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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1947.
BYRNES BOOK SENSATION Inside Story Of War's Closest Secrets
Molotov's Bid For Hitler Bargain
New York, Oct. 14.
Ben-
| President Franklin D. Roosevelt was disillusioned over Russia's attitude toward post-war_co- operation and only an hour before he died Churchill sent a message advising Winston that "we must be firm,” James F. Byrnes dis- closes in his newly published memoirs. Roosevelt began to doubt Truman to "gag" Henry Wal- Russia's polloy after the Yalta | lace-then, Secretary of Com- conference, Byrnes saki and merce" "or clao --". particularly After receiviig re- More Sensations ports of how Andrel Wishinsky The following are some had set a puppet Governrcentsations from Mr. Byrnes' book: in Rumania in 1945 through an 1. United States argumenta ultimatum to King Michael for giving Russin n small voice which Involved a threat of Rua- in the Japanese treaty were pian force.
weakened by the fact that Mr. Byrnes wrote a formal letter to Generalissimo Stalin at Stalin's request, "requesting" the Rus- sians to enter the war against Japan. Mr. Byrnes staunchly "The President told me he defends all the accret Yalta had grave misgivings about the agreements on the Far future," of Soviet-American re-disclosing Intions, Byrnes says in his book, Roosevelt's
Byrnes, Secretary of State un- der Presklent Truman, was an adviser at Yalta,, and took full shorthand notes of the conversa tions.
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East, that President military advisera urged him to pay any price for| Then Churchill asked
for assurances that Russin would ndvlec about a speech he was enter the Japanese war. wheat to make in the Comntons. 2. Stalin #howed no Interesti The reply went back from in the atomic bomb when Preni- Warm Springs: **I would dent Truman explained it to him minimise the general Soviet pro- at Potadam, but he thinks Mr. biem as much as possible be Truman did not do a very good cause these problems, in
one job explaining through an inter- form or another, seem to arise preter. Admirn! William Leahy every day and most of them always thought the atomic pro-
Pilot's Escapade
Stockholm, Oct. 14. Lieutenant Torsten Ak- rell, Swedish
pliot who "kidnapped" ին fiancee from a mental home here and flew with her to Nor- way, will face an assault · charge when he is extradit- ed to Sweden, it was learn-y ed here today.
He will be accused of as-. Baulting a nurse at the mental home by striking her twice on the cheek, bumping her head on the 110or and removing from kor pocket the keys to the ward where his fiancee-was, Akrell's plane, it was re- ported, was forced down at Kongsber, in southern Nor- way,
by petrol shortage after A chase by Swedish fighters, The couple were later detained by the Nor- weglan police-Reuter.
New Hope For Heart Victims
Colombo, Oct. 14. New hopes are stimu-
Crown
Jewels Pass Unnoticed
an un-
London, Oct. 14. A plain
motor van passing unfioticed through congested city traffic with obtrusive police car es- cort today brought Bri-| tain's Crown jewels, worth £20,000,000, from the Crown jewellers to the historic Tower of London.
The jewels were taken from their traditional resting place overlooking the er Thames from within the grim walls of London's oldest fortress at the outbreak of the war. During the hostilities, they were kept in Windsor Castle and in 1945 trans- ferred to Messrs. Gerrards, the Crown Jewellers In London's West End.
Today, as the van stopped out. side Gerrards, two detectives Jumped down and stood guard. Below the ground, massive doors swung open and 20 boxes con- taining the Jewels were carried up and out to the waiting vehicle, one by one.
Five. armed detectives rode in the back of the van with the
straighten out....we must beject was Crazy and remained lated for the hundreds treasure and five travelled in the
Arm, however, and our course aceptical until the first one ex- thus far is correct.”
Good Advice
The message "bears all
the
carmarks of having been written
ploded.
of thousands of persons police car to the Tower-Reuter.
3, The United States should all over the world, es-
apply the "Truman Doctrine"
to Hungary immediately,
de pecially for
children, Juliana
mand that Russia release 500,000 suffering from one of the by the President himself," Japanese prisoners she la using
Byrnes said. "The advice is is as slave labourers and refuse worst forms of valvular Installed
it
of
good today as it was on the day to get out of Korea unt! the disease of the heart.
was written. It le fille to Soviet-trained Korean army of speculate on what the course of from 100,000 to 400,000 men in;
is disbanded. history would have been had Northern Korea President Roosevelt Ilved, but The United States should inalat
the that the Big Four Council these messages dispose of legend that our relations with Foreign Ministers have nothing the Soviet Union began to de to do with the Japanese - peace teriorate only after his death."treaty.
Byrnes points out that Run- sian-Allied cooperation reached
soon afterwards.
As Regent
A Ceylon doctor, already well-known here and abroad, read a paper at the meeting of the local branch of the British
The Hague, Oct. 14. and de- Crown Princess Juliana took Medical Association-
oath ns Regent of the Nether- monstrated
cases in which it lands in a short and sober cere- was shown that the puckered mony today, after which the Russia's Aims
and scarred valves of the heart. ancient Knights Hall resound- anded with shouts of "Long Live damaged by rheumatism 4. Settlement with Russia on
rheumatic fever. which ob- the Regent." Its high point at the Yalta con- Germany would be possible to
In ก clear voice, Princess férence, but began to declinemorrow If the United States struct the flow of blood within
Jullana rend the oath after would agree to give Russia Uss the heart can be softened and Prof, Kranenburg welcomed her thinned out by X-ray treat- in a short speech, in which he 10,000,000,000 in German re-
ment.
volced the sincere wish of Parlia. His colleagues who have seen ment and the people that Queen RDON be ro. some of the cases before and Wilhelmina would after treatment bore testimony covered.
