THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1947.
MEETING WORLD CRISIS THREAT Runaway
Forecasts Of Extraordinary Action By U.S.
Creeping Economic
Paralysis
Washington, May 11. The Washington, Star today ternied Under-Secre- tary of State Dean Acheson's proposals for the restoration of world economy a "positive Am- erican programme to cope with a world situa- tion threatening to develop into a crisis of the most dangerous kind." ***The trouble is both poll- tival and eronomie. If is to be dealt with adequately. the United States will have to take extraordinary action.
to make historic decisions afong this Hoe in the months imme- dintely nhend.
"The fateful question in whe- ther we will make them wisely and
time." Anaociated Press,
on
"Some Informed observers Buggeat we may find it neces- gary within a matter of months
New Loan? to launch a peacetime version of lend-lease.
London, May 11. Achesop doen
The weekly "News of the not go that far. He does make World" sald today that
clear, however, that our pre-speech of U.S. Undersecretary jected aid 10 Grrere and Turkey is likely to be but a small begin wing."
Smash-Up, Unless
The Star said lack of action to help Europe and Asia to re- cover from the war would cause "creeping reorumic paralysis
That in turn would intensify social and political unrest, and riente ao atmosphere runrtue tive to further the advance of sutalitarianism "chielly o The Communist brand."
the
Acheson in revived discus- alon in the British Cabinet of the possibility of seeking a new British tonn from the United States,
of State Dean Cleveland has
t
RED MINISTER SACKED
Moscow, May 10,
1. Kuznetsov, Soviet De- put Minister of Public Health, has been dismissed for "incompetence," it officially laten today,
The jourunt "Medient Worker" stated that Kuznet ao had been remored from the
posts of Deputy Minister of Public Health and Chief Sanitary Inspector "because he could not cope with the Lanks allotted to him."
The post have been given to tico naw officials-Reuter.
Molotov's Reply To Marshall
No Agreement Yet On Palestine Issue
L.M.S. Engine
Perth, May 10.
After a head-on colli-
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Building.
Lake Success, May 11. The United Nations sub-committee failed to agree on proposed orders for a committee which will investigate Palestine this şummer. The issue now goes back to the 11-member political com- mittee of the special United Nations assembly, Four alternate proposals on the point of requiring the committee of inquiry to study a proposal
The driver and fireman of
Badges admitting to Members Enclosure will NOT be on dale the other ongine, which
at the RACE COURSE. of an immediate independent Palestine made working in the goods yard,
The Treasurers' Compradore Office will close each day at 11 up the largest obstacle to agreement.
were injured. The driver, An- and the Secretary's Uffice at 11.45 nm. Both These will be voted on by the Saturday but did not act on that drew Mollison, of Forfar, un-
Offices at 19 (loor, Exchange full committee which will re-proposal" at the three-hour sub- derwent an
A limited number of tifins will be obtainable at the Club ceive the report on Monday.
committee meeting during the tion.
emergency opera- House, provided they are ordered in advanced from the No. 1 Boy The issue of independence afternoon.
The runaway engine had been
(A cl. 27818). involves proposals that the The United States and Rus- left in a siding ready for a re- PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.
NU CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S committee shall report to the sia are said to be standing on turn trip to Aberdeen. Rail- next regular session of the as- their disagreement on the vital way workers later saw it thun-
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE, sembly in September and precaders for the committee of intering towards Perth general including tax or ati persons inexiding ladies, and is payable at the posals on solving the Palestinquiry but membern of the secre- sintion at 60 miles an hour. Itate. problem including A
proposal tariat anid the draft of the pro- was so badly damaged in the. for establishing Holy Land in- pora] resolution involved four collision that it had to be eut the perience without delay.
Reparate proposals Qu that to pieces for removal. point. P.I. Proposal
A large piece of metal from The political committee turn-one of the engines catapulted the Philippines idea and at through the roof of the sta least half a dozen others over tion and landed on the to the sub-committee to try to Glasgow platform, nearly 100 draft a romplete resolution for yards from the spot where the the fal committee.
collision occurred.-Reuter. Agreed portions and the alternative ideas will be taken up o Monday. Associated
London, May 11. The Philippinex proposed an enst the text
Moscow radio today broad-interim government for Pales reply to Goneent Marshall (U.S.
of M. Molotov's time at the committee meeting Secretary of State) regarding Kores. Th Soviet Commissar agreed to the parti cipation of
Democratic
Pore
"Great significance is attach- by the British government the aperch made by Mr. Acheson, in which he advocated American dollar assistance for Dir world not as charity but as common sense and good bust Bess," the paper's juditical car Analyzing The Acheson plan.respondent wrote. The Star commented. "These for. reaching proposals are all expen is now considering the advisa.sional government, to ente But in mentioningbility
discussion Them Arneson confirmed warn-
with Molotov said Russia is remily Washington on the possibility to accept the ings from other quarters that of another American loan to the conditions for
amendments 10 there will be a drally smash the Uritish.
resumption There is good rea of ecotiations up overseas unless the United son to believe that Washington Marshall and "I hope, therefore, proposed by States takes has prevrative with
favourably to that there no longer exist any Britain
reasons MRY
DEPANAPES.
