THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1946.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEBATE
Fireworks Expected In The Commons
Trouble
From
AN
Back-Benchers?
(By Fraser Wighton)
London, Oct. 17.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin will give what the Conservative Opposition as well as the Government supporters expect will be a "massive review of foreign affairs and the. Paris Conference when he opens Parlia ment's two-day foreign policy debate on Tues- day and Wednesday,
During the debate Mr. Bevin is expected to make
an official statement of British policy on the Dardanelles question, According to the pre- sent arrangements, the Opposition seems un- likely to raise the subject of Palestine though this does not rule out the possibility of the subject being broached independently by members.
The heavy artillery of both the Government and the Oppo- sition will be ranged in the debate but the fireworks. if any, may come from a dissident minority of the Government's own. backbenchers, who do not Bec eye to eye with the official policy on such issues as. for instance, Greece, Spain and the Balkans-particularly Al bania.
SPAIN ACCUSED Frontier
Lake Success, N.X. Oct. 17.
Belgium, in a note to the United Nations here today. accused General France's, Spotn of "complicity" un pre- wanting the arrest of Leon' Degrelle, the fugitive Belp an Fascist leader wanted by Bel- gium in connection with treas son charges.
The Belgian note provvies the General Assembly with the opportunity to discuss the phole Spanish controversy, al though the original complaint from Poland--that Spain "threatens the peace-till lies on the agenda of the Security Council and thoro fore pravcuts the Assembly making recommendations of it-Reuter
Gandhi
Accuses
Peshawar, Oct. 17.
Khan Abdul Ghaffak, "Fron- tier Gandhi," stated at a press conference here last night, that the Political Department was hand in glove with the Medlem League and had engineered". the Moslem demonstration against Pandit Nehru, Vice- President of the Indian GoT- erument, when he arrived in Feshawar yesterday to begin a tour of the Northwest Frontier.
Mr. Khan added: "I am straightforward, and I must say frankly I think the Politi- there are probably not more cal Department here does not than 12 of them and though like Mr. Nehru going to the there are others behind them tribal area. There are others, sympathetic in their views who too, whom I do not wish will probably remain mute unname, who do not like him go- less the debate takes an unex-ing and since he has had the audacity to disobey' and is go- pected turn.
ing in spite of them, they want to teach him a lesson."
conference, has only about 10 days in which to get himself abreast with matters at the Foreign Office, lead the debate in Parliament and get off by air from England for the
Under the present arrange United Nations meeting in Newments Mr. Bevin will open the York.
debate on Tuesday and Mr. Labour Critics
Churchill may open on Wednes- day followed by Mr. Attlee. Mr. McNeil will be making his first appearances as a Minister in the foreign debate when he closes it on Wednesday-Reu-them as brothers.”
Critical Labour backbenchers may liven up the debate con- Mr. Bevin, the Prime Minis-siderably. The suggestion is ter, Mr. Clement Attlee, and the that although actively dissident new Minister of State, young on special issues such Scottish. Hector McNeil will Greece, Spain and the Balkans, ter. speak for the Government. The Conservative
leader, Mr. Winston Churchill, the shadow Cabinet front ranker Mr. R.A. Butler and the former Colonini Secretary, Mr. Oliver Stanley, will represent the Conservative Opposition.
Eden Absent
The Conservatives will ho without the former Foreign Secretary Mr. Anthony Eden 08 he is leading a Parliamentary delegation in Brussels and can- not return in time.. This, ac- cording to informed quarters, is the sole reason for his non- intervention in the debate.
On broad issues the Conser- vative Opposition will not be. "lying in wail" for Mr. Bevin with so much of whose policy it is heartily in agreement. understand, however, that the Conservatives wish to advance various positive considerations which they consider vitally necessary at the present time, particularly with reference to the Paris conference and the Council of Foreign Ministers,
Churchill Line
There appears to be a widely held view among the Opposition members that the Council of Foreign Ministers, although it has done much talking and arguing, has nct so far get down to the vital issues now confronting the world.
The Opposition is keen (as, naturally, also are Government, supporters) to know what is going to happen about Ger- many, Through Mr. Churchill the Conservatives are also ex- pected to take an active line in analysing the attitude of Bus- ala at the Paris conference.
Mr. Bevin, just returned from his arduous labour at the Paris
"JANE"
CM ON, SYD-THE GYM CLASS ́ÍL BE OVER BY "NOW!-IT'S TIME, WE, GOT, CRACKING TO
THE CRYPT!
Leading Figures
London Gather In
London, Oct. 18.
