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MR. BEVIN'S BOMBSHELLS
Evatt Well Pleased With Visit To Tokyo
the Pacifle Allies.
By Arthur Morley
To those in touch with Paci-
TOO "COSTLY"
cussed; including the question of some old to Britain.
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Stocky, self-confident Herbert unable to nee eye to eye with Vere Evatt, Australian Minis¡ General MacArthur оп the ter for Foreign Affaira, landed question of building a strong Dr. Evatt will give delegates here today from the R.A.N. dea- post-war Jopen,
insight into America's Pacific troyer that brought him back
plans, as revealed to him by trom Tokyo.
From Tokyo also, it was an- General MacArthur. The Dr. Evatt beamed upon we-nounced that much of the Jn-world's press will then be ex- comers. His journey, he said, panese whaling schedule would cluded as the conference then bad been one of the most auc- have to be abandoned "because discusses the economic, atrate- conatul he had ever made. In of the high costs involved.” gio and social futurò of the talka with General MacArthur
From Canberra, co-inciding Pacific and Asia from the Bri- and high-ranking American po- with Dr. Evatt's return there, tish point of view. Hitical chiefs. ho had succeeded news was released that Austra Top-secret Information will in removing couses of friction lia was now prepared to sell be exchanged. Security police between America and the Bri- first-class wool to Japanese fac-guards were posted this week tiah Commonwealth in the Paci- torics (reversing the Govern-over the rooms at Parliament XAVIER-On Oth September,
fic. 1947, at St. Paul's Hospital,
ment's previous decision). Dr. House iл which conference Feeder co
The way was now clear, he Evatt announced bluntly Antonio Xavier.
that documents have been locked. claimed, for an enduring peace America and Australia bad Delegates will be given special settlement between Japan and reached agreement on the Paci- polled protection during their
fie Peace Settlement terms.
stay in Canberra. It was undoubtedly a triump fie polities, It seemed clear that for MacArthur and the policy BELOVED ENEMIES: the Doctor and the General hud of a atrong Japan. The ex- When Japan was planning ita arrived at some compromiseplanation of Australia's agreo- treacherous attack on Pearl understanding on several sub-ment is in the realm of world. Harbour, It sent to Washington causing rather than purely Pacife, poli-diplomat Saburo Kuruau to In the several days that have Jects that had been
friction. These included the ties. elapsed since Mr. Bevin's re-extent and speed with which vides an adequate clue.
One look at the map pro-engago Secretary of State Cor- markable speech at the conference General MacArthur was allow
dell Hull in pollte “peace talks" It had been hoped earlier by and to lull the American Gov. of the Trades Union Congress at ing Japanese industry to re Democratic statesmen that the ernment into a false sense of Southport, neither his friends nor build and Japanese industrial post-war China would grow to security. his critics, either in the United and therefore her potential the status of powerful but When the bombs fell on Pearl Kingdom or United States, have military atrength to grow. ctable and moderate power cap- Harbour, Kurusu was still talk- been slow to point out its short- Miner. but irritating, mat-able of withstanding expansion. ing penco. His name became comings and even inconsistencies. ters included the new Japanese ist pressures from any other the most-hated in the United Now most of the excitement has Pacific watera-which Austra- China, now in a condition of chery.
wholing expeditions to South Asintic mainland power: States as a synonym for trea. dird down, it is of chief impor a had hoped to keep for her near-anarchy, has tance to note that in the field of
Furthermore, Gen- fitted for this role. international cennomics, Mr.
eral MacArthur intended allow. The logical, although unoff- Bevin succeeded in throwing at ing the Japanese access to Paci- cial assumption, is that Japan least three novel ideas into inter fe phosphate deposits which has now been given China's role national discussion, all of them Canberra. felt should be given in the area where Asia meets | highly controversial, it is true, but instead to the Aliles.
the Pacific. none the less stimulating because) of that. In fact, the measure of their importance is the amount of comment and of criticism they at once evoked and the alacrity with which interested parties rushed to point out the complications and ifte difficulties. Either or both, an Empire ar a European Customs Union would indeed be a revolu- tion and a startling advance un the forms of cooperation. under discussion since the Ameri- can loan ended. The veteran Conservative-stareiman, Mr. L.S. Amery, who was Secretary of State for the Colonies in the Coalition Government, has said, in a letter to "The Times" that if Mr. Bevin is really thinking of Customs Unions in the strict technical sense a single tariff with internal free trade there
now
own use.
Now, it seemed, these mis-
understandings had been re- moved.
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner.
8-4
"They ain't just watchin' us work, foo-thoy're waitin'
to see if we're starting an apartment building!".
