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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1947.
45-NATION CONFERENCE ON
AUSTERITY NOTE
London, Sept. 11. Public dinners in Britain were limited to 100 guests by a Government "Save Dollars" order announced today.
Licences for a bigger ban quet would be given when reasonable proportion of over. acan visitors
were present, *particularly_tchen it meant boasting Britain's export trade, the Ministry of Food announced.
The restrictions would also` be raised for dinnere in con- nection with international con- ferences-Reuter,
LIFELINE SAGGING BADLY
DOLLAR SHORTAGE
London, Sept. 11.
More than 300 experts on high finance today crowded into the central ball of the Institute of Civil Engineers in a quiet back street off Whitehall for formal opening by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton, of the second annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Internation- al Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Seated at a horseshoe table beneath two blazing
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chandeliers and a giant roof painting of "Bri- tannia prostrate," the delegates unanimously approved a joint 24-point agenda which, des- pite its varied character, is almost sure to re- solve itself into a 15-day 45-nation discussion on the great dollar shortage.
Both the agenda for the Quoting from the roport of Board of Governors of the the International Monetary Bank and the Governors of Fund, which will be submitted the Fund includes the Indian to the conference tomorrow, Independence (Internationa) | Mr. Dalton Bald: Agreements) Order, 1947.
"The world in confronted with seriously unbalanced
stan-
It was explained Londen trade, with an urgent problem tonight that the Indian Gov- of financing international pay- ernor of the two institutions menta, and with several short- had drawn attention to India's agen of goods for reconstruc- independence and the partition tion and even for maintaining Into the Dominions of India minimum
consumption and Pakistan.
darde in many countries. other goods in being severely "The consumption of food and restricted, and, in general, held considerably below the prewar} level.
Hong Kong Don't Copy!
Canberra, Sept. 11.
0176
A now method of making rain by spraying a prepara- tion of calcium chlorido suitably clouda in to be triod by the Australian Council for Scientific Research.
Successful experiments have already been carried out in Australia with dry ice, but it is believed that the new pre- paration will be far more effective and will cause rain to fall over a wider range of cloud types.-Neuter,
Parliament's
The matter was thus put on the agenda so that the Bank and Fund could reglater formal recognition of this fact. London, Sept. 11. Britain's Mediterranean, the Prime Minister, Mr.. Cle- Far East, deficiencies in con- Mr. Dalton read a letter from "In most of Europe and the lifeline
running from ment Attlee, in which he ex-sumption and housing have al- Gibraltar through Malta pressed his best wishes for the ready endangered the health and Cyprus to Palestine auccess of the institution and of the people and impaired the SSIO
and the Suez Canal, is sagging badly at the castern end, says the "New York Times" cor-
respondent in London.
If Palestine goes, as appears likely, and with what is left of Egypt going fast, new British bases must be found..
British East Africa has been chosen, particularly Kenya, with advance bases in the Sulan and British Somaliland, and still more advanced posts in Trans- jordan and Iraq.
The line would be based on airports built by the United States and ploneered by Pan American Airways during the war at Bathurst, Boloma, Accra on the Gold Coast, Maiduguri in Nigeria and at Khartoum in the Sudan-Reuter.
position could only be solved said that the world economic
by international cooperation.
The entire proceedings, which occupied only 25 minutes, were marked by a complete absence of formality,
As they adjourned to split into committees to begin their deliberations behind
closed doors, the delegates refused to atate whether they felt pessi- mistic or optimistic.
The leader of the Indian delegation, Mr. N. Sundaresan, typfiled this reticendo by de- claring:
at all.
❤1 can Ray nothing Don't you know we are sworn to secrecy?"
"Events have overrun all our calculations.
"Particularly in the last few months, there has been a very marked and rapid worsening in the economic position and prospects of almost all the countries represented here."
efficiency of labour."
and
To China
Mr. Dalton recalled that since the first annual meeting of the two institutions, six new members Australia, Italy, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
London, Sept. 11. According to present arrange- Venczucia had joined the two ments, the members of the Bri- institutions and expressed the tish Parliamentary Mission to hope that, before long, a num-China, will leave Britain at the ber of other countries would end of this month, and are ex- become members,
"The magnitude of the task fore October 10.
pected to arrive in Nanking be. of recdnstruction was for greater than was foreseen in Ammon, the other members be The Mission is headed by Lord 1945 and 1946 when most of ing Lord Amulree, Mr. Frank the credits were made avail MeLeavy, Mr. James Harrison,
"Moreover, the sharp ise in Martin Lindasy.
Mr. Wilfrid Roberts and Mr. prices had reduced the value of the credits in the acquiring of importa.".
able.
they will be the guests of tho During their stay in Chian
Chinese Government. In a re- cent announcement, Dr. Wang expressed unqualified approval Shih-chich, Foreign Minister,
There is the possibility, how- ever, that Libya might replace Egypt and Paleating to bolster up the Mediterranean position. Opening the second meeting But it is too uncertain and as a of the Boarda of the Governors Grave Danger second line the British have of the International Bank and decided to develop British East International Monetary Fund, complete and there was a grave Reconstruction was far from Africa and extend the line of Mr. Dalton, telling the asscm- danger that the reconstruction of the British proposal to send a air hases westward across the bled experts that they were effort of a number of countries Parliamentary Mission to China Sudan to Nigeria and the Gold now facing "a grave new chal- would soon Coast,
receive a lenge," said:
serious this autumn, and recalled that setback because of the lack of in 1942 a British Parliamentary means to continue essential im- Mlesion paid a visit to China, ports, Mr. Dalton said.
