THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1945.
MR. CHURCHILL'S ATTACK
Mr. Bevan "Shadowboxing His
Madness Of Demobbing Delay
LONDON, DEC. 7.
CHARGES THAT THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT ARE "IM- RUED WITH THE SPIRIT OF FASCISM AND THE DESIRE TO HUMULATE THEIR DEFEATED OPPON- ENTS" WERE LEVELLED BY MR. WINSTON CHUR CHILL TO-DAY, OPENING THE SECOND AND FINAL DAY OF THE DERATE ON THE OPPOSITION CEN SURE MOTION
AT HOME, DECLARED MR CHERCHILL. THE ATTEMPT TO TURN BRITAIN INTO A SOCIALIST STATE "WILL. AS IT DEVELOPS, PRODUCE WIDESPREAD POLITICAL STRIFE AND MISERY, ABROAD, RELA TIONS WITH AMERICA AND RUSSIA HAD DETIKA ORATED, SUROPE, WAS A NIGHTMARE AND THERE WERE GRAVE DECISIONS TO BE MADE IN INDIA
"I only remain in polities be use I think it is my duty to pre vent the rent position which we won in the war being cast away by folly, and worse that fally, on the marrow of victory
"Let me make it clear that it is the duty of every man in thin country, whether earner or ployer, to do his best for the wel fure and survival of the nation Irrespective of his political views. or his dishike or fear of the Ad ministration.
The Prime Minister, Mr Attlee, who fullowed Mr Vihurchill, took up the latter'a reference to for eign relations and declared: "Thatrialist politicians kind of thing does not do us any good, abroad. I would suggest to him that he should not cry stink ing Roh all the time
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"If the bitterness which the So. Are infeeling into Parliament and party life were to find its counter part ally in the daily relations of cam (al Tr labour throughout ใน, 401 anisfortunes would
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Mr. Churchill said that the Chr position had done their best cumulate with hadrons momentum make
easy Che national 22113 course of foreign key, ured the Prie Minister found t venient to refer profoundly to this in his speech to the United State Congress. However, when the Government rusted in keeping an | Cur five years, by legislation, the extraordinary controla, which even during the war the Coalition Government only renewed from year to year, and when they re fected the Opposition's
proposal for a two-year term, they were im bued by the spirit of Fascism.
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their best maible for their businesses and curfey under the Granciations which prevail They [04] [11 low | niece M deflveted by the hostilily shown to them and to their class and fune Linens by The Socialist Ministers They must seek Best the utmost possible production of which we are capable, and which is permit. led to them,
FACE REALITIES.
Flying Colours
London, Dec. 7.
The Labour Government came out of its first big teat in the Hour of Commons with flying colours when they defeated the Opposition's note of consure yesterday.
The motion was defeated bres 381 putes to 197.-Renter.
Communist List Of War Criminals
TOKYO, DEC. 7
IT WAS DISCLOSED YES- TERDAY THAT JAPANESE COMMUNISTS IN TOKYO HAD PREPARED A LIST OF 1,000 ACCUSED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS, INCLUDING THE EMPEROR AND THE EM PRESS
Premier Shklehara told the Diet his Government was in no position to criticise Allled directives.
Kyodo news agency said that Stedehara's Cabinet received strong blow when I failed to ob lain an Allied reprieve for Prince Morisutan
Nashimata Who WAR thamed
WIT crimes suspect several darn go.
Runwurs are etrculating that
The Cabinet will be forced to reign at the end of The Thot session Assoriated Press.
THROUGH
A GLASS
But the Government, alser, for DARKLY
their part have to face realities. industry and enterprise re weighted down by tie colossal wartime taxation, they will not be able to revive.