The little-publicized presence in England of many leading Middle East personalities gave rise last night to speculation that decisions of the most far reaching importance to relations be- tween the United States, Britain and Russia are in the making.
Among those here or expected within a few days
the Russians."
are Premier Sidky Pasha of Egypt; General Sir Miles Dempsey, Commander-in-Chief. Middle East, Sir Evelyn Barker, G.O.C. Pales tine; and leading members of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. While official quarters offered no explanation of the presence other British, of these and Arab and Jewish Middle East figures, it was disclosed that a major shift of British defence forces in the area was being considered. Whitehall sources confirmed the possibility that its Britain might establish main base in East Africa after withdrawing from Egypt.
"Blunders"
The Sozialist magazine "Tribune," asserting that For- ciga Secretary Bevin was faced with a decision "hardly less far reaching than Neville Cham- berlain's "decision to fly to Munich" said that any "British withdrawal from the Middle East would be followed by the most intensive American oc- cupation, which, by its very nature, would result in equally intensive counter pressure from
O.K. BRAINS!- LEMME MAKE SURE OF JANE FIRST!
to
Mr. Khan said the tribesmen would receive a "New Deal" under the Indian Government and should be educated and given the opportunity, to earn a living. "We want to treat.
Rumours of the discovery of a plot by Moslem fanaties to assassinate Mr. Nehru during his visit here were circulating in Peshawar tonight, but no confirmation could be obtained from official sources. All the Usual precautions observed for visits of important personages have, however, been taken,
Mr. Nehru's itinerary has not yet been issued, but it is known that he will go into the heurt of the tribal area-Reu- ter.
PETITION BY CATHOLICS
London, Oct. 18. Bernard, Cardinal Griffin, ap peals to Catholics and non- Catholics to support petitions asking Mr. Ernest Bevin, For eign Secretary, to Intercede for the immediate release of Yugo slav Archbishop Stepinac. He says that prayers will be said publicly in all British Catholic churches on Sunday for Stepi. nac-Associated Press.
The "Tribune" attributed the Government's present troubles "outstanding political and military blunders made during the Mediterranean campaign." friends the This, the magazine said, lost "virtually every British. Had” in that section of m the world.
R
The Buffer
States would not stand idly As a result, it added, Bri- by." tain's military chiefs had de- Mr. Bevin's policy in the cided to evacuate India and Middle East, therefore, could. Egypt and reduce the military fulfil a function far beyond force in the Middle East, Bet that of Imperial interests of ting up, instead, bases in Kenya even the nationalist Labour policy. It could be nothing less and Tanganyika.
then the buffer that can pre- vent the clash between America and Russia at its most.- dan- The Labour Cabinet, the gerous point, It could prevent "Tribune" said, had, based its the Middle East from becom decisions affecting this area on ing the cockpit of a new con advantages. If the dict between the powers. There military Government followed the prefore, this week's conference ent recommendations and com- may ultimately prove vital," the pleted its withdrawals, the paper asserted. - Associated magazine continued, the United Fress..
BURN? COR! MAKE SURE OF HER, EH?-MAYBE IT WOULD YOU SURE GET BE SAFER LOOK~ / İDEAS, BRAINSI- THIS STUFF 'UD BURN SHE COULDN'T
LIKE TINDER PEACH ON US
Lowr
Fare
ROSES
FOUR ROSES Fene American Whisky
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE
L RONDON
& 00.. Sucers
French Bank Bldg.
MONTGOMERY WARD & COMPANY
Chicago 7, 111, USA
ALLIED PLASTIC COMPANY
Los Angeles, California, 11S.A.
Exclusive Representatives
J. C. MAGUITE &
Head Office:
11 Broadway,
New York 4,
N.Y., U.S.A.
INC.
Hongkong Offic
581-2 Halland House,
Hongkong
Tel. 25648
NOBEL CHEMICAL FINISHES LTD. "Dulux" industrial and decorative finishes. Sole Agents in Hong Kong
།
REISS, BRADLEY & CO., LTD.
National City Bank of New York Building,
Telephones 48006/7.
.2 Queen's Rd: 0,
"Look what I've got-
du Maurier again
THEN!.
SA
BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES
DUD- LEEE!
Your Mind?
Good work, Johnny.
Now for a real smoke at last!'"
You've been patient a long time. Here's your reward
du Maurier are back. The flavour you've missed, the
smoothness you admired, the cool
neas you revelled in - fme takaced
made perfect by the filter tin
are yours to command again
up a du Maurier, at once and rock:
ture a luxury you used to
There'ti never be a better
du MAURIER
BE EXCLUSIVE:FILTER TIPACIO
England