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NEW ARMS FOR JAPAN'S SOLDIERS U.S. took away their
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By FRED 8PAKK8 .
NKA Staff Correspondent '
WITH JAPANESE DEFENSE
FORCES, Hokkaido (NE) The
dawq. patrol of Soviet MIGs
scream oil a Kurile Island atrip
and clutch the. dirty sky.. From
30,000 feet Pilot Ivanovltch can
see, across a thin sheet of water,
the snow-dusted cliffs of this north
ern Japanese coast. -
If he could land on a hill ter
race he'd note a line Jf Japanese
troopers skiing on white crust.
Pilot Ivanovitch's visit would be
hasty; he'd quickly be dead. 'For
this mountain patrol Is one of the
first -combat ready units of Nlp-pon'sz-prowintt
army; sworn to dis-
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courage uninvited visitors mean
ing Ivanovltch and his Red Chi
nese cousins.
With the . agility of mountain
goats they maneuver among the
hillocks, bouncing mortars off
"enemy" crags. Their assignment
is to know every pathway on Hok
kaido Island.
Hokkaido Island is the first part
of the fatherland assigned to the
new army of Jupan, heir to 5000
years of warrior tradition. As their
numbers soar, American GIs will
withdraw to Pacific bases, a mo
bile supoort for any friends
mugged by Peiping or Moscow,
Here the "enemy" is not as re
mote as It is to doughfeet maneuv-
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NEW FACE OF JAPAN'S ARMY It has built-in Japanese cour
age plus U.S. tools of war, but not old "bamai" recklessness.
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cring in Louisiana swamps. Be
sides jet jockies, nearby island
bases house six Soviet divisions
who might try to wring ,the new
army's neck while still tender.
Any spy watching the platoon
through binoculars would think it
American. From skis to helmets
their wardrobe carbon copies our
infantry, except for the traditional
fondo.ihi, a white Join cloth.
In 1945 this correspondent stood
in a huge Tokyo warehouse .as
stone-faced Japanese soldiers all
insignia torn from their uniforms
surrendered armament to Amer
ican clerks.
U.S. GIs 'wandered around . the
chilly hall inspecting rifles, swords
and machine guns. Each was al
lowed one "portable souvenir of
our victory. '
The other day I saw American
GIs issue latest weapons to the
new army, completing the cycle
from World War II foe to possible
fox-hole buddy in a World War
HI.
In Europe nervous Allies like
France, reheating a souffle of an
cient hatreds, for years blocked
German re-armament. Without a
new Wchrmacht in Eruope and a
Japanese Army in Asia, the NATO
and SEATO shields are paper
hoops.
After the North Korean invasion
General MueArthur, not burdened
with such temperamental friends,
told Nippon it had best defend it
self. We agreed to provide arms
from our vast arsenal.
Sufficient Japanese youth
stormed recruiting stations to
make medical examiners as
choosey as housewives buying
lamb chops.
A U.S. Millitary.Assistance Ad
visory Group with 650 men was
formed. These Americans hike
with Nippon's reborn regiments,
offering lutest Pentagon knowl
edge. -.
Our ideas are gladly accepted
and the Japanese commander of
forces in Hokkaido told me in
grinning understatement: Obvi
ously, we made some mistakes in
the last war and want to know
what . . . For 10 years we have
been a military vacuum while you
Americans have had a chance to
study several small wars."
The bulk of the 170,000 -man
force is infantry, but we're hard
ening cadres of paratroopers, sea
men, tankers and jet pilots in
eluding veterans who visited Pearl
Harbor early on Dec. 7, 1941.
Adding U.S. tools-of-the-war to
built-in . Japanese courage has
mnde each company in speed and
firepower . the equal of any three
Red Chinese outfits that might
care to try.
WitlTa U.S. officer who in 1944
evicted Japanese from a Manila
hotel room with hand grenades I
watched a screaming bayonet
chares. ' Said the officer: "I'd
be willing to go anyplace with
these Joes even Peiping."
