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CHURCHILL WAGS HIS HEAD Blames Government For Loss Of Life In India
Cripps:-Position Not Hopeless
London, Dec. 13. Winston Churchill, swaying his body and wagging his head like a great caged bear, told the House of Commons yesterday that he expect- ed civil war in India and accused the Labour. Government of direct responsibility for thou- sands of lives already lost in communal vio- lence.
REMBRANDT STOLEN
Hamburg, Dec, 12
A Cologne art dealer na ed Rudolph Bartholomew has confessed to the recent theft of the £250,000 Rembrandt painting "Christ at the Whip- from
the Cologne ping Post kareus..
He said he “became in fatuated with the idea of pos sessing mich a valuable paint- ing for a little while. Ren-
lot.
us as it would have done in our
fathers' me."
of Nehru took over, Lion
"No Time To
Wait" In Palestine
Basle, Dec. 13. Berl Locker, a mem- ber of the Jewish Agency Executive, today sup ported the Palestine partition proposal on the grounds of expediency" and "realism."
Sir Stafford Cripps, brilliant legal mind of the
Government, said that only full Indian agree ment to Britain's plan to melt opposing Indian political and religious beliefs into a single uni- fied administration would prevent "the disas-
He doubted very much whether -ter of civil strife."
Locker, who is a Jewish Labour Although British efforts fail-world. Those who are acquaint-the official figure of 10,000 lives
Party leader in London, told the lems into agreement with the of our relations with India ever presented half the total of racial/World Zionist Congress "there is ed last week to bring the Mosed with the general movement lost since the interim administra
no time to wait" for the establish- Congress Party and Sikh repre- the last 20 years have hoped and religious murders to date. sentatives over the power of that the desire of many Indians
"I have been informed that itment of a Jewish state on hia- Government be allotted by to be rid forever of British was Nehru himself who gave thetoric boundles of. Palestine.
He added, "England wants to India's constitution writing rule and guidance would have order, which the provincial gov stay in the Middle East and Constituent Assembly. Sir brought a melting of bearts/crament of Bihar had been afraid Stafford a member of the among the vast population into give, for police and troops to Russia wants to push in. It is Gabinet Mission to the subcon habiting the Indian continent fire upon the Hindu mob who tinent-declared:
and that they would have joined were exterminating the Muslim play a new role in Jewish life but American Jewish leaders did together to maintain peace and minority in their midst. That is little to bring immigration from unity in India and stride more certainly to his credit. May it be
America to Palestine and surely into their independent taken as an encouraging sign they want to assume leadership
Nevertheless I must record my in Zionism." future.
No Melting Of Hearts own belief which I have long
Another member of the Ex. of New "It is necessary to place on held, that any attempt to establishecutive, Mrs. Epstein reign of Hindu record the undoubted fact that a
"I do not wish the House to the git the impression that position is hopeless."_
Sir Stafford admitted that Britain is puzzled about how to hand over the ruling power- to an Indian Government with
numerical
war."
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community of 5,000.000 "humbly accepts ita growing responsibili ties" but "our destiny is not in our own hands. It is foolhardy not to understand that we part of the whole world complex," Mrs. Epstein, President of the Shah Hadassah, added: "To try to blew new life into the British mandate over Palestine, la
nowhere."--Associated lead us Press.
out strife and declared that the no such melting of hearts has majority in India will never be / York, said an American Jewish greatest difficulty was that Hin- dus and Moslems "have not occurred. In fact I think that achieved without civil
that would be considered an un-Associated Press and Reuter. shown themselves prepared to derstatement. On the contrary, trust one another."
He admitted, too, that clea- all the facts and omens point to
a revival in an acute and violent No factions Vages among Indian are a fundamental divergence of form of internal hatreds and indepen- quarrels which have long lain the plan for Indian dence a plan under which the dormant under the mildest in- Moslems seek a loose. Central competence of liberal British Government which would give control. To me it would come them a large realisation of their as no surprise if there was com- dreams of Pakistan, an indepen-plete failure to agree, dent Mosiem state, while
Central Administration.
the
"As I warned the House in
Secrets To
Be Divulged
New York, Dec. 12.. The British delegation to the Congress Party wants a strong 1931, if we were to wash our UNO in a statement here today hands of responsibility, a force said there had never Leeri al Sir Stafford, told the House civil war would immediately any time any proposal froni Bri- that after careful reexamina- break out between Muslime and tion of the scheme put forward: in May last, the Government was convinced that it was not only fair but a feasible scheme "We can see no other way by which the disaster of civil strife can be avoided."
Violent Propaganda
ity"
The statement was issued
the
peared
trostudee
into, the General
4.