Bikini Ships
The Cabinet, i understand parties in the burer Still Unsafe
Praet very *14* approach "Signs indicate we shall have make."--Associated Press,
DOLLAR SHORTAGE
Washington, May 10.
Press.
Indian Proposal
Lake Success, May 10, The Indian delegation urged
main
Greece Not Clear
Athens, May 10.
that the issue of independence Taaldarls today gave United States Foreign Minister Constantin
latt
of
included in the terma
Ambasander Lincoln MacVeigh a reference for
the fact-finding Greek note asking "clarification" commission when the Unitri Nations
on American Political Committeo
insistence upen a genuine amnesty between Greece's warring fnctions.
some
among Greeks, since some quar.
Washington. May 11. Ten months after the Bikini atom bomb tests. the target ships are still "unsafe for per- Department announced today. manent occupancy," the Navy
Most of the big ships which for postponing the work of the Commission."
survived the blasts will be tow General Marshult, in a note the west const
ed without crews to Hawaii and delivered to Moscow on May 2.
of the United met today. States for decontamination agreed to regonvene the joint
The United States vigorously American-Soviet Commision on
He met with MacVeigh today studies this summer.
opposed this suggestion-which to receive the answer. Korea on May 20 provided the
Lingering radioactive effects was also strongly A forecast that the United States Administration
of the alumic
pressed Soviets abandoned their posi- forced a complete revision by M. Gromyko, because it would amnesty inet
bombs havengain by the
The American proposal for in. Soviet delegate, ternutional supervision of such un would have to reinstitute Lend-Lease "in one
tion that only pro-Communist
the form or another"
Navy of
resistance ship design, amount to placing a "moral im- factions could participate in the within the next twelve months, was made today by the "Washington
Korean provisional government,
navigation and fighting ideas,
perative" on the cummlsion. the announcement said. Molotov listed the points C-
All Post" columnist, Walter Lippman, who is
tablished in the Soviet
After hearing seven speakers the exposed positions on decks known to reflect and even foreshadow
In- State
mander's letter of October 26. will be removed and ships will favour of including the
issue Department policy.
be shaped like
und 1946. as basis for
Ave resumption Warning of a possible "at-]
against, the Political Committee of the Commision's work. He marine-Reuter.
appointed a sub-committee astrophic
In a statement, he said his ex- said he is ready to ureept the collapse of the
lo European standard of living". had reinforced his belief that posed by the American
perience in political negotiations mentioned amendments as pro-
try to produce an ogreed Mr. Lippman declared; "he the enduring
of all proposals submitted next few months,
far so that a vate might harmony mander. These were, in effect,į certainly within twelve months, the Unit
risis heavily
taken as early as possible. (222 economic the same as those proposed by ed States will have to establish,
#tability. Goals and services General Marahali United:
Committee, then adjourned Jat some form; or other,
prakte mast Clove
til Monday-Reuter. through Press. Lend- Lense at the rate of not
domestic and International trade than U.S.$5,000,000,000 annual-
channel, In no other way can
political
ly for several years to come." ww create un economic and
In-
Mr. Lippman described Un- derareretary of State Acheson's stability is spread." speech at Cleveland two days
Suvial environment free from
in which political
Referring to the Current
ago us the first step by the ad-negotiations in Geneva to ministration
in anotineing
GOD FOUND IN DOCKS
cont-
com-
11
Acre Prison Break
big sub-dependence
Jerusalem. May TT Four of the 167 Arabs who escaped from Aere prison on Sunday gave themselyss up to- night after the Palestine Gov-
had offered not ernment
to prosecute those who surrenders el by May 16.
London, May 10.
The Government atniement re- An image of Vishau, the In- such a programme tu the Amand create a rade of good em-ip a shed in the Surrey
ve exCESHİYE trade barriersdian Ged, which
added that after May 16 lny unnoticed erican public.
escaped Arab and Jewish pri Com- dact for international trade re-acial Docks for years,
Honers still at large would be laus treated·
as absconded offen- the been presented to the
British
lis forecast confirms the batons, he said that was lef widely held in responsible as part of American for Museum. quarter here that u drastic worldwide shortage of dollars is the Genesa
ign policy and that success of The Image is belleved to have Impending.
conference would come from Bengal temple. have divert relation to the but no one seems to know how success of the American peace it came to be in the docks. efforts. --United Press.
Renter.
with
Scraping The Bottom This belief is rampled the conviction that unless there is foreign aid programme far more extensive than the funds for Greece, Turkey and Korea
30
far envisaged, disastrous shortages will follow in many catntries from the lack money. It is noted that ́ deltar shortages are becoming eviden
of
not only in Britain and France, A
but also in satis formerly
thought prosperous, such
Sweden and Mexico.
as
Taken as a sure sign that the
countries are "scraping the
bottom of
Giving The
Berliners "Gen"
Berlin, May 11.
