THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1946.
LASKI STEPPING DOWN
No Longer Indispensable To Labour
Russians And Atom Research
Will Resign At Whitsuntide
-(BY RICHARD TOMPKINS)_____
LONDON, MARCH 25, HAROLD LASKI, DIMINUTIVE DOCTRINARIAN AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY, IS EXPECTED TO STEP DOWN SOON.
NOT THAT THE PARTY IS UNGRATEFUL BUT, AFTER ALL, LASKI IS NOT INDISPENSABLE; NOW THAT THE PARTY HAS PULLED ITSELF TOGETHER AND STANDS ON ITS OWN FEET.
Come Whitsuntide.
will be
Tried To Close Down The Pools
Birmingham, March 25.
Alleged to have said he had dis-
Lancastrian
¿Overdue
London, March 25,
A four enginữad Lancastrian sixoraft on the England-Aua. tralia aorvico with five pan- sengore and a crew of five is overdue between Ceylon and the Cocon lelands near Su matra, British Overacas Air- way announced to-night.
Searches are on for the plane which müht be presum od to have met with some mishap the announvernont added. The Lancastrian Tefl Ceylon last Saturday morning.
Router.
covered something which would World Force
Discussion
prove a
"veritable atomic bomb to
(By Rembert James)
Moscow, Mar. 25. Research on the problema of atomle energy, cosmic rays, acro- dynamics and the technique of applying "gesodynamics" to super- apced aviation and artillery pro-
Ht the He is a little man of medium jectiler is high on the agenda of Party's Annual Conference, the height, with black hair parted Soviet Union scientists, during
Laski in the centre, well-cut clothes inade. Ave-year plan. Sergel change the new
a member of and clean shaven face, and dark Vavilov, president of the Academy may continue as
Committee, "If brown eyes that sparkle through of Sciences, reported in a special the Executive article in "Izvestia" yesterday, elected," he says, but the office shell-rimmed glasses. He gives
"Physicists.
with other sciente plan has a one-year term, and his the impression not of a Labour of what he inside the chairmanship will have ended.lender but rather beraling the energy
Laski has no regrets about it. really is a schoolmaster. Atomic kernel, which will open up
In his study he la the intellee such rent prospects before He has seen the Party gain its
innity," he wrote. "Without first majority and he is antis-tun, an engaging, warm-heart- doubt, the use of Liris energy in fied. Now he wants more leled lecturer ruminating on. poli-I have in mind will close all pools time will place the problems of sure for teaching and writing. tical philosophy in a purely energy and transportation una Encountering Laski in his thearelical way.
wrapping up now plane."
study in the London School of his professorial answer in huge In the technical department, Vavily said, export have under Economics and Political Science bundles of words,
at London University, where he developinent Lalien projects Far
a practicing of the theory of runstaney, move lecturis, you nici
in the me idealist; ment and vibration chanical system, neobleme of dur-
ability in construction. and the nero-mestnales of wings,
Hundreds ofanilliers of rubles will be spent during the next five years on new universities, on humirjand facilities for velentists: -Associated Press.
"
The English Gentleman .. "The typical embodiment, of English civiliantion." he says, "The devil is not as fed as he "the gentleman, who came is painted." Laski mueen about straight from the Renaissance. himself, with a sly smile, "and The
typical embodiment of his evil-minded socialiginis American civilisation the nothing more than the logical business man. He takes more development of Jeffersohian de-limited views than the gentle moerney in the 20th century."
man, who is a man of leisure and who is not concentrated on success or failure, because he's Kot security. The business man. thinking of success failure, therefore is intensively [concentrated on one subject.
"Neither is leal. The ideal performance of a function ja
At-Bomb Test
Test Delay Pleases Some
NEW YORK, MAR. 24.
President Truman's order delaying the atomic bomb tests to a later date fits in well with the wishes of some scien- tists, who have been quietly' but sharply critical of the original date planned on the grounds that it is prems.
ture.
They think that insufficient ime was allowed by the first planned date of the test for thorough preparations and that tests at that time would have resulted in informa- tion on the risks to be involved being incomplete. Scientists also believe that atomic bomb, and they fear damage done to naval ships, in the public, inay get the Iden "not the test would be far less than that atomic bomba are the devastation to cities by the had."
VANISHING FARM
IN OXFORD
round their tiny Oxfordshire vil dago last night and discovered, a farm had vanished.
the Pools," Watson Hartley, 58, accountant, was at the Birming ham Assizes sentenced to nine ing money with intent to extort months imprisonment for demand- from the Secretary of the Na- tional Pool Promoters Association, and with threatening to
publish matter affecting the Association
It was stated that Braunton, Secretary of the N.P. P.A. re coived a letter from Hartley on Jan. 3 saying he had discovered matters which would make the Poole impossible. Braunton saw Hartley who told him "the scheme
within a fortnight." Later Hart: leg called at Braunton's office and said "What I want is £100,000 down and 1 weekly-tax free of course-paid to me so long as, remain silent."
in Hartley said vidence he prepared á document which he considered would put the pools Inside the law and was trying to Rell that information."
