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MARRIAGE
LEE SEQUEIRA.—Ün January 25, 1947, at the Church f Christ the King, Shanghai, by the Rev. Leo F. McGreal, officiating. William son oft
of Mr. and Mrs. George Lee of Hazardville Connecticut, to Eliota Cecilia, daughter of the late Augusto Antonio Sequeira and of Mrs. Marie da Silva Sequeira, of Shanghai,
SMITH-NEWNHAM-
Jan.
20. 1947, quietly, in Edin burgh, Brigader Waiter Joha Lindley Smith te Mrs. Phyllis Newnham, widow of Colonel 1. A. Newnham, G.C., M.C.
SAI ON DISASTER
THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1917.
General Marshall: How Much Will Policy Change
as
understanding,
Washington, Feb. 2. Marshall is believed to be their. During that period Marshall How much will American kind of a man-frank, firm and foreign policy the changed the result of the appointment] of Gen. George C. Marshall as Secretary of State' and the Republican domination of Con- *ress?
strengthened all agencies con- cerned with inter-American military cooperation, fosterid Defense the inter-American Commission and had many per- sonal contacts among officers af the American Republics.
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During the war the Russians gained tremendous respect for him. He was decorated with the Soviet order of Suvorov. He received the award on the night Allies invaded Competent observers' believe the Western
It is believed thar in the that General Marshall will face Normandy and the.. then Soviet civilian fields his attitude wh. to the United be one of mine cooperation a major dispute with the top-Ambassador Tanking Republican unless he is States, Andrel Gromyko, credit-al-goulavill and persons fami- willing
United ed Marsh with a consider liar with his methods and man. to change States policy, while Byrnes' able part of the success" ner predict that ha lies with "Get tough with Russia" policy achieved by the Allies on the the Latin-American Diplogistle will be made even tougher.
fronts of North Africa, Italy Corps will swiftly become par Great importance is being and the
s and friendly. Marsilia attached to Republican Senator Europe."
reputed for his geography, and Vandenberg's recent Cleveland
hitonical knowledge, and it is believed that he would envisage speech, his first since he took over the chairmanship of the There may be some misgivinter-American relations from Foreign Relations Committee. ings in the United States about v cemprehensive standpoint and where he will direct the con- the appointment of a military awareness of historical factors sideration of all peace treaties. man to the traditionally civilian that contributed to regionu re- Less than a week after Mar-job of Secretary of State. but lationships among the Ameri- stall had published his Chinese they may be tempered by relief can Republics. report" damning extremists, that such a man, will find it both in Chiang Kai-shek's Gov-easter to get along with ernment and among the Com- Russians..
seriał war over
Some Misgiving
the
First Step
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As regards Marshall's, views munists, Vandenberg suggested The speaker of the House of the particular problem of the, abandonment of United Representatives, Joseph Mar- Argentina. they would doub States mediation efforts be tin, expressed such a thoughtlessig be influenced by his war tween the warring parties and when he said "Marshall should tone experience and views on called en the country to throw give that dignified firmness and kimispheric defense. It is tou its diplomatic, economic
and type of leadership that is con- rly ye! to anticipate his prob behind the sistent with the strength of military weight
and Americans." Nationalist. Government non-Communist minority par- ties. This would appear to differ from Marshall's opinion. that China's only hope lies in The liberal groups of all par-1 Lies.
Tough To Russia
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policy and attitude; but current surmises, fased on his carlier methods, are that Mar- shall as the first step would thor-"i ughly inform himself on the Argentine situation, entire consulting responsible depart- mutal officers for information and background.
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The Vandenberg-Byrnes dis- pute over Argentina, which, has been in progress for a year, muy or may not be carried ever into the Marshall regime., Na Marshall's dine here knows views regarding Argentina, but
Since many influential sena- Hyrnes and Vandenberg made it clear in Cleveland how far tors think Argentine relations
thai a matter for consideration apart they have been in
he highest political level. it. is would issue.