"If industry and enterprise are fettered, hampered and hobbled at every step by an ever-spreading network of controls and regula tions, There will be a marked loss of energy at a time when we can least spare it
DESIRE TO HUMILIATE He said that the Government had shown a desire to humiliate their defeated opponents The whole attitude of Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lard President of the Council, had been to offend, injure ntul provoke those over whom they hnd a great Parliamentary jority but, who nevertheless, re presented half the nation, and who would shortly represent the lace
manjority out of dors, Mr. "We have had all types of tion Churchill added amid
laughter. ernments in this country. but we The Opposition Leader continu-have never had Government ed: "I wonder what would have which had set itself not to slig been said if the Conservatives, or even the National Coalition Guy. erament, had been in office and had no better showing to offer them than we see now
"Why should the Guveranent choose this moment in our history for proclaiming great Jew ele partures in political theories. Why Should they raise this greal sy stem of militant socialism and divide us with what must involve increasing bitterness and lack of Ministerial comprehension with
every step they take.
INTERNAL STRUGGLE "Can we afford пе internal struggle of such character at such
struggle
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realime the pit motive Crime There has never been a tavernment which set out to re- vive our prosperity on such con fidence killin impulse stabbing
houry,
ABSOLUTE MADNESS "Undoubtedly if the warfare which the Government are carry- inge out against their opponents in Parliament is extended to the classes they dislike in industry. they will at this critical Junction in our history enforce an enor- mous diminution of the whole Productive, inventive and resolute element inherent in our country." On the question of demobilisa.
a time?" He thought that there in Mr. Churchill said: "is it not should be a reasonable restoration | absolute madness to keep a very of national life before the coun-large number of propte, against try was weakened and torn by their wishes, on full pay and al bitter political
int great expense doing nothing, or which some menders of the Govtoiling Bl artificially invented ernment seek to plunge us
work." Mr. Churghill said that it WZ- He asked specifically that pon the Government that Jual leases from the forces should not ponsibilty must in for the grow. be allowed to drop from 12,000 ing divisions
consequent a dug to 9,000 a day at the end of weakening of the nation.
the year as planned. They are innovators; they ar ASTOUNDING FACT disturbers. I should have thought Referring to the slowness in the that the first endeavour for res re-conversion
Mr. of industry, Churchill said that it was an as- tounding fact that at the end of this year Britain would be em- ploying €70,000 more workers making obsolete weapons to add to the already enormous dumps than in the summer of 1939.
ponsible Minleters would be to secure the greatest measure of co- operation between all parties and all forms of national activity.
"It would take all our united strength to make our way out of the dangers and embarrassments by which we are surrounded and On housing, Mr. Churchill at give the masses of the peopic, who lacked the plans of his most con- have done so well and endured asistent critic during the days of much, the chance of renewing their the Coalition Government--Mr. Ilyas after the harah sufferings of Aneurin
Health.
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NEW YORK, DEC. 6. TOTALITARIAN AND PERIALISTIC INTERESTS ARE STILL STRUĈGLING TO PRESERVE SENATOR O'MAHONEY, DE
THEIR POWER, MUCRAT, OF WYOMING, TOLD A GROUP OF BUSINESSMEN TODAY.
"Great Britain in fighting A little war of agression in the Dutch East Indies to crush the Indonesian counter-parts shington rebels" he declared at a of Wa- meeting of the Insurance Federa tion of New York.
"Britain is doing it not to re- gain their own colonial position of
power but to help the Dutch re-establish their sway over the people of Java. They are not content to lend-fense their own army and navy to sustain the Dutch Empire but they have gone so far as to urganize
Japanese mercenaries to carry on the war!
to maintain a system of imperial
exploitation in Asia."
O'Mahoney said that Russia "Is pursuing a similar policy" in the Middle East and Eastern Europe and struggle for power "rages in South America also," Asso- ciated Press.
Utlawn. Dec. 7. An Indian slates' delegation Arrived here Lu-day from New York. Purvas
134 to ask Canu- dians to assist Infin's industrial development, and also to supply the necessary machinery. Router.
Own Bugbears"
Bretton Woods Now Comes To Fore
WASHINGTON, DEC, 6. AFTER A LONG DELAY, MACHINERY MOVED THIS WEEK FOR THE CREATION OF TWO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AGREED UPON AT THE BRETTON- WOODS CONFERENCE THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND THE WORLD BANK. BRITAIN IS THE KEY TO THE SITUATION. THE DATE INTENDED FOR THE NATIONS TO SIGN THE BRET. TON-WOODS AGREEMENT IS DECEMBER 81.
