THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1941.
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BRITAIN BILL
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PROGRESS
AN ATTEMPT to check the aid to Britain plan was frustrated yesterday when the Sen- ate Foreign Relations Committee rejected by thirteen votes to ten an amendment to the Lease and Lend Bill requiring President Roose- velt to obtain certification of Army and Navy chiefs before he could, turn over existing equipment to any other country.
The House of Representatives had pre- viously written a provision into the Bill requir- ing "consultation" with Army and Navy chiefs before the President took action.
The Committee is later report- ing that nothing in the Act could ed to have approved in principle be construed to authorise naval four amendments made to the Bill
escort for convoys, while the last by the House of Representatives requires "consultation" between one of which limits the period of the President and Army and Navy the Bill to June, 1943, the second chiefs before the transfer of ex- empowering Congress to suspend isting military equipment could it before then by the passage of be ordered by the President current resolution requiring mere- the United States.-Reutor. ly a vote in the House and in the Senate and not subject to Presi- dential veto; and the third provid-
NEW LIFE MOVEMENT ANNIVERSARY
Preparations are being made in Chungking for one week's celebration of the 7th anniversary of the founding of the New Life Movement which falls on February 19.
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Administration leaders in Washington yesterday are report- ed to be renewing efforts in or- der to get quick passage of the Lease and Lend Bill-Interna- tional News Service.
BRITAIN TO GET U.S. PATROL 'PLANES
Ronald Cross, Min- ister of Shipping, dis- closes that Britain will get patrol 'planes from the United Sta- tes for convoying the British merchant fleet.
Addressing the Em- pire Society, Mr. Cross mentioned the "very valuable acquisition" of fifty American destroyers and added "the long-distance air- craft that we are to receive from the Unit- ed States will also play an important part in protecting our ships." -Associated Press.
INFLATION TALK EXAGGERATED, INSISTS SIMON
GOVERNMENT ADHERES to the policy
of avoiding inflation “by every conceivable
All executive members of the means in our power,” said the Lord Chancel- dinner party on the eve of the lor, Lord Simon, in the House of Lords yester-
movement will be entertained at a
anniversary, when Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek, founder of the day.
movement, will broadcast a speech
to the nation.
He suggested that concern on this point
On the morning of the anniver was brought about by exaggerated or ill-
sary, a celebration meeting
be held.
will
founded arguments.
Rising Prices
not
During the celebration, period Lord Balfour of Burleigh, said
Ford Simon, replying for Gov- contests in stenography, account- he was afraid the vicious spiral ing, cooking, sewing, cartoon of inflation was already in opern-ernment, said that the word drawing, sculpture, Arst ald and tion and that the figure of inter-inflation" was used as though it other fields of work will be held, ests in this matter was the gap was associated with the rapidly
between expenditure and re- rising prices, lectures on the New Life Move-
venue which he computed at Prices, he said, may, rise in ment will be given by such pro- about £600,000,000. minent people as Mr. Wu Chil- hui, and Mr. Chang Chi members of the Kuomintang Central Sup- ervisory „Comunittee, and Dr, Paul Yu Pin, Vicar Apostolic for Nan- Oking, and an agricultural show 00000000 will be held-Central News,
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circumstances which do Involve this Inflationary In- fiuence at all.
He strongly supported the Keynes Plan of some kind of deforrad pay, particularly in Referring to the gap between the ones of wage earners who expenditure and revenue, Lord were getting substantially lar-Simon said it was important; to ger earnings than before the remember the overseas aspect in
this matter. Reuter,
war.