THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 23, 1940
LITVINOFF . . . .
1lquidated?
MAXIM LITVINOFF PURGED?
COPENHAGEN, TO-DAY. ACCORDING TO A RELIABLE REPORT FROM OSLO, M. MAXIM LITVINOFF, FORMER SOVIET FOR. EIGN COMMISBAR, HAS BEEN "LIQUIDATED" BY THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT,
The Moscow authorities, says the report, considered that he was friend- ly to the Western Powers and, there fore, was dangerous to Soviet Russia. --Reuter.
MAN OF THE LIMELIGHT
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bring new blood into the Army's ad- ministration, who will defy red tape, encourage youth, and shatter the paralysis of seniority in control.
He justified the belief. Whatever the differences he may now have en- countered with his colleagues,
he stands on
а
man
who
record as made Lord
Gort the Commander-in-Chief, who was in favour of young men of young ideas, who sent the Expeditionary Force of this war to France in full strength, and who has been selected Mr. Winston by the Nazis, next to Churchill, as the most hated of all British Ministers.
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Leslie Hore-Belisha is too wise man not to know that his present fortune is the fate of all statesmen. Eclipse? I have said that he shares a similarity with Disraeli.
THE NEW MAN
Here is quite a different type of politician. Service to the State is traditional in the Stanleys.
Mr. Oliver Stanley follows his father, the Earl of Derby, in going to the War Office. Lord Derby was Was Minister in 1918 and introduced the famous "Derby Scheme" of recruitment. Mr. Stanley's assumption of that office makes the family motto, "Sans Chan- ger" (without changing), particularly appropriate.
*** While Litvinoff was Foreign Commissar, the foreign policy of Mr. Stanley, at 43, has been Presi- Russia seemed to be towards peace | dent of the Board of Trade since 1937, and the upholding of the Covenants but although he did not attain his the of the League of Nations. Shortly first Ministerial post until 1933 after Molotov took over the post, a War Ministry will be his fifth Govern- nationalistic, aggressive policy came ment post. into being, and those "eternal enemies" -Nazi-ism and Bolshevism-became allies.
NAZI ORAZIO CALUMNIES
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Paris, To-day. Very strong indignation has been provoked here by calumnies against the French Navy made by the Nazi D.N.B. news agency in con- nection with the Orazio dis- aster.
D.N.B. declared it was to be stress- ed that fire broke out on the Italian liner immediately after the visit to the ship by the French contraband con- trol, thus trying to insinuate that the liner was sabotaged by the French.-
The accusation is not worth answer- ing but it may be stressed that the contraband control visited the Orazio a full 24 hours before the disaster.
The French warship which stopped the Drazlo took off nine Germans, and It is pointed out here that Fronoh na- val and merchant ships were first on the scane and carried out rescue work.
Meanwhile the owners of the Italian liner announce that all the passengers are safe-Havas.
ONLY 10 DEAD
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Marseilles, Tó-day. All the missing lifeboats contain ing passengers from the Italian liner Orazio have been picked up, and the only casualties were among the crew. - Several mechanics perished when they were trapped in the engine.... room.
It is believed the disaster claimed, no more than 10 deaths. Havas.
He was Minister of Transport from 1933-34 (and in this post he was suc- ceeded by Mr. Hore-Belisha); Minister of Labour, 1934-35; President of the Board of Education, 1935-37. Within ten years of leaving Eton, he had been on Oxford graduate, an artillery major, a barrister, a stockbroker, and M.P. for Westmorland (which he has re- presented since 1924.)
In politics his reputation has in- creased steadily since he became Pre- sident of the Board of Trade. Al- though looking very different from his Eurly father," the new-War-Minister is now credited with having the true
"Stanley touch" in his speeches:
The
names
The general public may not find the name of Oliver Stanley very familiar.
conjunction of the two "Oliver" and "Stanley" has a too curiously familiar sound.
Oliver Stanley was a fine soldier in the last war; and so, too, was Mr. Hore-Belisha.
MALAYA AN ARSENAL
Singapore, To-day.
Malaya was described in a broad- cast as an arsenal manufacturing one of the most powerful of weapons foreign exchange.
This description was applied by a Professor of Raffles College, Singa- pore, who pointed out that the United States buys tin and rubber from Ma- laya but that Malaya's purchases in the United States are small,
Malaya's credit in the United States is about $6,000,000 a month, making it the most important source of Ameri- can dollars in the Empire.-Reuter.
VAN ZEELAND SAFE
London, To-day.
It is now learned that,, contrary to revious reports, M. Paul van Zeeland,
on
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