If Britain signs, severall other countries. will probably follow and the Fund and the Bank are considered almost orr- tain to come into existence as planned.
If Britain does not sign, the prospect is uncertain.
Britain delayed action pending outcome of the loan from the Unit- e
States, British and American ficials entered the third week of their conversations optimistic that they were closer together on the terms for the loan of $3,500,000,000 to 84,000,000,000.
U.S.-Italian Trade Pact
Washington, Dec. 7.
The United States and Italy to- day signed a commercial agree
ment "designed to promote mutual- by advantageons relations.
The reement was concluded in an exchangy of notes between Ita- lian Ambassador Tarchian and Secretary of State James Byrnes in which the two countries indicat ed their willingness to formulate #programme of agreed action "noen to participation by all other nations of like mind."
Most of the last minute talk was centred around the question of what Britain should do about the $18,000,000,000 she owes members of the British Empire and other nations in the sterling bloc area.
Meanwhile, the Export and Im-
The Americna note given to the part Hank has loaned France Italian Ambassador stpulated the $550,000,000 enabling that country elimination of all forms of dis to use the fund to purchase goods crimination in International com. requisitioned when the lend-lease merce, reduction of tarifs and in in effect. France agreed to re-expansion by appropriate Inter pay the loan within 30 years at national and domestic measures of 2-38 per cent, interest, - Ássociat. || production. employment and ex- cd Prous
change and consumption of goods,
-Kasociated Press.
COAST VIGIL EN DED
The man who lagged the first two flying bombs the Germans June 13, 1944, has ended his const launched across the Channel on vigil.
He is Mr. Frederick & Marsh, aged 70, and he was one of Bri tain's auxiliary coastguarda-the intest wartime service to be dia banded. These const-watchers wore generally men above sixty years of age and were mostly ex-Naval
bien.
Japanese Suspected
Tokyo. Dec. 7. The Japanese suspected that the United States had deciphered Japan's military code after Ad- mirel soruku Yamamoto's plane was shot down between Rabaul 1042, it was disclosed to-day by and Bougainvillo on April 18.
Captain Toshikazu Ohmae, for- mer Senior Staff Officer of the Japanese Southern Aren Fleet. In the "Hellfire Corner" aren of
He also disclosed that Vice- the Straits of Dover. Mr. Marsh Admiral Matomei Ugaki, Chief was one of the men who gave his of Staff and other Bag officers services in continual danger from
survived the strafing the days of Bunkick until the end which
run in United States
Captain of the war. He had many narrow Thomas Lanphier escapes and his devotion to duty moto.
killed Yama. won him the British Medal.
Empire The first two "doodle-bugs" he Press logged were two
aircraft with the French coast on a north-wes lighted cockpits coming in from tarly course. He also kept a re- cord of the thousands of shellr fired across the Straits by the Nazi batteries.
Mr. Marah's post was at the end of Folkstone Harbour, Jutting well out into the sea.
The Coastguard service
Dow zons back to its peacetime basis.
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SAILOR KILLED
A sailor was killed by a sou- venir, while emptying the con- tenta of a cartridge by tapping it on are grate in his meas at the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham
He was A. B. George Linton, aged twenty-one, of the trawler "Pembroke,"
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Linton's home address was at Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Sees The King ridge was a German souvenir.
something. but not that," he de-
London, Dec. 7. clared.
Mr. Frederick John Burrow, BIG THREE
Governor-Designate of that up to the present. Sir Stafford King at Buckingham Palace to- Bengal, "The Opposition Leader said was received in audiones by the Cripps had not only been dis day appointing to his friends, but "disappointment.
and kissed hands on
In a brief reference to foreiga vested him when with the In- The King knighted him and in- affairs, Mr, Churchill said: "We signia of Knight Grand Com- are told that the 'Big Three have mander of the Indian Empire. decided never to meet again, which Sir Frederick and Lady Bur-
astrous to us all."