At this time they're not contem
plating any foreign travel as the
new force s name indicates: "Self
Defense Agency." The agency
would be called "army" and num
ber 1,000,000 by now but for the
constitution, adopted under U.S.
pressure in the rubble of defeat,
which forbids heavy armament.
There is sentiment against a big
military machine by millions who
recall that pre-war officers weren't
satisfied to run the army; they
ran the whole country like a bar
So far no politician has chanced
a vote on constitutional repeal.
But the new Premier, Ichiro Hato
yama, is plugging to sink the
amendment.
Until the thing is done, good
and legal, the "Self Defense Agen
cy will further . beat the law.
Sensible citizens realize- if the
Commies grab for Japan it won't
help to hit them with a lawyer's
brief.
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NEW FACE also looks like
this in maneuvers a light
many a Pacific veteran will re-'
call.-
Woman for President'
Group Quietly 'Boring from Within'
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By ELIZABETH TOOMEY
United Frees Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK (UP) An organ-
iation .called "Woman For Presi
dent" has been quietly boring from
within for 19 years, unknown to
most men and, for that matter,
to most women.
Its headquarters is here in New
York. Its aim is to put a woman
in the ' White House. Not right
away, but eventually.
"Woman For President" has
been pretty inactive recently but
it never stopped smoulderirg. It
is a serious organization.
Activities declined during World
War II after a brisk pre-war start
and settled into a comfortable rut
of wishful thinking during the post
war era. But a few determined
women saw that the Manhattan
phone book kept a listing of "Wo
man For President And Other
Public Office."
A Madum President?
One wealthy woman almost left
the organization $100,000, but she
died before she could sign the
The organization has been June- The organization plans to hold a
e 6 .. .. .. .., national nominalme convention
Rock, an attorney who found her
self with a cause after she made
a speech to a convention of women
lawyers in Chicago in 1936. She
told them she expected 10 see a
woman president of the United
States in her lifetime. ,
"I was deluged,"- Miss Rock re
calls. Being a woman of action,
who had a forceful personality and
plenty of influential friends, Miss
Rock quickly turned the over
whelming response from women
into an organization with 30 suc
cessful ' women on the board of
directors.
Chairman, Not President
They decided against having a
president. Mis? Rock was named
natonal chairman. They moved in
on both the Republican and Demo
cratic national conventions tnai
year with buttons, banners and
suggestions for women presidents
Alice Roosevelt Longworth for
the Republicans and Ruth Bryan
Rhode for the Democrats.
Now the fire's been rekindled.
here this spring.
The organization has no special ,
woman in mind, though Miss Rock
said it must be a woman .trained
as an executive and a leader,
ideally from business, profession
al or educational fields. - .
That make you breathe easier, -men?
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Budgets Boosted
For U.S. Defense
CHICAGO (UPl Civil de-
fense budgets in '24 of the na
lion's largest cities range from
mure than $3,000,000 in New York
to $16,557 in Dallas, Tex.
The American Municipal Asso
ciation conducted a survey thai
showed civil defense programs in
cities of more than 400,000 popu
lation vary greatly.
It said the variety of interest
intl concern cannot be laid to in
difference to the part of those
cities whose programs are rela
tively small.
Other factors are competition
for limited funds from other mu
nicipal programs, the differences
in public attitude and differing
measures of leadership and sup
port furnished by stute governments.
But In Koneral, defense spend-
ing in l'.I.VI was hiulier than In 1953.
Chicago appropriated more than
$800,000 ill 1!K, compared Willi
$142,000 In MM. Cincinnati appro
printed nearly $2X0.000 last year,
compared with $13,000 the year
before.
Kansas City, Houston. Dallas
and San Antonio appropriated in
l!k4 nhnut double what they raised
in 1953.
School Astride
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KKCHI, Kan. (UP) A new
grade school arising in a suburban
development won't he named, ns
sonic pupils suggested, after Hop.
along Cassidy or Uoy Rogers, but
the name will have a western
.lavor.
It will lie called the Chisholm
Trail School. The building is be
lieved to be squarely on the old
Texas toKansas entile trail. ,
loungsters offered more than
too name suggi'stums.
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