THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1947.
LABOUR USING SOFT PEDAL Nationalisation Programme Postponed
Cabinet Talks On Thousands
Economic Blockade
Legislation
London, Oct. 13.
Demanded The legislative programme for the Parliamentary
New York, 14. Senator Brien Mc- Mahon, ranking member of the joint Congression- al committee on atomic
declared in energy,
a speech today that the
session opening on Oct. 24 will be drafted to- morrow at a meeting of the Cabinet. While the interim budget that the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton, has drawn up as a check upon inflationary trends will be the chief subject for consideration, there are n number of other items that will be gone over carefully by the Ministers,
to
it is a foregone conclusion that | United States will make the Government will decide decisions in the next! "»oth pedal" the nationalisation
In the
year "which will deter- progress approaching "NO CIGARS
Acasion.
and for
mine the kind of world
There is an even chance that that will exist for the nationalison of the gas in- next two centuries.
dustry will be presented to the "The United States might save House of Commons, but the Western Europe and Asla for taking over of the iron freedom only to lose it in a few steel industry, scheduled years in a third and stud war the same session, has been push. inless, ways and means are founded into the background. to get weapons of mass destruc- The Labour Party tion under control" Senator Me Mahon warned,
He called for enforcement of law prohibiting the shipment of certain essenting machinery atomic production martside the United States.
for
the
Senator McMahon said United States must undoubtedly consider the advisability of im- posing an economie blockade to innich Russia's fron curtain, but recalled: "We shipped off and serap to the Japanese-and got it lack with interest explosively compounded."-United Fress,
Attack On A New Front
Lake Success, Oct. 14. Soviet delegate A.
considera
that it had fought its chief hot- te to put off nationallantion of steel at the Trades Union Con- gress in Southport last month when it won support of that all- | powerful Labur body for a de»: lay on the atel programme,
With this endorsement, the Cabinet will have few qualms about postponement,
Colonies
The Labour Government's a- fonalisation time.table has been i upact by the present crisis, and, the moderates in the Cabinet have insisted that efforts take over now such a major and diversified industry will retard] rather than promote the "re-. cover drive,"
to
The Prime Minister, Mr. Arulialan Attlee, is saki to favour to the UNO today that "there view.
this
is danger that the International,
At least three major measures,
Bank and Fund will become beatles the budget, are consider branches of Wall Street," anded certain to be earmarked for
"carry out discrimination against prompt attention.
certain nations.**
One of the earliest mensures i
FOR MR. CHURCHILL"
If*inston
Chur-
London, Oct. 14. Lord Chorley, a Labourite. proposed that chill's tigari, trade mark of the chain-smuking Kwartime Prime Minister, be taken Herny in punishment for his criticism of the Guerrnment,
"Mr. Churchill should ashamed of himerit for
has been saying re cently about
our leaders," said Lord Chorley as a Labour Party meeting today.
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the
"fle ought to be punished by having his cigars stopped for
two years Then, if he still dart not helner, the rigars should be stopped nitogether"-Associated Press,
Queue To
See Roses
Stockport, Oct. 14. Thousands queued today in 'a quarter-mile long line, stretching across a field and up. a hillside to see a crown of sea roses on an image of the Vir- gin Mary.
A chaplet of tea roses was placed on the image last May 4 und Father James Turner, par- ish priest of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, said the some chaplet is still there and fresh although other flowers placed in the church died within a week.
He intimated that 10,000 per. song had led through the churel, today to see the reported pheno- menon and said the crowd of the curious was almost as big as the previous day's.
Father Turner repented a pre vious assertion that the spectacle is above and beyond nature but added "I can't say it's a miracle" He said he had not yet sent message to His Holiness the Pope about the incident and its cumstances.-Associated Press,
EIRE STRIKE THREAT
cir.
EDITOR COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
ON LIBEL SUMMONS
Morecambe, Lancs., Oct. 13. Mr. James Caunt, 47-year-old editor, publisher and proprietor of the newspaper "Morecambe and "Heysham Visitor," was committed for trial at the next Lancashire Assizes after ap pearing before a magistrate's court here today on a summons of publishing seditious libel against the Jewish race in a recent article. When hearing of the summons opened today, pro- secuting counsel stated that he believed Mr. Caunt's article went to the limits prescribed by criminal law for mere controversy and "threatens to interfere with the King's peace." said that he wrote the article Caunt, who pleaded not guilty,
after aceing anti-British pro. paganda
“Gravest
States in a United newspaper of photographs of terrorista in Palestine, the British sergeants hanged by
not of
He declared that he did think Jewish expresalong horror at the Palestine outrages were genuine and agreed that his article was intended to be unpleasant to the Jewish com- munlly.