Vandenberg called for an im-surmised that Marshall mediate Pan-American Confer- usult the President and mem- the Cabinet before ence to negotiate a permanent byrs of
deci- pact and making any irrevocable hemisphere defence charged that Byrnes, by delet- sion. ing the conference, had injured To his new assignment,
G-gear-old General brings the good neighbour policy.
canilor, veracity, pose and a Triendly personality backed up with a strong will to do his will best. These attributes serve him well in parrying with foreign diplomats.
that
Retains Rank
the
Ugly rumours cirqulating yes- terday opplying that the "Sai On" tive disaster may not have been Vandenberg made it clear at acidental in its origin will, pre- Cleveland that the Republican Suanbly, ensure
a close official Party will have nothing to du
but a tough. fquiry into the calamity. It does with anything
policy towards Russia and, in d fallone, even if threatening the course of a discussion
an letters were received, that the
America and the United Tragis outbreak
actually Nations, said: "If WRN
one day started by incendiaries, hue it is sume aggressor
the leave imperative than all the circum- United Nations in order to be
General Reaction investigated publicly, free of its restraint the rest of -tapers he covering on all the factors which the world has ready made at
Byrnes answered Vandenberg contributed to the heavy toll of hand the well-geared machinery
and human life." Na final estimate of for another immediate when he reiterated his April 3 the United the tutal of deaths was possible rand alliance swiftly and overstatement
the States would not sit down at even late into yesterday evening, whelmingly to confront
offender."
a conference with Argentina to!
He will retain his rank The eyes of America, and of negotiate such a defense pact
Under the world, will be upon Mar- until Argentine had fulfilled Five-Star-General.
commit special Act of Congress, Five- shall when he takes his place her Inter-American alongside the Russians
ablements, especially the one to rid Star-Generals and Admirala de and experienced negotiators the country of Nazi influences, not retire, but only revert to
and Many experienced diplomatic, inactive statea s
observers regarded Marshall's Washington's politically sur appointment favourably from, charged air never has made it the standpoint of international famous as a "city of brotherly relations.
love." But throughout his rests direction of the war, Marshall -This general reaction
unique in on the fact that Marshall, as gained a position Chief of Staff, was thoroughly public life through his lack of conversant with hemispheres enemies and critics. Whether affairs and was extremely at history will uphold this eco- tentive and cooperative to Latin fade will depend on events in American officers and diplo- the months to come.-United mats throughout the war.
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hampering of estapes by the sws Vishinsky.
The Soviets will be watching tem af anti-pincy grilles, aided
have recently by the inevitable panic, were fea-him too. They tures of the tragedy that call for switched to a more conciliatory attitude towards the western study by experts. Quite a num- bee of the victims were not pas every word and gesture to de world and will weigh Marshall's sengers in were on board paying termine his attitude toward farewells to relatives and friends them and the future course of
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Press.
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
as
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CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
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"Okay, so I'm training Junior lo step into my shoes 1 still don't remember saying anything about my shirts and neckties?”
Takes Americans For A Joy Ride
a bera of the skies over Russia's Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 3.
Bulgarian Beau battlegrounds of World War II. Brummel who used his Hypnotic, Arrested in the huge casino
A modern
European personality to 'was his way into mess at the army's the confidence of american od headquarters here by gumy
whe cars up to the rank of general, and investigator.
recognized into
the army
of WAG officers at him from the days before his this United States Army head first arrest, Peter was placed in
hands the quarters, Fas been exposed after
of a military polies an investigation which led army lieutenant at the casino's entrance investigators all over Europe. to await arrival of MPs to take
to jail. The United Press obtained the him to story from three different sources. While waiting, Guverdcheljev They included the entprit himself, drew himself up to the full dignity portation to Bulgaria, and from second lieutenant in the face; and who sits in jail here awaiting de of a Russian officer, starce, the army officials who confirmed most demanded his release. of Peter Guverzihehev's story and Screams To Freedom
When the Leutenant demurred, and did not deny the rest of it. Un- officially, part of the story is still Peter flashed his forged identity being suppressed to protect the papers, servanted that he, as a red faces of several Ameri-high ranking Soviet officer, had very con
officers, both male and female. to catch a plane in 15 minutes. "Just
me call
Pele,' the If the imposed delay caused him English speaking masquerader in to miss the plane it
hard would go vited his American friends dur with the lieutenant, he threatened. ing his year long impersonation Imagining the entire weight of included Rasstan army officialdom descend-. career. That
dramatic jailing upon is head, the young everything from breaks and sleight-of-hand (cuff) lieutenant quailed under the pres removals to flights with American sure and allowed his prisoner 10. officers to the capitals of Europe go. and being guest of renour at an Our Bulgarian hero next ap American general's party on that peared on the Riviera, after a trip through Luxembourg and Riviera.
