JAPAN: The Reluctant Russian

Ever since the Allied Council for Japan was set up at war's end, the Russian members have battled doggedly with U.S. representatives over everything from land reform to schoolbook censorship. But from the start they appeared more or less resigned to U.S. predominance in Japanese affairs, and the council was spared the almost daily Russian flare-ups and walkouts of the now comatose Allied Control Council in Berlin. One day last week the Russian tactics changed: burly Lieut.

General Kuzma N. Derevyanko finally kicked up a typically Russian uproar.

Cause of the incident was a touchy, tragic subject. When Russia concluded her...

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