Week of September 1, 1951
Three additional Communist party leaders are arrested By FBI agents, bringing
to 15 the number held in Los Angeles on charges of conspiracy to advocate the
violent overthrow of the government.
Six years to the day after Japan’s surrender, the United States, Australia and
New Zealand sign a broad three-power mutual defense treaty designed to uphold
peace in the Pacific.
Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida of
Japan arrives in San Francisco to
sign the peace treaty. All others have
arrived for the important conference.
Moscow’s press hints that the Soviet
Union will not attempt to hamstring
the San Francisco Japanese peace
conference, but will make every
attempt to get its own views on the
settlement into the record and before
the world.
San Francisco - President Truman gives the opening address in the opening of
the Japan Peace Parley. “I pray that we all shall be united” he told delegates
from 52 nations and a nationwide television and radio audience
Thwarted by an attempt to stall the Japanese peace conference in San
Francisco, Russia’s Andrei Gromyko comes back to the speaker’s stand and
vigorously attacks the treaty American and Britain have invited 50 other nations
to sign. Said Gromyko - “Certain great powers are helping to prepare for a new
war in the Far East” and declared the American-written treaty “Is clearing the
path for Japanese participation in an aggressive military bloc in the Far East.”
Gen. MacArthur blasts the Truman administration
and says there is a “steady drift toward totalitarian
rule” in the U.S. and said this tendency, if continued,
could lead to a dictatorship.”
A small earthquake shakes an era around New York
City. Thousands are frightened by damage is slight.
Hollywood news -
Cornel Wilde
marries actress
Jean Wallace
.
