THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941.
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Inter-Allied Conference
Atlantic Charter
Endorses
TASK OF REBUILDING EUROPE
RA.F. AWARDS
FLYING OFFICERS WHO DIRECT BRITAIN'S AIR OPERATIONS IN THE, MIDDLE EAST THE WESTERN DE- SERT. MEDITERRANEAN-AND IRAQ ARE INCLUDED IN A LIST OF RA.F. AWARDS ISSU- ED YESTERDAY
The list is made up of 112 and two N.C.O.'s in the Women's Auxillary, Air Force. "Acting A Marshal Roy Max-
THE INTER-ALLIED CONFERENCE IN LONnames and includes three officers DON YESTERDAY UNANIMOUSLY AFFIRMED AS THE COMMON AIM THAT SUPPLIES OF FOOD". AND MATERIALS BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE POST-WAR NEEDS OF COUNTRIES LIBER- ATED FROM NAZI OPPRESSION.
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Drummond Deputy Air well Oncer Commander - In" Chiof Middle East Headquarters, and Air Vice-Marshal John Henry d'Albiac, Air Officer Command-
of the Order of the Bath, Reuter.
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Sir Dadiba Merwanjee Dalal, former High Commissioner for in India in London, left estate England valued at £5,000, says Reuter from London,
M. Paul Spaak, Belgian Premier, afterwards pro-ing in Iraq, Become Commpanions posed the following resolution: "The Governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the U.S.S.R. and Yugoslavia, and the representatives of General de Gaulle, Leader of the Free French, hav- ing taken note of the declaration recently drawn up by the President of the U.S.A. and the Prime Minis- tér, Mr. Churchill, on behalf of His Majesty's Gov- ernment in the United Kingdom, now make known their adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the declaration and their intention to cooperate to the best of their ability in giving effect to them."
Mr. Eden explained that the giving all possible assistance preamble to the resolution made Soviet Russia.
no mention of His Majesty's Gov- ernment, or the Governments of Canada, Australia and South Africa, because these Governments are already associated with declaration.
the
Mr. Eden said the resolution ex- pressed the general als for which they were fighting.
It was his conviction that ap. proval by the Allied Council of
the declaration would greatly to Its influence and would encourage the Allied forces now gathered together to defeat Germany.
The Eight Points ́ ́
Point Four
to
On behalf of Greece, M. Tsou- deros approved the resolution.
M. Bech, for Luxembourg, said his Government gave adherence to the Roosevelt-Churchill declara- tion.
"To-day the whole world knows the great English-speaking De destruction of the Nazi tyranny." brolight renewed encouragement
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FADDEN GOVT. SURVIVES
BY ONE VOTE
The motion of cen; sure moved by Mr. Curtin, the Labour leader, _ against the Australian *Govern ment in Parliament yesterday, was defeat ed by 32 votes to 31.
Mr. Curtin alleged the use of Govern- ment funds amounting over £3,000 for bribing Union offici- als.-Reuter.
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ORGANISING
POOL OF
FOR THE PEACE
SUPPLIES
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THAT IT WAS THE DUTY of all free countries to organise in good time an initial pool of resources for use in the transition from wor to peace, was stressed by Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, at yesterday after noon's resumption of the Allied Conference M. van Kleffens, Netherlands at St. James Palace. Foreign Minister, said that the words "with due respect for their
in existing obligations"
Point
The declaration, he said, had
to resistance by the oppressed peoples.
Mr. Eden proposed a resolution dealing M. Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak Four of the
Atlantic Charter with practical steps which must be taken in Foreign Minister, accepting the re-(dealing with equal access to trade solution on behalf of his country; and materials) appeared to be in order to provide for the supply of necessities obligations should to occupied countries as soon as the German not be perpetuated if they would aggressors have been removed.
Existing
sald Free Czechoslovaks who had the nature of a reservation. escaped Hitler and were enjoying| the hospitality of Britain were stirred by the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting.
seriously impair or diminish the effect of the rule.
Protection Snowball'
It was in order to organise this The Eight Points were equally
action that the British Govern- Important in their symbolis as in
rent had invited the Allied Gov- their political and economic significance. They were the cor-
At the end of the last war the ernments and authorities to meet rect" `process' 'for ́ ́ achieving ́al
same principle found solemn ex-in London now. better world for our children pression in almost identical terms,
Preliminary work had already after the final victory.
he said, and they all knew what became of it when the snowball been done by a Ministerial Com-
mittee on export surpluses. ANY HOPE OF AGREEMENT of protection was set rolling un- WITH NAZI GERMANY AND it became so large that it was Another committee of officials VULGARISING, GOOSE-STEP-a serious obstacle in the path of PING“ PRUSSIANISM WAS A International trade. FUTILE DREAM:
The Netherlands Government Only after the destruction of expressed the earnest hope to this could we establish a peace see trade barriers removed and that all men in all lands would live discriminatory treatment,
in in- out their lives in freedom from ternational commerce abolished. fear and want.
A serious common effort would be made to that end for the ulti- mate benefit" of all;^^-
Germany Disarmed......