Soviet sponsored newspaper told Berliners to day they "would have been saved many sacri- fices" if the Western Allies had opened their "second front" sooner.
Hiller
ན
"Had a second front been set fore the opening 1044 landings in the barrel" to buy up in 1042 or at the latest 1943, France.) Kooda that only the
Uulted the States can provide, is the fact been ended much
war could have The paper asserted further that that Federal Reserve guli hold and the nation and the German by the Soviet Army before the more quickly the war already had been won Ings have increased recently people would have been saved "second front" was set up. by $160,000,000 in one week many sacrifices," sald the news. alone. Reuter,
"The Hitler army was not de. paper of the Soviet Rests On Economics
sponsored fented by an overpowering force Socialist Unity Party, the Neues ron: the East and the West. The Washington May, 10.
Deutschland, in an article mark-historie truth is that The Secretary of State. Gening the Russian VE Day.
the war in the fight against the eral George Marshall, said to-
Soviet army," the paper sald. day that the creation of lasting second front" refer to the in-leng because of "the English im. (The Russians speaking of a It added that the war lasted so -peace and elimination of vasion across the English Chan- perialists led by political Instability dependa net. Actually, the Western Allies enll who tried to bring other non- Winston Chur- the establishment
of were busy with fronts in North Lanti-fascist alms into the war."-
Africa, Italy and the Pacifle be-Associated Press.
upon
world economic stability.
"JANE”
MY LUCK'S IN!-
THERE'S ERIC, OUTSIDE
HIS FLAT!-ILL STROLL PAST HIM...
{NO GOOD!~| MUST.
HULLO!-RE HASN'T. NOTICED ME!-DEFTER WALK BACK AND
DROP MY
HANKY!
GET ENTANGLED LON FRITZ'S LEAD-
AND QUICKLYE
Hitler lost
ders.
The Government said that this offer was being made be- cruse many of the prisoners, who left the prison when was being attacked, "did from fear of injury by explo- sions or fire rather than Intention to escape."-Reuter.
Tanganyika Nazis Back
it
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lers insisted upon continuation of the prosent "dynamic" polley of wiping nut the guerilla bands.
American
sources said
they were aware that enforcement of a general amnesty would
uffect
Greek army morale while the of text fensive was in progress. The Gov. Sternment newspaper Vradynt re- heported some officers were threat The fening to "strike" if the amnesty
came before the army could com plete its offensive.-United Press.
Management Of D.Ps. In Germany
(From A Special Correspondent)
Berlin, May 11. The future management of displaced persons in Germany is being hotly debated here, follow- ing the visit to Germany of Mr. Altmeyer, Secretary-General of the International Refu- gees Organisation, (LR.O.).
Mr. Altmeyer, arriving from, any L.RO. headquarters in Geneva. has claimed complete control lover displaced persons in Ger. many when UNRRA winds up operations in June.
Sholto
Air Marahınl Sir Douglas and General Lucius Clay however both take the firm view that as Zone Commanders they Former German realdents of and Jurisdiction within their zones cannot abandon administration
Dar Es Salaam, May 11.
Churchill's Medaille Militaire
Paris, May 10. Winston Churchill today re
Tanganyika, who had been in- of Germany to an international ceived France's highest military
or
re-
body.
honour, the Medalle Militaire,
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Control Commission, and ten by In a colourful ceremony, the
French Premier praised the Sugar The British Military S. E. du Tolt of the British ment wishes to take over con.
Govern- British wartime Prime Minister Flour Legion northern branch
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Premier Ramadier than kissed tion," Placards of protest have been posted in the town of Arusha.of present crime in Germany is Minister on both cheeks while It is estimated that 80 percent the beaming former Prime Associated Press.
committed by displaced persons. the crowd standing on
The question of supremacy over courtyard cheered "Vivo Chur- the DPs in Germany has been chill"United Press. referred back to the British and American Governments by the zone commanders.
FRITZ!-YOU BAD DOG!-WHAT
ARE YOU DOING?
Corvettės For China Coast
Sydney, May. 10. The representative of a Chin ese shipping firm has arrived in Sydney by air to accept delivery
|of no Australlan/built corvettes.
FRENCH VISIT
TO BRITAIN
the
Cherbourg, May 11. Municipal authorities of the Channel port of Cherbourg will roturn last month's visit of Ply- mouth officials of May 17, 18 and 19.
The Cherbourg representa- tives will visit Torquay and the Plymouth region and dedicato street in the English port.~. Andociated Press.
Ile is Captain Thomas H. Wast, were bought from the Commen. wht represents 'Ta Hing Co., Ltd,wealth Government.
He travelled by Qaritas. Lanceë
They will be used to carry pas. trin plano from Hong Kong sengers and cargo along the China Corvettes Bathurst and Bendigo coast. Our Own Correspondent.
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