DEATH OF DR. DANSON
to
Walkerbury
K
1911
He re- after
In
he Edinburgh where Bishop
1930 and 1943.-Associated
London, Dec. 13. should that any Lain
nation
The death of Dr. E.DL. Danson, divulge the number of its atomic 68, who retired three months ago and Hindus."
"But this warning, like bombs, still less its atomic secrets, as bishop of Edinburght
Primus of the Episcopal Church others, fell on deaf ears," Mr. by Jan. 15.
In of Sectland because of health, Churchill said. He added that he always bore in min
several American yesterday., words used by his father when answer to reports which have ap-was announced in he was Secretary for India 60.
As- Cathedral as chaplain in years ago in 1885-"Our rule incers that the proposal in Dr. Danson went to Singapore India-is as if it were a sheet bly by Sir Hartley Shawcross and became Bishop of Labuan
of and Sarawak in 1917. Sir Stafford concluded byfoil spread over the surface calling for the establishment expressing the conviction that und keeping calm and quiet and an international body to supervise signed after 14 years and it was essential that all parties unruffled by storms an iminesce 'rensus of troops and arma- being assistant Bishop in Carlisle, in India shculd call a halt to and profound cccan of human-ments would virtually mean that went to the violent propaganda that had
Since Victoria stirred the people during the last few months.
That was the task, comment- Mr. Winston Churchill, lea- der of the Opposition, associated ed Mr. Churchill, that with all himself with Sir Stafford in his their shortcomings and through appeal to the Indian parties to all their ordeals, they had discontinue the violent, proga-faithfully and Icyally pursued ainee Queen Victoria assumed ganda.
"Agreement in India, which the Imperial Crown.
"That is the task which we was the basis of all our policy
now declared ourselves declarations, was an indispen-have sable condition. Instead there willing to abandon, abandon has been strife and bloodshed completely provided we and the prospect of more and such assurances worse to come."
.
have
her became had disclose Amerien
to atemic bomb secrets by Jan. 15. Primus --Reuter.
of agreement A between the Indian races, re-
rious parties" and forces,
of responsibility will dear us for leaving India to a hideous collapse and catastrophe....
Press.
Germans Have A New Plan
Hamburg, Dec. 12. new plan drawn up by Germans themselves to allow Germany more food, permit more in- dustrial production and enable more goods to be made for the administration, has been an- nounced.
The plan would give Brills 1000 ntarks, leaving a deficit
instead of taxpayers 1,223,090,000 United States "more value for their money," 1000.000 inarks.
The Faving to United "Indeed is claimed. Known as the "Mueller
of
1,340,-
States
the.
fac.
Mr. Churchill, on behalf of the Opposition, disclaimed all Labour responsibility for the Government's present policy and
"We have no such assurances charged it through invfting
an interim at the present time" (Conser-and Congress to form Government, with "precipita-vative cheers),
Mr. Churchill added: ting a series of massacres un-
been Dr. Rudolf Mueller, head of the 112.000.000 acks, according to the paralleled in Indis since the it is certain that more people Plan" It has been drown up by and British taxpayers would be
lives of have Just their
violence bi-zonal committee for economice calculations of the plan.
German planners urge in India by mutiny of 1857."
Mr. Churchill, alluding to his wounded
Nehru's Goverment was at Minden in the British zone.
I asks for the ban on the Allies to stop dismantling
Dut insistence upon the debate, said since
Industries" and to Previous 30 manufacture of aluminium to be tories in all but "out and in the it would be a pity if the Bri-installed in office four months
lifted and for permission to in-jarmaments passed ago, than
of tish Empire in India
production
tools,grant foreign credits, currency reform, stabilisation of the mark Foretaste Of Future?
machinery and chemicals. was only
Proposals for the expansion of price and wage readjustment of
release of This, he said,
based on the taxes and the of what might well export trade are foretaste come in the future. It might be world market price for Germanal to the German Industry.-—
the rate of ten Reuter. only the first few heavy drops prdouction st Mr. Churchill said: "Thereof rain before the thunderstorm marks to the pound sterling.
The present rate is 40 marks is. a general broke. was, and still
from "high to the pound sterling. measure of consent here and
rcughout the land, to the final and credible witnesses" of what i iransference of power, from the had taken place in Bihar, House of Commons into Indian Churchill said it cast into hands, but that transference, if shade the, Armenian atrocities calories per day to 2,000 calories it is to take place, must be with, which Mr. Gladstone
uut of life into history without years." the House of Commons seeming the tu take any interest in affair and without any record of the Hansard iz even transaction.
Queling reports
s
д
crease
The plan maintains that if Mr.more food were imported
and
the the basic ration raised from 1.5501
had German workers would produce marks' worth of
more
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The liberal weekly "The Na- Indian people. Only in
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announce the take place without measureless our faculty of horror is
world full of misery cost of food would be 1.828,000.-Truman to
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