Threat" Possible
London, Oct. 13. Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, Britain's new Fuel Minister, in the first He declared, however, that he published speech since his ap- Aek not intend to tell non-pointment last week, said to- Jewish
people that violence day; **If in this winter the might be the only method the domestic consumer gora crazy Jews would understand.
and there is a runaway expan sion in the electricity demand, that is going to be the gravest threat that I can see to our whole national recovery."
"Plague"
to
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Prosecuting counsel read the court the article in which the alleged libellous statements oc- curred. It declared: "The Jews, indeed, are a plague on Britain, and unless they are put in their place by the will of the people, year, he said. If they failed
The gas and electricity ala- tions must have their minimum" of 13,000,000 tons of coal this
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Dublin. Oct. 14. Union leaders threatened to- day a strike of all the 10,000 Irish railway workers unicen
10 of the approaching the householder and to indus- demands for higher wages are British Jewry is suffering to domestic consumers would en- economic crisis,” and added: "If try. Any attempt to ration
met.-Associated Press.
Moscow Becoming Fantastical
London, Oct, 14.
lie and such a trend now Is to be Introduced is expreted to The Moscow radio last night broadcast what was "apparent" in the foreign polley of the United States.
be that which will give indepen- dence to Burma.
The British
described a a letter from Russian mothers The Russian charged, anong | A second measure of consider-
saying that the British were holding Soviet ather things, that the Interna- able Interest to those concerned
children in "slavery" in Germany and de- tional Bank is favouring Indonesians. He told the General resources within the Empire s
the with the development of natural! manding that the children be returned, Assembly Committee on Econo- the hill to develop the Colonies which last week announced that vestigating numes submitted in a Foreign Omes, British authorities were stilt in. mick, that Russia, although not as a source of raw materials.
four Russian-claimed children had formal Soviet demand for the re- been repatriated, commented that turn of children the Germans
took from Latvia in 1944,
The broadcast letter was credit
a member of the Bank or Pun,
ace the draft with those
Criminal Law
would like to agreements
iwo The Government has proposed: agencies sent back to the 18-nu-a £100,000,000 Government tion Eecnomie and Social Coun corporation
finance ell For revision.Associated supervise production in
colonies of rice, tenk and other similar products that are
Prean.
"TOO MUCH U.S.
CONTROL"
Berlin, Oct. 13.
to
and
the
Splitting The World
cd
Elena
n
day from the righteous wrath of tail nation-wide individual sur- British citizens, then, they have] vers and even then would give only themselves to blame for the Government no control
their passive inactivity.
over actual consumption. "Violence may be the only Mr. Galtakell made it clear way to bring them to a sense off that gas and electricity ration-
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their responsibility to the coun. ing for Britain had been "most When yon
carefully considered
by the
try in which they live."
The editorini also naked Government. If it had not readers to ostrnelse the Jewish been completely impracticable, community in every
possible it would have been instituted long ago. The alternative was saving-Reuter.
way.
The
sald
Denial following week, counsel, the paper published a Accond article stating: neither retract nor
week." for anything that appeared last apologise
WAS ARRESTED BY RUSSIANS
Hamburg. Oct. 13.
The mysterious disappear-
Replying to defence counsel, ante. Caunt denied that by the use of nephew
of
of
Rudolph
Wilsch, Hamburg's Lord
the words: "the will of the peo- Mayor, Herr Max Brauer, who to Zinaida Mozharova
and ple," he had meant to incite the vanished in the Russian Zone Rakhvalova, mothers of people to commit violence. two returned children. It called
early in September after visit. The case la being followed Ing the Leipzig Fair, has been upen British women to "demand closely by official political quar-solved, of your military authorities Inters in London and prominent Germany that all Soviet children counsel, are appearing on both chant from Kiel, was arrested Wilsch, a 41-year-old mer. Lake Succesă, Oct. 13.
....be returned without delay to aldes." Poland's Foreign Minister,
their country and their parents."
on Sept. 7.by. the Soylet secrot A bill calling for reform of M. Zygmunt
The letter repeated Moscow
The Jewish Hoard of Deputies, police on suspicion of espion- Modzielowski. press and radio allegations that which looks after the interests age, the State Press Office In
chlidren were held of Britain's Jewry, had obser- Hamburg disclosed.
In attempts to "slavery". It said that the chilvers present.-Reuter.