I heard with great grief. As to rows afterwards lunched with the the Ave Foreign Secretaries who King and Queen-Reuter. were to preparḥ*so” many things,
through
bhat secma to have fallen "The condition of Europe is a decisions await us in India. nightmare. Fateful and difficult
Bevan, Minister of all the war.
A CONVULSION
"Unless Mr. Bevan changes his "charge the Government with policy and methods without thei deliberately encouraging partisan slightest delay, he will be as great and faction interests at the costa curse to this country in time not only of national unity, but of of peace as he was a squall nul- our recovery and our vital inter-sance in time of war." esta,
I believe profoundly that the months of excellent building wen attempt to turn Great Britain ther to slip away and, instead of into a Socialist State will, as it helping the building industry to develops, produce widespread start again, he had been shadow- political strife, misery and ruin at boxing his own pot bugbears."
HOUSING PROBLEM
home
part of
PHILIPPINE ELECTION
The
DEBATE
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Government. A greater
"I am not blaming the present
Manila, Dec. 7. Philippine Congress has their inheritance Was a "Mr. Bovan had allowed four sequence of the war and our faith. Acial sension
for a con been convened
throo-day ful, unstinted and prolonged exer- the Spring elections
to arrange for
tion for the common cause."
Membora predicted to-day a hot dobato over the question whether FINANCIAL AID Referring to the financial talks Philippine Army mon will be in Washington, Mr. Churchill said allowed to vote. "This island would not be able Without the use of the "proft borrow from the
that if the Government had to Guerrilla reserviste sro certain to support about three-quarters of seeking capitalist" in the building, and if strict terms were imposed agreed, but whether the
United Slates to win their rights, 'observers the population which now inhabit industry,
Army the housing problem its country is the least it would not be solved, said Mr. by the United States, there was regulars would was less certain. of all large communities to endure Churchill, referring to
Mr. all the more obligation upon the Associated Press. such convulsion."
Bevan's order that the bulk of the affairs on their merits and clear Ministers to deal with Britain's Mr. Churchill likened Britain to building should be done not by all this party and toctrinal trash Vonice, which had built on oma private enterprise, but under the and rubbish away,
of the local authorities.
In conclusion Mr. Churchill.
piro on piles over lagoons, or liko his opponente are racket: "Can wo as a great party inf..
Holland, with dykes to keep out
000 people, and more than half of them must be fed from afar, Surely, measure of commion de cency should regulate the action
NEWSPAPER OFFICE WRECKED
Ankara, Dec. 7;
The Turkish Government would,
the sea, or like Egypt, whose life tears, profiteers and monopolists the state afford, for the sake of was the Nile and irritation. No doubt in a short time we shall
"Hare we are," he said, "48,000, be called also Fascist boasts appearance of unity, to take part soon abolish the press law, which Reminding the Government of all our affairs at home and pond newspapers, and would
In a disastrous downward trend in empowers the authorities to Bus the promises ho said that their abroad? speakers had made about housing
modify logislation regarding poll- during the election. Mr. Churchill give our warning in time about the Premier, Chukru Sarafoglu, an- "Are we not bound in honour to tical parties and mootings, the future and record our censore on nounced today, ly, a massure of common decency Ing that Sir Stafford Cripps told the present?" should restrain their triumph over electors that the Labour Party Ho was as firmly convinced as enquiry
Ho added he had ordered an their follow-countrymen., I shall-would build houses at a rate un-ho was in 1940 that. Britain had. Communist:
into Tuerday's. anti- now speak of the effect of the in- dreamt of by the Conservatives.
demonstration - in tellectual antagoniam which the Sir Stafford amiled but shook his he was still master of her fata Loft Wing paper "Thn" were her future in her hands, and that Istanbul, when the offices of tho Government has oxelted.
hond. "It is quite trub I said and captain of her soul-Reuter, wrecked.--Router.
of the British Government sure quoted a newspaper reports say
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