Ilis scheme was to form foot- ball pools into trusts and he had taken degal, advice on this. Retter.
In New York
in a
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New York, March 26. Military and navel representa- tives of the "Big Five"-Britain, Russia, France,
and the
Banks, Shipping & Insurance Companies, Mereliants, Manu- United States Chismeet New York hotel to-day to discuss facturors and other commercial concerns are therefore invited establishing a world to communicate to the Secretary of the Chamber in writing police force.
(not by 'phone) :-- They will discuss the size of the
will contri
Name of Company force to which cach bute half and the rest of tho United Nations the other half,
plans for
According to unconfirmed re- ports several members of the Mili- tary Committee indicated to the United States the need for creat Ing an international forco 2,000,000 men.
of
It is pointed out that once the Military Committee gets down to its discussions little to nothing will be made publ. It war de cided at Its London meeting that absolute secrecy, was necessary in military talks and planning.
Reuter.
WOMAN DYED SKIN TO DECEIVE JAPS
who escaped from a Japanese concentration
camp, stained her skin, and lived as a Chinese peasant, has arrived in Sydney.
one that is socially useful, in- A woman teresting in itself, and leaves enough leisure that can be fill- led in a way that is creatively
dignified."
She is Miss Wynette McDonald, around Shanghai and North of St. Kilda, Melbourne, whe China, came from,Hong Kong in MS. Bonaventure.
"In 1949 I left Melbourne for Shanghai to take a holiday," she sold.
"I decided to stay, and became a teacher at the Poter Pan School, conducted by Mrs. A. E. Taylor,: of Brisbane.
Laski has an answer on any scientists have subject. It their way, the atomic bomb will be controlled, he says.... It was go for the U.N.O. to have a crisis at the start to prove it could overcome it.. Russia is a dictatorship but because of its economic foundations it can become a democracy, when the conviction grows in Russia that she can carry on her experiment without interference."..... the Treatment was fairly At least a few scientists are British Conservatives can come able. After nine months of camp also convinced that the navy has back, if they reshape and re-life I planned to escape.
"Two native boys decided to not, received all the information model their Party, and if the that the army gathered at the Labour Party fails in housing, go with me,
Wires Snipped testa in New Mexico which for instance."
Unpredictable
that
When war was school was closed and all tenohers were taken to Lunghwa concon- tration camp.
...
Many still showed signs of mal- nutrition.
On board wero Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Colman, unele and aunt of Ronald Colman, the film actor.
declared the Albanian
Murdered In Bari
reason-
.....
"Onn sight, during the chang- were held last summer, They A theoretician, it is said that way also that the my have Laski never has had the experi-ing of the guard, we snipped the "Free of the camp, I changed withheld some of the informa-ence of pushing a cold proposi3 barbed wire with cutters. Oxford, March 25. The people of Kingham looked tion gathered at that time con- tion through hard-headed. bust into the clothes of a Chinese pea- agent-provocateurs and Italian
ncas men. But Laski has kept sant..and smeared my face with cerning the tests.
the Labour Party alive he has walnut oil and lodine.
"After leaving the camp we en Since only a few ships are stated its policies and compelled
lared guerrilla territory, and nine Early this morning at Retford, expected to be destroyed in the people to think more than '100 miles away in tests planned for the near fu
A Stimulus
days later were amid the Lung Nottinghamshire, many of the
chong war. ture, seme acientists doubt that Perhaps his greatest contri- The two native boys and my 13,900 townsfolk di-covered they enough-instrumenta can be debution to the Labour Party has self lived with die Chinese for had a now farm.
an aggression on time to record the been his teaching at London. months. The Chinese know who Farmer Thomas Allen had developed in cided to move after five years in many different degrees of blast University where he has in- I was, and helped 'ús. •
"Later, dressed, dy rice coolles, Oxfordshire. So dead on time and heat and the suction waves doctrinated n whole generation last night's -0.30 Special has and radio-active rays which are of students in the philosophy of the two boys and I entered the pulled out of Kingham Station Bure to be created by the binsta. socialism.
Kates of Shanghai..
When we escaped from Lung
and with it went Allen's farm. A great many of the effects Never remote or condescend
Cows and bulls with rings through which are to-be-teaed-require ing-to-students, be-is-generous- camp the Japanese had put
their neses, a collection of bathed new instruments and unusual with his time and infinitely help-/brice on our honda.alian civiliona..in a Bari street
and
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London, Mar, 25. Tirana radio sald last night that a member of tho Albanian Military Mission to the Allied.. Mediterranean Headquarters had been fouly murdered by fascist policemen" and demanded Churough investigation of alleged crime.
the
The broadcast heard by the Associated Press, asserted that a conquering country" cannot re- main silent in the face of such conquered nation."
the part of a Tho murdered Albanian was identified as Sergeant-Major Lezir Kerimi.