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities”
PROVES VALUE OF CARE
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proved un- This week, in Tokyo. 21-year- old Teru Kurusu, alim and
Those are just four samples of beautiful daughter of the same teachers of the value of care in In a big duplicate. The East-West Duplicate is the greatest of all the variegated bilding of this deat Kurusu announced her riage to US. Lieutenant of difference in what you decide to who went down just ono trick at mar close questions. The slightest top went to the boys at Table 1. Artillery Frank White. Ame- do may mean that you get a bot-
bot-2-Diamonds doubled, costing only rica, though General Mac-tom score instead of a top. Players 100 points. A tie for North-South Arthur, officially gave the mor- who have stuck to rubber bridge top come at Table 4, where the COUSINS CONFER: Pre-ringe its blessing.
are unlikely ever to learn the bidding was the same up to whe
to where parations are almost completed It was felt, snid Tokyo mes importance of considering the South elected to bid 2-Spades in Clues to the terms of agree. In Canberra for the British sages, that even world politics least little detall important. They stead of doubling diamonds, his family's get-together on August weren't as important as true by an occasional fling at duplicate, made it for 420 points, 120 for
can polish up their rubber games
pair got into a spade game and ment were soon forthcoming. eed that Mr. McMahon
From Tokyo, it was announ- 20. Oßcial reason is prelimi love.
whether they like it as well as tricks Ball, nary conference on the Japan-
plus 300 Rama kinus, Australian
rubber bridge or not, if they will North-South at Table 2 reached representative on ese Peace Settlement; but "at: the Allied Control Council in least
LEFT TURN: Up North of observe. the outcome of a deal at the same contract mero easily twenty" subjecta of Australia,' the Burmese Con- other tables and note the effect of because of East not bidding 1-No Tokyo, was. resigning imme- mutual interest will, in all stituent Assembly met at Ran- various optional moves on the Trump. diately. Ball had long been probability, be ralsed and dis. goon this week to plan their relative scores,
country's post-war life, The
: BAJ7 Assembly took a sharp left- turn.
China: Contrast Of North And South
Pelping, Sept. 9.
Pelping itself is peaceful but The contrast between South there is always the knowledge China and North China is almost that the Communists are only, a startling the difference between few miles away and although at a country at war and a country present there is no great food not the slightest prospect still neutral but fearing war.
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Note that both pairs fumbled the ball at Table 3, where West was not smart enough to try 2- Diamonds over the doubled 1-No Trump and got act two tricks for 300 points; the North-South pair accepted that in place of the 420 available for a spade game.
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Vishinsky Says:-
"Marshall Plan? No Such Thing!"
London, Sept. 9.
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Vishinsky, who arrived in London today on his way to New York for the United Nations meet- ing, told a press conference that Russla did not Intend to change her attitude towards the Mar- shall Plan. "Thore is no plan yet-at
Airports are closely guarded and obvious method of recovery By BILL LOGAN
by Nationallat troops and civilian PACIFIC WINGS: In Can- for the world." Mr. Amery countryside with
are made to park berra, the Pacific Aviation Con- therefore welcomes on behalf of jong lines of troops moving or less they contain government bring the South Seas Islands a
some places motor cars
outside barbed wire fences un- ference decided this week "all true Conservatives," Mr. getting ready to strike out at officials or a general. Bevin's "sturdy declaration of some nearby front,
up-to-date. New 4. Pass British independence in the
Air passengers in both Pelplog passenger airlines will be esta economic field based On tlie
and Taingtao riding into town blished linking the Solomons, mutual development of Empire
Lord Howe Island, New la busca were stopped and close- Hebrides. resources and on cooperation with
ly scrutinised by surly looking] Europe." Mr. Amery has been
Chinese soldiers in full equip ter for Civil Aviation, was the Lord Nathan, Britlah Minia. a lifelong protagonist of Com-
This coupled with close outstanding delegate. He an ment, monwealth unity (and of Euro-
passport checks and baggage pean solidarity too) and he now
searching not only in aorthernnounced: British planes would sees his views being increasingly
elties but In Shanghai as well: reduce the England-Australia
travelling time. 24 hours accepted, also does Lord
'Curfews аго in effect in research would put British Beaverbrook, who in this matter;
northern cities and guards are aviation ahead of American by has long been a voice crying, in
ordered to shoot it persona 1950 ... No cut in air fares the wilderness. A Customs
(From the files of the "China engaged in questionable activities over long-distance routes would -Union, Mr. Amery argues, in- | Mail"),
-a forelble reminder that war be made in the near future. volves federal government: that (We have received a letter is only a few miles away.
COLD CUTS: is not in sight for Europe; and which) complains of the Soldiers Trains between such cities as lan
The Austra] · bathing in the harbour In the the whole evolution of the last evenings, offending the delicacy of Peiping and Tientsin and Tient Wyatt Earp will enter Antarc
Polar Expedition ship half century in the Empire has those who pass in boats. In the fan and Mukden are wrecked or tien early next year with thirty been in the opposite direction of summer months many people pre- the tracks torn up with mono- lamb carcases dangling from least as far as we are concern- free cooperation between nations fer a row on the water to a ride tonous frequency and though the rigging, In such a climate, ed," he said. as nations. Expression of that or a walk in the sultry atmosphere crowded beyond belief there is research showed, this is the Other points made by Mr.