The.'cheers inside the Knights to the finding.
Hall were Further experiments, it was and told by crowds who waited. taken over a thou- necessary to outside to see the Regent drive and standardise the back to the Palace, The short pro- BO cassion of motor-cars. escorted by Hussars on motor.cycles, drove slowly back through the cheering crowds in the greyish light of the bleak autumn day,
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Russian Secret He also publishes details of parations and an equal voice in Recret Russian demands made by the control of the Ruhr. "Wis. V. M. Molotov on Adolf Hitler dom and justice will prevent in 1940 which Byrnes belloves the United States from acceding form a "good general algnpost to Soviet wishes, Mr. Byrnes for charting Russia's expan- predicted. sloniam" now.
Mr. Byrnes also suggests in stated, Molotov, he Bald, made his memoirs that Russia might modify "major diplomatie bunder" and have fought World War II with measures already adopted
greatly overplayed his hand" Germany rather than with the that the treatment can produce in pressing his demands on Alles had it not been for the uniformally good results in all Hitler in a two-day meeting in historie "blunder by V. 3 cases United Press. Berlin, Byrnes" expresses the Molotoy".
were
THE CHOICE
Juliana wore a greenish-blue belief that this conference, Hitler offered late in 1940
dress and her husband, Prince which eventually led to the to make Russia a partner, with
Bernhard, was in the uniform of breakup of the Soviet-German the eastern half of the British
In general of the Dutch Army.
After her return to the Palace, friendship pact and war be Empire and all territory south
Santiago, Chile, Oct. 14. Striking coal miners "a of Russia to the Indian Ocean tween the two powers, was
were re. the new Regent drove to the
decisive point in history.”
turning to their jobs today un. Queen's summer Palace, where As the Soviet loot. Captured der the government's order to she received the credentials of Mr. Byrnes proposed that the documents revealed that Mresume work by Wednesday or the new Greck and Danish Minis- United States answer Russia's Molotov overplayed his hand be sent to the mines as military ters, her first act after her official "obstructionism" on atomis in the Balkens-United Press. I conscripts.-Associated Press, taking-over of her mother's Ro. energy and German peace treaty
yal powers-United Press. agreements with "better and more" atomic bombs and a de- cision to drive the Red Army: out of Germany by force ir necessary.
Mr. Byrnes, whose reputation In Congress was based on his ability to win compromises and to "horse trade." admitted
re
might have to make peace with. Japan, Germany and Austria without Russia.
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Surprising Display BRIGADIER PASSES FLY EAST
Of Amity
London, Oct: 14.
luctantly that the United States In a surprising display of Big Four amity, the For- eign Ministers Council of deputies today prac- tically concluded arrangements for a four- power commission to tour Italy's former colon- He also conceded that his sen. les to determine what future form of govern- aational proposal-a ten-step ment the inhabitants want. "course of action" for restoring The American spokesman pre- "peace”—would lead to a Third dicted that the Commission would World War if the Russians re- leave London about November 2, fused to go along,
two weeks ahead of schedule,
However, Russla "Speaking
ផ Frankly*
opposed proposal agreed by published today
Britain, by Harper France and the United States, Brothers. The memoira recount calling for the submission of all In detall his behind-the-scenes territorial claims before the Com- rows with the Russian Foreign mission leaves on its six-months Minister, Molotov, the prelude to tour.
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the present Soviet Americná The Soviet delegate argued "cold war" and hundreds of that. this, In effect, would give neldents which currently in notions other than the Big Four spire him to advocate a "tough" Ings, which he sold was
a voice in Commiaslen proceed- policy toward Russia, with the trary to the decision already determination, to back it up with taken. force if necessary,;·
The Commission, it was de- Mr. Byrnes book guarantees elded, should ascertain the viewa him a place high on the Soviet of the local population and con.. liat of American "warmongers." sult to the fullest possible extort The book is unprecedented. No all sections of the populace in Secretary of State ever has told Somaliland and Libya.
three colonies Eritren, his inside story so soon after Investigators are to draft resigning. He left only last report for each of the three January on grounds of colonies about their investigations health,
and Include political, economie
alt
The book covora ail the and social conditions-United ground since, and Including, the Press, ⠀ famous Yalta conference and is poppered Uberally' with stories of pre-war, wartime and post-war events hitherto secret.
Inside
MURDER CASE Rhondda, Wales; Oct. 14. Haydyn Evans, aged, about
Mr. Byrnes roams all the way 21 years, was remanded in from the 1980 Hiler Stall custody at Porthtoday charg non-aggression pact through his ed with murdering Mrs. Rachel triala of trying, to negotiate Allen, 76-year-old recluse of with the Russians to his own Wattstown, Glamorgan who version of the Wallpcoin was found dead outside ber eldent" during which he laued house shortly before midnight
ultimatum to President on Saturday -Reiter,
Oct. 14. Brigadier -
neral
Robert Napler Smyth, D.S.O., died today at his home at Houghton Regla, Bedfordshire, at the age of 79.
He was the only son of Gen. eral J, H. Smyth, and as a subal tern he took part in the charge at the battle of Omdurman, ens of the last spectacular assaults with sword and lance. He served in the South African -war and. the first World War, and then in Ireland. Reuter.
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