Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1942 — Page 19

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U.S. DIPLOMATS

* Ambassador Grew Made Many Protests, but to No Avail; _ Police Swarm Through Private Aparimetits;

Food Is Not Sufficient.

(The manager: of the former United Press bureau in Tokyo, who

“ arrived home Tuesday aboard the diplomatic exchange ship, Gripsholm, . after a long internment In Japan, discloses in the following dispatch

:* the ‘indignities to which’ American diplomats were subjected by the pr dipings after Pearl Harbor.)

By ROBERT ‘RT BELLAIRE Unitéd Press Staff Correspondent

«NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Japanese treatment of the

American diplomatic mission

to Japan was such that Am-

bassador'\Joseph C. Grew protested scores of times. In one, made Dec. 21, two weeks after Pearl Harbor, he . informed the Japanese through the Swiss legation that the ~ American diplomats were being treated in a manner “un * paralleled in the history of : nations.”

This was in line with the others, one of which said that

- the members of the United

.« States embassy were being

: treated “worse than criminals

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and prisoners of war who at least are given food.” Eugene 1. Dooman, embassy counselor, protested to a Japanese

foreign officé repxesentative Dec. 18 that there was “fothing in the history of international relations

which could even approach this instance of savage treatment of

« public officials.”

Police Make Searches : “The record of behavior of Japa-

: nese policy will remain a blot 'to

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« shame Japan for the next 100 Yer Mr. Dooman said. . During the first months of internment Ambassador Grew protested because uniformed Japanese police swarmed daily through the

: private apartments of the diplo-

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windows of the ambassador’s private quarters and attempting to

: roam the rooms despite the fact

that Mrs. Grew was ill Other indignities he protested

. Included:

1. Failure of the Japanese to

: provide any food whatsoever despite * promises and the embassy’s acute ¢ need for outside supplies.

2. Receipt by the ambassy of only one-third of the fuel needed to

: heat its buildings during the se- . verest part of the winter.

3. Japanese refusal to permit anything or anyone to enter or leave the embassy between Dec. 14 and 18, at a time when the Tokyo press was claiming that American

: diplomats had expressed “gratitude : for the kind treatment being re-

ceived.” Fail to Provide Escorts

4. Police refusal to furnish escorts, upon which they insisted, for embassy cars seeking to obtain adequate supplies of fresh’ food and other necessities at embassy

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intercourse between civilized

couldn’t go out. 5. Some members of the embassy were forced to go for months without a change of clothes because the police refused to let them get pos-

the embassy compound. 6. Police insistence that everyone remain within the embassy at all times, despite the inadequate accommodations. Two staff members, therefore, even slept on cots in Mr. Grew’s office. 7. Occupation by the police of the home of Smith Hutton, naval attache. 8. Refusal to remove embassy garbage, thus endangering the health of those interned. 9. Extreme delay in furnishing medicines. 10. Refusal to provide any facilities for exercise. 11. Refusal to permit an embassy representative to visit staff members in hospitals, where several were seriously ill.

Still Need Food

Japanese foreign office representatives admitted that the embassy was not receiving “reciprocal treatment,” but appeared pleased by their inability to obtain the co-operation of the home office and police in improving conditions. After Swiss diplomats protested fruitlessly for more than a month, police finally relaxed some restrictions and even withdrew uniformed policemen, but never provided any food. After the American air raid on Tokyo April 18, Japanese authorities warned that another one would result in cutting off even of supplies for which the embassy itself had finally arranged. Not until Jan. 18 was the embassy permitted to have movies and engage in outdoor recreation. The internees were required to perform

-|janitor duties in the embassy build

ings and Mr. Grew’s private secretary, Rpbert Feary, former Harvard football player, ran the embassy laundry.

Egg Ration Reduced

Other staff members. operated a communal store where, for example, the egg ration was two per person per week. Under the evacuation agreement the diplomats were not permitted to take their furniture with them. Thus forced to sell, they found that police had permitted only one dealer to enter the assembly. This resulted in a forced liquidation of furniture at one-seventh of prevailing Tokyo prices. The police even blocked the first visit of the Swiss minister to Mr. Grew on Dec. 14. The entire treatment of the Americans demonstrated that the police have almost complete control over ‘other Japanese government departments. Interned Latin American diplomats also protested their treatment.

tries which had merely broken off diplomatic relations, were confined to their embassy or legation compounds during the first months. Representatives of Chile and Argentine which hadn’t broken relations, were subject to almost the same surveillance. The Peruvian minister, Ricardo Rivera-Schrieber, and his wife escaped injury when unidentified

| terrorists fired two shots into their

home one night. On another occasion a small crowd stoned the

Peruvian legation, breaking windows. Alfredo Lertora, Peruvian consul at Yokohama, was confined for six weeks to a small room in the Grand hotel. The windows were closed and the blinds drawn, until he suffered a nervous breakdown. Diplomatic quarters believed Chile soon might break relations with Japan. When we left Japan it was understood Chilean diplomats had not been allowed to receive their pay for two months because the Chilean government had refused Japanese diplomats in that country to draw a million yen monthly. The Japanese were unable to explain the necessity for such a large sum of money and it was believed it was wanted for fifth column activities in South America.