of the Queen's read, and it cor- always the realisation that each best cooperation is mutual preference. tainly is to be regretted that any train may encounter difficulties carrying ment.
way of preserving and Viabinsky were-Soviet pros It can be achieved by mutual re- one should be deprived of this before reaching Its destination.
pects at the forthcoming Unit- duction of duties and can equally, healthful recreation by the custom
The lamba will be shipped ed Nations meeting: "Any be applied to bulk purchase, trans- complained off.. While we acknow- casual visitors to Nanking and as the weather is cold enough hopes for success" The Iciq War seems far away to the alive and slaughtered as soon soldier getting off on the march port or finance. It involves no of the benefits derived from bath-Shanghai where loud squawks ledge this, we are fully sensible
de Janeiro Conference between surrender of a nation's, pontroling, and as the Soldiery, cannot are rising from the government's WARM WELCOME: It was American nations: The ques over its economic structure yet afford the to to attend to it, it closed night clubs at 11 p.m. that Princess
the comfort of a bathroom austerity programme which revealed by Canberra sources tion is bound up with the whole told the war
A prosecution witness today can achieve substantially the same
and a
tribunal Elizabeth and scope of defence polley pur- hearing the case against end of mutual stimulation and would be hard to deprive them of and the imposition of other Philip Mountbatten will visit sued by the American countries 1.G. Farben, cartel that at the expansion over the whole group supplied by nature.
the magnificent bath bountifully hardships."
Australia with the King and headed by the United States. time Farben Evidently in speaking of Customs
Further contrast. Is seen in the Queen, according to
waa cooperating We do not know
present When one speaks of defence it with, the Nazta war programme, the precise Unions, Mr. Bevin, as is his locality selected by the milltary Kreat amount of things offered plans,. In early 1949.
is of interest to know against no other country in the world' for sale in Shanghai stores and wont, was looking a long way for this purpose, but there are an
whom one is defending one-was arming beyond its peace- abundance of quiet neoks ahead, in the hope of raising the the bay where they can bathe sidewalks-luxuries supposedly the Royal Family next year, but ed, and that is why it is possi-
about by hawkers sprawling over the The Dominion had expected self. This is not clearly atat me standards. siglies of present endeavours. His without offending anyone; places honed and which are usually conditions in the United King- ble to think in different ways other bombshell-the suggestion where boats with idlers on board expensive, Only Tientsin, where, dom made. the trip, so soon, about this."
Dr. Hans Wagner, member of about America's gold-was an do not require to visit, and the the Marines recently evacuated undesirable from Their Majer-
Anglo-Russian trade negotia that maintained close relations the Halson branch of: Farben equally imaginative contribution knowledge that a certain retired the last dozen is leaving this ties point of view to world economics. Mr. Bevin place has been chosen as a bath week-can black market supplites.
tions; "We have made. public with the Nazl high command. Ing ground will of itself keep be seen in good
our position on this matter." cat hardly have meant that the visitors at a distance.
numbers ind | world at the moment desperately If the Soldiers are in the habit these infinitely less than -in needs gold above all things; but of bathing where they must of Shanghat,
the gold lying idle for so long at who seek health on the water, a lights are off frequently in most necessity give offence to those Northern cities are darkor-
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Disapproval question. I am more intorest-
I.G. Farben On Trial
Nuremberg, Sept. 9.
crimca
the
Russian brides of Britons: long before war was thought of, "I am Uttle interested in this explained in detail the extent of
cooperation between the two. Londen, Sept. 9. ed in the 150,000 Soviet citizens | Farben organized a vast air, Fort Knox is the concrete sign representation in the proper quar cities-colder with less coal British political representative who are not yet released."
Mr. Bevin instructed the in the British Zone of Germany, raid precaution system and even and symbol of unbalance and ter will no doubt correct
published A book on the subject. instability in world trade
the supplies and acem like villages in Soila, Sterndale Bennett, not Reuter. to abuse; but we dareesy the good after 9 o'clock at night. which American policies in the one of the men will induce them fear of a food shortage is always of Bulgaria's National Day.
The to attend the celebration today
Under cross-examination by Cairo, Sept. 9., counsel for the chiot defendant,- years of peace-before and since to scok a more included spot.
preyalent. A the warhave so gravely con-
The British Government want- Arriving at Calro today on Carl Krauch, Wagner acknow- tributed. It is there that "Canton will leave this port for gloomy, dying
The P. & D. B. N. Co's steamer Une gets an impression of ed to underline its views on the the Roms-Cairo leg of their ledged that the Halson office, cities with no death sentence on Nikola Petkov round the world fight, Clifford known as the "Vermittlungsstelle healthy corrective is demanded Canton direct, Three Hours after hustle and bustle like in Shang and disbandment of the Bul- Evans and George Truman said W, was "practically agrified and without a doubt that was the delivery of the Overland Afatthal and the people are acutely garian Agrarian Union-United; they took 12 hours to the minute post office" for the LG. Farben. what was in Mr. Bevin's mind..
for the trip.United Pross."
aware of the war-United Press Prom
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