Despite the fact that investiga- France, where he used a phony to change tors once credited him with being identification, pepers a high priority Russian spy, the German reichsmarks Into franca. little 24-year-old glamour boy to On the Riviera he tonted his own day stands legally acquilted of horn loudly to the tune of dozens everyt ing except masquerading of German planes shot down in in American and Russian uni Russia and of leading the Red air forns, obtaining food and lodging forces to
to glorious victory. under false pretences and-lead- Before this brassy cuslaught, ing certain American officers it is reported, the American army around by the nuse.
extent A military fell prey to the
of fur- government buurt has sentenced ther personal friendships, male him to two years' imprisonmetit), and which means automatic deporta-led by an American general. It
and a party sponsor... and female, was there that Peter continued
career
Just prior to the "Sai On's" de American policy, parture for Camton. Even so, it It is to Marshall's advantage seems appalling demanding ex- that his initiation into diplo planation? that the death roll matic affairs during the past should have been so shockingly year has been in one of high when the evidence indicates toughest spots in the world- thar the fire brigade was, thanks civil war-torn China. t 13 frustrating exasperating, to a watcher on the roof of the months he has watched oriental Harbour Office, actually on its "diplomacy", intrigue, suspicion way to the wharf before the and corruption at its worst. alarm was raised aboard the "Sai
By Comparison On. The disaster ranks as among With that background, the worst known in the harbour Four negotiations and the end- of Hong Kong and it cannot be less debates with the Russians There are two extremely live leads-his heart 7 to cut permitted to pass into future his over procedure an detail may, contrasting types of opening down ruffs by declarer's side tory without an inquiry which to the General, seem simple by leads, when considered from in Buch
a perfectly-fitting Tite's Yugoslav, purtisans in 1949 ported that, besides love, he also may serve to bring out the pos comparison. sibility of measures that will pre- vent a repetition.
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"The Authority on Authorities"
CONTRAST IN LEADS
Lion.
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have notice what would curred if West had made any of his three possible conserva
Joined Tito
Fim
his exploitation. of the American No one knows exactly when this air force which altogether netted Alice in Wonderland fantasy first air vacation flights to Rome, began but army investigator re- London. Paris, Cannes and Nice. party reveal that the Bulgarian It was also there that Peter was fight, Heutenant, burn in Kacka, ay burayed by a woman, one
deserted Bulgaria,
1. Marshal of his former victims. It was re-
Was
In extracted money, from Bome
female friends.-United Press.
first
Basques Held Without Trial
a third spade for West to ruff. on the side. Army officials admt years 11 months without trial.
officers
were involved. When arrested, Peter Fad a who
and was captured by the Germans. Those who watched Marshall the broadest standpoint. One situation as this seemed to be.
is conservative and the other or the.. fourth-best card of American army forces berted: during the war at Big Three venturesome. Whether to favor either mince. If any of those him from a German camp neur military conferences and have
end and llowed his short diplomatic one of these or the other de-leads had been made, the de Leipzig at the war's THE WAY. OPEN carcer in China predict that he pends on many circumstances, clarer would quickly have driven placed him in a displaced persons' will meet the test well. He can but especially the kind of bid out the trump A, then the last camp at Kassel. It was there that he first planned his flights of grandeur and acquired his From the frank exchange of be firm when necessary and, as ding which has been done. If two trumps, so that he could
the declarer seems to be in a have lost nothing but a trick American uniform, wearing a messages between Mr. Bevin and he showed in China, has
contract which is likely to be each in spades, hearts and first lieutenant's bars on his hel- Marshal Stalin, it is evident that putlence of Job.
should clubs.
liner and officer's shirt, 10-1 met the Foreign Secretary's broadcast
The Russians are known to difficult to make, you
Loward care to prevent
several out-of- with military
men. before Christmas awakened gen-
admire great
But West struck a blow for gether
uniform- Cerman giving him the trick which may his own side, taking a `risk—
insignia picees.