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under Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. the Government's Chief Economic Adviser,, had already begun enquire into European needs,
Estimates of Needs
preparation memoranda,
to
THEIR KNAVISH TRICKS
Since the days of the last war, when embryo pilots were warned. toBeware of the Hunt in thes Sun the German pilots have had a reputation for trickiness. Some of the dodges they employ ore fair enough; some » definitely-
of the "below the belt. variety,
In this respect the Nazi fliers are neither better nor worse than their compatriots in the bther German forces. From Afth-col- umnists to sailors flying false col-
ours from parachute troops in the uniforms of their enemy to "tourists" and trojan-horse troops playing bands, the Germans dear- ly love a trick or a disguise. It should have been a German who first said "All's fair in.
War"
One of the tricks which, the Luftwaffe has tried to pull over the RAF is to fly patrols of | fighters...at, sea level, cunningly camouflaged to blend, with the seas The idea is to get/boneath British aircraft unobserved, and pull up into an attack from be-, flow. Another trick is for a bomb- er to drop coloured fläres when attacked. Sometimes the "Hun is signalling to his escort fighters for help, but it may simply be a ruse to "give pause" to the at- tacker..
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Nazi crews sometimes bale out when shot down, and dive theic to¬ apparently empty machine wards the sea. But one; member bas stayed behind for a while in
order to fire a Parthian shot ut witness the end of his victime, An stala gun on a bomber an unusual position on an otherwise familiar aircraft. A fighter pilot approaching a known blind spot concerting burst of gunfire
the British, pilot approaching to
other trick is occasionally to in-
may perhaps be met with a, dis-
The Italians are not above copy→ ing the trickiness of their Axis. friends. One dodge · is for
the
ground defences to lie completely doggo" under a British pilot's come down low to take a closer ook at the target. This is the
air attack, in the hope that he will
signal for heavy, and, co-ordinat ed A.A. fire, including short range pom-pom guns.
BRITAIN BANS SUPPLIES TO SWITZERLAND
BRITAIN HAS WITHDRAWN the facilities for the passage of blockaded industrial materials to Switzerland as a consequence of the latter's com- mercial agreement with Germany.
Bureau Proposed
least
The Netherlands Government had taken measures to build up a store for their own country and their economies to working order M... van Kleffens said that. on the Polish and Belgian Govern Even when the total disai ma- behalf of the Netherlands Gov-ments had prepared preliminary after a period of reorganisation ment of nations who periodically ernment he was happy to express memoranda on their countries which is likely to lust at resorted to aggression to attain adhesion to the principles of the estimated requirements.
two years after the war, political aggrandisement was ac- | Atlantic Charter because it was The Norwegian and Czech Gov-l complished, the defensive position their conviction that these prin- erniments were putting in hand of nations who, like the Czecho- ciples, properly applied, would
of corresponding. slovaks, had for long been vic-
go far to advance a better inter- tims of aggression, would have to national order which would bring be considered.
to all countries international and Mr. Eden said that the fram. pational security and prosperity. Ing and, co-ordination of osti. Anglo-U.S. Cooperation We thank the President of the mates must take account of the United States and the Primeurient needs in the first, weak M. Masaryk continued: Within Minister of His Britannic Majes after the Nazi yoke was lifted. the future economic structure of tyle government In the United Such estimates must further take the world, as outlined by the Kingdom for having taken this of European countries for supplies into account the probable demands Roosevelt-Churchill declaration,
auspicious initiative," he said. from overseas in order to restore small nations like Czechoslovakia
Polish-Endorsement
Mr. Eden said that the resolu
for the establishment of a bureau tion he would propose provided which would report to an Inter- the Allied Committee under Chairmanship of Sir Frederick
Leith Ross
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The official announcement in London yesterday stated: “In View of the commercial agree- ment recently signed between Switzerland, and Germany, the British Government is no longer able to continue, the limited faci- lities hitherto accorded for the, passage through, the blockade, and, across enemy territory of mate- rials for Swiss Industry.
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NDON DECLA MOVE WAS RETALIATION BUT SUI RECOGNITION OF A STATE OF AFFAIRS WHICH-EXISTS, THROUGH NO FAULT OF THE SWISS OR OF BRITAIN.
by access to their fair share of raw materials will be given an opportunity be equals to recon- The Polish Minister, Count population which had been re- struct in cooperation with their Edward Baczynski, said he hoped moved from the western parts of neighbours quickly and perman- the Charter would be fully ap Poland would return to their economic plied and that the activities of homes and the Germans driven, ently their devastated life.
certain nations that had taken away. The Czechoslovak Governý advantage of present circums- The Polish Minister was con- ndent too that Poland would not ment-ls more than ever, con tances would not be forgotten. vinced that the closer coopera. He said Poland, which was the be allowed to emerge from the tion becomes between Britain Arst victim of the German bg war with reduced territory but The statement which they and America the greater will gressor und which had still rewould see that her frontiers as have authorised me to make shows be the future-cafety of these seated German proposals of col-sured an economic development they will not be unwilling at the who to-day have taken up, arms, laboration, would see that none worthy of the numbers of her right time to join in framing plans against the common Tos.
of the illegal acts perpetrated by population. Ho endorsed very for the supply of Europe's needs
ter: * M. Masaryle hoped cooperation the ruthless aggressor would be strongly the principles, of the on the basis of cooperation,, said understand the position.
Mr. Eden-Reuter. would be particularly quick in recognised, and that the Polish Atlantic Charter Router.
It is believed that the Swi
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