adding that it "made an exten- the completion of reconstruc- tributed greatly to the streng- This would not only delay elve tour of the country, and con- tion and endanger the progress thening of already made, but would also between our two
friendly relations postpone
countries in Indefinitely the war time." achievement of a strong and During a recent discussion on healthy world economy.
the forthcoming Mission, Lord Quoting next from the Inter- Ammon was quoted as saying national Bank report which that it was the British desire to also will be submitted to the see a peaceful and united China. conference tomorrow, Mr. Dal- a view that was also expressed tun said:
in the House of Lords debate "WC now repeat that the on China at the beginning of the problem is deeper and more year, and more recently by the Aicult than was envisaged at British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bretton Woods,
Bevin, in the Foreign Affairs "There also has been, as a debate in the House of Com- reault of unsettled political mons. conditions, - an
CHINESE COMMUNISTS NOT OBDURATE
Pelping, Sept. 12. After two months' arduous travel, mostly afoot and on muleback, Jack Dodds, 25-year-old Canadian who was with the Communists, then retreated from Yenan, in March, arrived in Pelping with the "purely personal impression" that the Reds would be willing to reopen peace negotiations if Nanking offered "favourable, Dodds, however, emphasised to the Associated Press that the morale of the Communists was high and said that he had never heard any of them even mention the possibility of a Red defeat.
terms."
uneconomic Although no set Itinerary has diversion of labour to continue as yet been made public, it in the maintenance of large arm known that it is the Mission's. ed forces and to military pro wish to ace as much of China duction, necessary to them."-Reuter.
supply as possible during their month's
stay.
Govt. Changes
Possible
London, Sept. 11,
Parliament resumes on October 20 was admit- ted by informed London quarters today. It Z was thought that they would affect some of the less spotlighted members of the adminis tration, Reuters political correspondent writes. with the names in particular of Speculation has been busy
Dodds, who belongs to the ing as Allies of the Nation- Friends
Service Unit (a alists. Several times he was The possibility of Government changes before Quaker organization which mistaken for an American and operates in both Nationalist. heard the villagers speculate as and Communist territory) ser- to whether or not he was a ved as a laboratory technician prisoner of war. with the International Peace Dodds said that he left Shen- Hospital which was transferreds to return to Canada to study from Yonan ten days before medicine but six other foreign- the Nationalista took the city, era were still working with the has been moved six more times International Peace Hospital the Minister without Portfolie, since then, and was split into Frank Milen, mechanic, of Mr. Arthur Greenwood; the four sections,
Salem, Oregon; Margaret Stan- Minister of Fuel and Power, Mr. Dodda, who comes from ley, nurse, of Oskaloosa, Emanuel Shinwell; and the De Toronto, worked with the first Iowa; Doctors Douglas Clifford, zence Minister, Mr. A. V. Alexan. section of the hospital situat- of Ford, Now Zealand and der. ed (ho anid) "somewhere in Peter Baley, of London; and Shenal, west of the Yellow Ri- Mr. and Mrs. Eric Hughes, of
More Austerity ver." He refused to divulge London.
The political world expects the exact location.
He was carrying with him some top-lovel Cabinet reshuffles Dodds was escorted by a 50- the first letters to their fami-to take place possibly after the year-old interpreter from Shen-lies since last March-Associ-conclusion of the Big Four For. s to Communist Rellof Hqs. infated Press, southern Hopel, from which
point he completed his journey
to the Nationalist lines and Pelping in an UNRRA truck
Ho
Neptune Let
' wora. Communist-made Truman. Off
clothing and shoes...
Aboard USS Missouri."
Royal Wedding Gets O.K.
Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 11, The local courts today con- eign Ministera Conference infirmed the legality of the mar London In November,
riago of ex-king Carol of The crux of a week of economie Rumania to Magda Lupescu id crisis moves in Britain will come a bedside ceremony here on July tomorrow with a declaration by 5. the President of the Board of The ceremony took place at| Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, of a Copacabanca. Hotel Ho said that as each Com-
when new productive drive and munist area
an Madame Lupescu was seriously was "essentially
even more austere period of living ill and physicians sald she might an autonomous, unit, he was
Sept. 11...
for the British peoplo, Reuters delayed for days on end-wait Truman off easy today but
King Neptune let President politien-correspondende die within 24 hours. ing for clearance from one BCC gave the Presidential ageistant, day that Sir Stafford's 4,000-word ve ilaute ceremony in a hotel Authoritative quarters sald to. The validity of the dramatic tion to the next, but otherwise John R. Steelman, and others speech-to be made to a gather apartment was questioned by the he expèrfenced no difficulties
the full treatment, including ing of 2,000 employers and em Brazilian authorities, who in during the journey.
Anti-Americanism .
mustard massages, doses of ployed in London-will contain a sisted on further proof that both quinine, dunking in the pool, dramatic upgrading of British ex- the ex-King. Anti-American feeling la'the electric shocks and a sound port targets and the announce. Lupeneu were, in fact, divorced. and Madanie Communist areas, he said, was padding by aallora swinging ment of the compulsory direction strong and widespread, with canvas clubs.
of labour in certain industries-- posters in every village berat Bearded old Neptunus Rex Reuter. ing America for her "Import-panood out bring justice as alistle polley" and ald to President Trumon and some Chiang Kai-shek. Many vil- 1,500 other pollywage" were and daughter Margaret had to from toukaemia, a blood diagno lagera, in the Communist terri converted into "shellbacks" by sing "Anchors Aweigh"!, as rallied after the ceremony and, tory seemed to be leve that the crossing the Equator. The part of the traditional hasing by July, 18, was definitely re- Americans were actually right President had to make a speech ceremonies United Freas, ported out of danger)-Router,
The marriage, it was under. afood, could be legal only if the brida did not recover. (Madame Lupescu, who was suffering
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