The broadcaster sald that Keriml and some comrades were Involved in fight with
adding that when the Italian looking calves and a goose or two planning, An explosion in the ful. He is soft-spoken
In Shanghai, a Portuguese re- police arrived Kerimi walked off „peared from the trucks
cognised one of the native boys to Inform the Albanian Military of the air for instance, may bring a completely composed, moving as and turned us over to the Japa thea a habit of moving trug tidal wave effect like a long quietly and eficiently, as a well-ned. Wo had been sold for 2,003 Mission of what had happened and his form by Special train, Yester swell.
trained-nurse, in explaining eleven. day was the secundme in five An explosion at water-level ments of political science to un- The Japanese questioned us
might well cause envitation order-graduates.
for, days, and later sentenced us At the head of the travelling a cup-shaped depression reach- He has been. continuous to douth, -farm train of 31 trucks
Ronald Colman's Relatives in sing clear to the ocean bottom stimulus to his Party. At the special corridor carriage with and Testinoibly in blg same
time he has helped the fought my own care and appeal
"Through four compartments travelled Al- breakers with an upset in the recesses of distrust of the o-ed neginst the sentence for Jen's family. The move, said Al- len, cost well over 300-Reuter, centre and an entirely unpre-position,
HOTLITY detable turbulence. Aspociated On the ove of the Party's confinement, where I stayed for Press.
nacension to power, Laski's pub-10 months and eight days until He utterances evoked criticism, the Japanese surrender. and repudiation.
"Now that I am back home I Embarrassed by his state- have nothing but the happiest Washington, Mar. 24.. Gorman experiments with heavy-
to split the perplexed over President Tru Party used a lengthy, explana-whom I met fn. prison camp are
flovernment circles here scomments and intimations, the memories of the Chinese people.
Chinese political prisoners
satisfactory. Prof. Otto Hahn, fic atom bomb tests, as the test Laski had filed writs. for libel The Bonaventure brought to
unman's. postponement of the Pac- tion of Party policies, after my friends for life." Germany's Nobel prize-winning task force has been already put against, newspapers which had Sydney 166 men, women, and atomic scientist, suid to-day,
letter alleging ho children who had been in Japaz in motion and, the United. Na-published a an effective radio-active substance,
net blive heavy water, motilons meeting as well as son had said his Party would use more concentration camps in and but is used as an auxiliary for tinued congressional sessions, violence, if necessary, to gain the splitting of uranium atonis, which were mentioned as the its ends.
years.
- NAZI EXPERIMENTS
A FAILURE
Mindon, Mar. 25.
water in attempts atom durlug" the war were
PUZZLED
was then
оп
A
times.
agent provocateurs.”
"It is the duty of the allied commission
dut carry thorough Investigation of the murder and to punish the guilty" Press. interpreter the broadcast Bald.—Associated
to
effectively by using carboniferators to witness the experiment, lence has no chance of being auc-not be committed to Big Three
NEHRU VISIT FORBIDDEN
New Delhi, Mar, 25. Tho. English newspaper Statesman," published in both
ment in Burma for "persisting Calcutta and New Delhi, has criticized the British
Congress Party Leader Nehru, in its refusal" to allow Indian to visit that country.
govern-
"This bureaucratic nonsense
巍
is that last way to convince the Burmeso,that Britain sincere in her promise of early Dominion status" the newspaper said,Associated Press.
DEATH SENTENCES
"Mga Badspesty Max: 26. Former Hungarian" "Promier
Social Democrat he explained. "Wo expected to reasons for the postponement,
ed that Clement Attlee, in a need heavy water, but it was-not have both boon definite for Laski explains that he la companying Prime Minister so. Americans have proved that some time.
Social-Democrat and doesn't Churchill to the Potsdam. Con- this can be done more
Capital Hill has not noted any believe any advantage in to be forence, go only as an observer. widespread, clamour from legis- gained by violence; that vio- He said the Labour Party could (Hoary, wator han Kravily greater
than ordinary water. Its hydrogen content is The Initial reaction to tho-pro- cessful in founding a new state, decisions, atomic weight two, rather than pidente, unexpected decision, unless there has been tyranny Attloe did accompany Chur- Dome Sztojay Bstojakavice and atomic weight one).Associated was that it is related in some and long epochs of suffering, chill, after announcing that is former vicesPremier Jonas Hats degren to the international con- "I think it is by persuasion "principal" colleagues" in the were sentenced to death for war troversy over the army's role (rather than coercion that change House of Commons had agreed crimes by the Hungarian People's Warsaw," Mart 20%- in, future atomic bomb devalor- should be effected,” he adds. timt he should accept the In: Court, it was learned yesterday." The Provisional Polish Governments and to the Administra: "Civilisation is the victory of vitation. Coniment at the time Death santancha "ware" also pass. ment is to remove "within a few tion's difficulties in mustoring persuasion ever coercion, and I noted that it was allen to Brind do former Finance Minister days the censorship of all presumefent votes in the house hope I'm a civilined
Med by for
be-tish political traditions that alos Romenyj Schneller, who pre- pondents for the Bras time is sonato, for: Its atomic develop ligne Cabinet Minister should be sided over the government o
elation to prevent the end of the war, it was for ment programme- Associator || Again, bie Party virtually re- subject to Party bosses, Asso peace during the
pudiated him when he suggenti clated Press.
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