Tokyo radio broadcast,
giving Suzuki’s government vir
tual authority to rule Japan by
decree.
The broadcast, recorded by FCC
said the House approved the mea
sure after a six hour delay caused
when members of the House com
mittee took exception to certain re
marks made by the Premier. Ra
dio Tokyo'said it believed the
House of Peers will pass the bill
in its revised form.
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talna Mltchel Field. N. Y., youngsters with a model of a B-24 Liberator.
Allies Secure
Good Beachhead
On Labaun
MANILA, June 11—</P) —Ele
ments of the Ninth Australian Di
vision landed simultaneouly on
the islands of Brooketon and
Maura in Brunei bay on the west
ern coast of Borneo, eight hun
dred miles north of Singapore and
six hundred miles east of Indo
china, General MacArthur an
nounced.
Naval air bombardment levelled
the enemy’s beach defenses and
the assault troope swept ashore
with only scattered opposition.
A CBS broadcast from Manila
said Gen. MacArthur participated
in the Borneo operations. Corre
spondent John Adams reported
%
the general visited the Laban
beachhead' a few hours after
Allied troops landed and later
he witnessed a brief frontline
skirmish of warships of the
United States fleet and the Royal
Australian Navy with bombers
and fighters of the Royal Austra
lians and the United States Thir
teenth Airforces in supporting op
eration.’ •
CANADA HOLDS
GENERAL
ELECTION
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OTTAWA, Canada, June 11—
</P)—Canada voted on a new par
liament, the first victorious Al
lied nations to hold a general elec
tion since the end of the war In
Europe.
MacKenzie King and his Liberal
party, who has been in power
since 1935, and most of the years
since 1921, in a three-way fight
appeared to be threatened most by
the reorganized Tory party, its
name changed from Conservative
to Progressive Conservative and
led by John Bracken, former
Farmer Unviersity professor and
Premier of Manitoba for twenty
years.
The third major contestant. So
cialist Coopreative Common*
wealth Federation, led by English
born former teacher Holdwell.
Preelection guesses regarding
The relative strengths of the Con
servatives and the CCF shifted
after Monday’s Ontario provincial
election in which the Socialists
were decisively beaten by the
Tories.
Allied Bombers
Plaster Borneo
Defenses
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By FRED HAMPBON
MANILA, June 11—OF)—Allied
bothbers and light naval units are
plastering Japanese defenses on
oil rich Bomo. Japanese say Al
lied units are storming the stra
tegic island of Labau for the sec
ond day since Tokyo declared that
! Allied troops had landed on La
baun, commanding the mouth of
Brunei bay.
General MacArthur’s communi
que made no mentibn of ground
action. He announced that heavy
and medium fighter bombers had
dumped two hundred thirteen
tons of bombs on supply and de
fense areas around Brunei bay,
where the Japanese fleet in south
ern waters use dot refuel.
Heavy bombers swept far to the
southward, destroying three coast
al freighters and bombing ship
yards near Bandjermasin. Light
naval units swept Borneo’s north
east coast, shelling Japanese shore
positions and sinking three sailing
vessels off Sandakan, capital of
British Borneo.
Gen. Stilwell Says
No Chance Of
Japs Cracking
OKINAWA, June 11—(/Pi—Gen.
Stilwell, making frontline inspec
tion of the stubborn. Okinawa bat
tle, declared the war with Japan
could easily last at least two years
longer. “It is quite possible we
will have to fight in Manchuria,”
he said.
Even after the Jap home islands
are conquered “personally I be
lieve it will require ground action
in addition to anything done by
bombings,” said the commanding
general of the army ground forces,
in disagreeing with the belief he
said, that was held by many
Americans that bombing alone
could defeat Japan.
Stating he saw no reason to ex
pect the Japs to break, Stilwell
remarked, “I cannot see how when
they are so tenacious individually
we can expect their mass morale
to crack.”
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Russia And
Allies Desire
Lasting Peace
FRANKFURT ON. MAIN, June
11——Soviet Russia and its al
lies are united in the desire for a
lasting firmly-baaed peace that
will afford for common man and
all nations “the opportunities we
fought to preserve for them,” Gen.
Eisenhower asserted before high
ranking leaders of Britain, Rus
sia and United States.
Both General Eisenhower and
Mongtomery received from Mar
shal Zhukov the jewelled Order of
Victory. It is the first time that
Russia’s highest award has been
presented to any but Russians.
General Eisenhower is the eighth
person to receive it, and General
Montgomery the ninth.