YOUTH SENTENCED IN WRECK ATTEMPT

SULLIVAN, Ind. Aug. 27 (U. P.).

expense in Tokyo. Hence the cars|

Even the representatives of coun-

sessions from their homes outside | SEE_—<G_

first time during a salvage rally

Dr. Mildred McAfee (left) commander of the WAVES, and Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, WAAC director, are pictured together for the

GREW OFFERS

THE EVIDENGE

Former Ambassador to Tokyo Attends Official Din-

ner at White House.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (U. P). —Factual evidence of mistreatment of ‘Americans in Japanese intern ment centers was brought before government officials today in a report presented by Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Tokyo. = Mr. Grew’s report, containing ma-

terial collected during the month's trip of the diplomatic exchange liner Gripsholm from Lourenco Marques, also gave the official account of events in Tokyo which led up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Americans who suffered. mistreatment and indignities at the hands of Japanese provided their case records during the trip home.

Visits Secretary Hull

Mr. Grew spent 90 :mminutes: yesterday with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. He brought a large sheaf of documents to the department and after his talk with Mr, Hull conferred with other officials. ; Mr. Grew was present. last night at a “business meeting” dinner at the White House in honor of Prime Minister Peter Fraser of New Zealand. The guest list looked like an allied council of war and it was understood that it had many of the aspects of such a gathering. In addition to high ranking officials of the American army, navy and marine corps, cabinet members and heads of war agencies, there were Foreign Minister T. V. Soong of China; the British ambassador, Lord Halifax; President Manuel Quezon ‘of the Philippines; the chairmen of the senate and house foreign affairs committees, and the ministers from New Zealand and South Africa.

ACTION DUE TODAY ON SOLDIER VOTING

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (U. P.). —House action is expected today on a senate amendment to the servicemen’s absentee voting bill which exempts members of the armed forces from paying poll taxes. Rep. Stephen M. Young (D. O.) is returning from his heme in Cleveland to take charge of the bill for the elections committee and to recommend a course for the house to follow. * He may ask the house either to disagree to the senate amendments and request the appointment of a conference committee, or to concur in the senate amendments. He probably will choose the first alternative, since to force the LSsue on the second would result in a quorum call! Members from the eight poll tax states—Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia—would . never agree to the senate’s poll tax amendment without a record vote. Not more than 35 or 40 members of the house are in the city, and if a quorum call is demanded the informal recess which the house

'|had planned to continue until mid-

September may be ended. 5

—Judge Martin L. Pigg of the Sulli-|

{van circuit court yesterday sentenced Jack Meeks, 18, of near Carlisle, ‘| to two to 14 years in the state re- | formatory after Meeks pleaded guil{ty to charges of*obstructing a rail-

‘Meeks and two other. youths were

arrested in connection with at-}-tempts to wreck C. & E. I. trains ‘|south of Sullivan. Meeks told aus

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the "vessel was carrying were

in Griffith stadium, Washington.

Survivors Escape

Own Land Mines

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27 (U. P.).—Survivors of an American merchant ship torpedoed off Australia told today how land mines

hurled through the air and landed in lifeboats but, by lucky chance, did not explode. Tne survivors, members of the navy’s armed guard service, included seamen second class Har-

old Meredith, 21, Flagstaff, Ariz.; George Avant, 21, Ft. Worth, Tex., and John Montrone, 20, Salt Lake City. Harmon, who was on the bridge, said the first torpedo struck only a second after the lookout sighted the submarine in the semi-dark-ness. “It shook us up,” he said, “and tore the straps of the telephone from my head. The whole fantail of the ship was blown off. Four of the armed guard were trapped in quarters. The stern was hanging by a deckpiate. The lookout

killed.” -

The survivors were picked up 10 hours later by a fishing trawler.

KOKOMO FIRM GETS ‘M' FLAG

Maritime Commission Honors Stove Plant That Turned Into War Factory.

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