He was taken to gnol in Chemnitz, but has now been released without explanation-Reuter.
short supply here and through-i out the world.
the criminal law and for abolt-said today that he was "con-the Mr. Austin Albo, deputy pre tlon of flogging as a criminal cerned over the sident of the Governmental sub-punishment is understood to be split the world and Europe in-dren recently sent back to Russia commission of the British Con- ready for introduction, trol Commilegion of
to laolated and hostile camps." from Germany had been "brow- Germany. Flogging at present is usual- ald to be "quitting because of ly reserved for criminals
Speaking to the press before beaten," "frightened" and "taught
THE HIGHEST the growing American control," victed of robbery with violence. the Polish delegation at the even had forgotten the Russian con returning home after leading to hate everything Russian" and
Cairo, Oct. 14. left for London this morning A number of legislators
In the past 24-hour period. for a fortnight's slay.
haye United Nations General As
language. He has been known to have abolished for an experimental had had a long and detailed favourite game taught to Soviet Seven cases died in Cairo and
ulso advocated that hanging be sembly, he disclosed
"The two mothers write," the 112, the higheat one-day mark deaths from cholera rocketed to that he Moscow announcer said, "that the reached in the current epidemic. sale that he was "not likely to period. This will be put to be here after the end of
a talk with the United States; children....was the free vote of the House If
ploying War year." Reuter,
Secretary of State, Mr. George against the Russians.Associat. the arises. Reuter,
Marshall.
Hollywood Actor Boycotted
Budapest, Oct. 13.
Union employees of the Hungarian film industry decided today to boycott Clark Gable's Alms on the grounds that Gable was a leader of a Hollywood move to brand actor Charles
Chaplin as a Communist sympathiser.
The Hungarian Union voted boycott all other Amerlcas
"who are Fascists, or who take part
In the Imperialist movement in the
United States."
One of the main topics at the talks was the German problem. he said, adding that in Ger- many the differences between the Big Powers were being "artificially played, up" at a time when emphasis should be on seeking conciliation and re- Bolving the disagreements.~~~~ Reuter.
ed Press.
remainder in the Delto provinces.---United Press.
Moscow Dissection
Of U.S. Press
London, Oct. 13. Radio Moscow today dissected the American press 2,000 DYING A
for its listeners and charged it with playing a "special part in the warmongering campaign." MONTH
A commentary by Billbin, heard in Howard, McCormick, Patterson and London, Oct. 13.
London, serted that "newspaper fothers play. leading roles in thin Chaplin, who described himself at
Over 2,000 people a month the control of nonopoly circles.
trans and radio mations" were under chorus. This insignificant group" of actors recent press enference as "not a are dying in the Eastern Zone
Communist, but a peacemanger," is of Germany, either directly or papers and journals published in the the U.8.A. Total circulation of their person............holds in lis hands" some British subject, though he has directly from undernouriah- United States
"A present about half of all news. 50 per cent of all the periodicals of been resident in the United Statesment, Dr. Otto Frederick Carl trusts. In 25 of the largest cities of ice. for 17 years.
are combined into papers constitutes over 13.5 million Acclaimed as a
Dibelius, Bishop of the Pro- the
"Describing the role of the Ameri- anti-Fascist after production of the testant Church of Barlin, told the whole
country, three millionaires of wifch the Congressional commit "Great Dictator" seven years ago,
of the
can press trusts, Roy Howard states Reuter in London tonight.
pres Papers' fee an un-American activities har Chaplin was recently attacked
policies do not correspond to
with incomparable cynicism that they the summoned 40 actors, directors
Inl Dr. Dibelius in staying in people's interests bus follow, the per-custhing but merchants in 'news. writers Including Chaplin and Min Rankin, Mississippi Democrat, who de
Mi Cange by Representative John London for two days on his anal views and convictions of their The editor in chief of the Chicago Dorothy Parker to appear for quesmanded his deportation to Britain will meet representatives of under the influence of the most prise, in fact, their far from attrac way to New York, where hej The American press has fallen diplomatie, religious or political | Tribune states that his paper is not sloning some, time after the, cammalt for alleged pro-Russian scivieles in the Federal Council of Chur-reactionary and least responsible of sive actions are in accord with their Lee resumes its meetings on: Oct. 20. Hollywood:-Reuter,
Institucionit is a commercial enter- big business circles, Hearst, Scripps | words."—United Press.
Gable, the Trade Union declared has been a fender of the anti-Soviet campaign in Hollywood as a result
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NEGROES ACCUSE
Lake Success, Oct. 14. The National Association for the Advancement of Co- loured Peoples'a negro or ganisation claiming a member- ship of 1,500,000 in the United States-today submitted a document to the United Na- tions* charging: discrimination against negroes in the United States and suggesting the Economic and Social, Council might initiate studies and re- ports on the subject:""
In a 150-page report the NAACP summarised discrimi "nation" conditions in the Unit ed States, charging the Lulted Blator failed to practise what it proaches United Press
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