London, Feb. 3.. uine misgivings in the Kremlin.
make his project successful justifiable in the premises of He drew his first snappy Ameri-
at Frankfurt am The can salutes
for Under-Secretary Why is a matter for some won-
But if he and his partner did setting up an honor for-South, Wiesbaden Then he began Foreign Affairs, Mr. Christop der. It may be that the repeated Mr. Bevin's remark in his Decor bidding which makes the cont. He led his spade A and fol- travelling Fattacks made on Mr. Bevin by her broadcast that "Britain does tract seem very safe. against lowed with the 3, in the hope militar, hain the best society the hexy Mayhew, told the House of his back-bench critics for his sup-nut tic herself to anybody except normal defense, your job in that his partner would either It during this stage in his Commons today that the Gov. ernment is making inquiries of. posed lack of cardiality to Russia in regard to her obligations under rubber contract is to become win that or else manage to stop career that he made his first ac- are taken more seriously there the Charter" surely meant noth aggressive or should the word trumps on the first round. That Peter delighted in telling arm the nine Basques who, accord- quaintance with WAC officer the Spanish Government about than in London. Why these mising more than that no existing be offensive 7-to strive for latter hope was realized. When investigators and his reporte: ing to the questioner, Mr. givings should have been expressed Alliance excluded similar Alli nome trick which would not East got in with his heart Asturies of bedroom intimacies with Francis Noel Baker (Labour)' effort at the third trick, he returned WAC dicers and a few frauleins have been detained for. two through Field-Marshal Montances-such, for example, as Bri come without conscious gomery and the controversial į tain hopes to conclude with on your part. columns of Pravda it is also idle France. What seems to have I speculate. What is now re-aroused disquiet in Moscow is the levant is to observe that with the fact that Mr. Bevin did not men- Pirritation removed, the Soviet tion the Anglo-Savier Alliance Ginterment attaches the same specifically in his broadcast. He meaning and the'
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D. 107 G 2 crument, The Alliance has years duration to 50 years, with C. 9.65 existed since 1942, and will out arousing any reply froni Morg cxist, unless it be revised, un-cow except occasional ironical til 1902; nor has there been any comments. Marshal Stilin in his suggestion on the British side of latest, most cordial message. re abrogating it. Some of its articles taarks that if one, is to speak have been satisfactorily fulfilled seriously of such air extension by the successful end of the war, then, before extending this Treaty vulnerable.) Others may cease to be relevant it is necessary to change it, freeing
South
West with the development, of the Unit-it from ille reservations which 1 H Pass. el Nations organisation, and were weaken it." This Mr Bevin has
4H indeed explicitly designed in the already taken up and unce, asThat bidding sounded awful text to be so superseded. But the Generalisimo, says, tile ex- strong to West, as if the con- nothing in the Treaty nor in the change of messages leaves re room tract probably would be easy to plucrabic.), 25 Charter of the United Nations for misunderstandings, there seems make unless radical steps were has suggested any inconsistency good hope of amending the Treaty taken at once. As to whether of fine bidding of this misfit Russian officer al Ciessen, stated and inquiries are being made. between the two documents, and in a way to satisfy both parties, he was, fight or wrong, just hand?
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It was also during, this period tial and that the "only accusa that Peter first attracted the.ut-tion against these men was that tention of suspicious army offi- they attempted on Jan. 21, 1944, fals and was arrested. The ar to jajn the Allied forces in rest gave him an opportunity Franc demonstrate his ability to slip o
Mr. Mayhew said that the the handcuffs and to break out af men were being held in prison
one know yet where jail. No the hacksaw came from that saw and their trial was not likely ed the bars of the Frankfurt jai. to take place, for two or three In the next act of his dramatic months, If the result of the in- fantasy, Peter showed up in the quiries provided ground for in- uniform of a lieutenant-colonel of tervention "we will certainly the Russian air force. He wore
the
colicction of decorations which take the came up with ranged from a Stalin pin, a Ger- Spanish authorities, he said.
Mr. Mayhew: "Does not the man Paur-le-Mette, Turkish Star and Crescent, a Zeppelin, fact that they have been detain and on American
while '(Dealer: South, Neither alde. a fancy red and who's wings; ta cd for two years 11 months loop provide sufficient grounds for around a right shoulder. intervention?" Mr. Mayhew: Ils forged identify papers, It provides ground for anxiety What would be your version which he says he bought from a
that he was a Russian offer and
Reuter,