THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1947.
NO LONGER THE BIG FIVE Direction Of Britain By Four Men
Cripps' Reputation Dalton's
Increased
Germans To Head Army Parade
Berlin, Nov. 16. The German band of the Hamburg Police Force will, head the parade of British army] units in Hamburg on the day of the Royal Wed- ding because there is no Brush army band avail- able in the city.
The regimental" muste to be played by the band is being down from Britain.
London, Nov. 16. Government_ power is now concentrated in four men. The sensational resignation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dal- ton, after the budget leakage this week, has made the Big Five Into a Big Four.
The effectual direction of the country is now con
trolled by the Prime Minister, "Mr. Clement Attlee, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, and the Deputy Prime Minis- ter, Mr. Herbert Morrison.
Jald him low in the
Mr. Balton's departure was vite a recurrence of thrombosis, the culminating point in a chain which of events which, over the past spring. year, has completely changed
Left Wing
the set-up of the Inner Cabinet. The only figure of requisite Before the winter crisis, stature who might, some think, which threw millions of Bri-ventually qualify for inclusion The day will not be A public
out of work, in the top group in the Left tons temporarily holiday in the British Zone, but
leading many
oferals of e popular conerption placed the Wing Labour lender, Mr. Military Government will waren;
Enner Cabinet in the following Aneurin Bevan, the Minister of the parade,
order of importance, Mesars, Joint services ceremoniad | Attler, Morrison, Dalton and parade will be held in Berlin in Cripps. Mr. Attlee has bren nonour of the wedding,
increasingly criticised in the Biteult months that have fol- lowed, but his continuation to
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Europeans
Reynt Norfulk Regiment, and anti Premiership has not been For British
RAF contingent will form Ap outside the Berlin radio station,
Three cheers will be given fur Princess Elizabeth, and the parade will march past sonlur officers of all three services, The unlute will be taken by Major General Herbert, the British Commander In Berlin-Beuter.
GO-SLOW PETROL STRIKE OVER
Buenos Airea, Nov. 15.
Rationed sales of petrol private motorists were resumed here today when a go-sinw move. ment in the distribution zules division of the oll panies ended,
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Cripps' Prophecies
Mr. Morrison, who was No,} In Importance before the crisis, but a serious illness as n result of which he decided to delegate son of his many functions, including the critical one of economic directions to other hands.
Mr. Heviu WILN
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thought No. of the Cabinet, Sir Stafford Cripps was "junior."
Mines
London, Nov. 18, Thirty thousand Europ- ean volunteer workers are to be recruited into British coat mines during the next 12 months under a scheme accepted today by the Exe- cutive of the National Vo- ion of Mineworkers.
The Introduction of for- eign labour had long been opposed by the Union. — Keuter,
Lesson In Ethics
PALESTINE FUNDS: A DENIAL IN LONDON
London, Nov./16.
A Foreign Office spokesman today emphatically denied a New York report that the British ad- ministration in Palestine Intended to appro- priate £12,500,000 from the Palestine Trea-
termination of the mandate.
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bable that there would be a payments, food subsidies Treasury deficit to be made good cast of living allowances to Bri- by the British Government tish, Jewish and Arab citizens when all commitments were slike, met, since the administration of The Colonial Office spokos- New York, Nov. 16.
Palestine had been consistently man also denied that the The New York Daily a liability to the British Govern tish Government was planning News declared in an edi- ment
the sale to private buyern of State land on the waterfront at Commenting on the uses torial comment today which the American report safd Halfa, as the New York rth that official Washington that Britain would vote the al-port had declared. could learn something of leged surplus the spokesman
Part Costs ethics by a study of Mr. said that it was true that Hugh Dalton's resigna- expected to pay pensione
Questioned about a Palestine Government would be
that statement in the report, and tion as Chancellor of the emoluments
the British intended to invest in Sivil Government securities in London Exchequer.
servants.
The practice in Washington of
to its own
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sugges
further
This seemed a proper charge a major portion of the Palestine handing "advance copy" to "pel for the Palestine Government to bonds sold to Palestinians, the newspapermen" had about it an bear, he added, since the ma spokesman replied: "Certainly, ethics at beat," "aroma of unfairness and sour ority of the civil servanta con considerable extent, to safeguard we have already, done so to # rald the Daily cerned were Arabs or Jews. News.
the money for the Palestinian Commenting on the tion that part of the sum would holders, and the money concern be devoted to frustrating visalessed had all been earmarked for immigration, the spokesman repayment to those Palestinian The New York Times snid that said that
holders." by far the greater cost involved--that of action by spokesmen about the uses to be the British Army and Navy-- was a direct charge on the Bri-made of the Palestine Treasury tish taxpayer.
"We wish our top drawer Gov the Dalton incident pretty studi.
ernment officials would ponder
ously."
itself.
there was a touch of tragedy in the resignation, but that the sequel overshadowed the episode "With the Exchequer under his control," the paper wrote, "Sir Stafford Crippa hold dicta- torial economle powers to which the nearest comparison would be
Sale Denied
Supporting both the official
surplus, one usually well-inform- ed source did, however, indiente today that the British Govern- ment policy would probably be He admitted that the cost of eventually to make the Palestine
Cyprus Government cover at least part, Palestine of the costs of the evacuation.
was doubtful, he said, that
those exercised by Mr. James the refugee camps iņ
Byrnes in wartime United States, was borne by the when he bore the title of Assia. | Government,
ant to the President,
"The significance of all this to Americans lies in the fact that,
A Colonial Office spokesman, the Palestine Government could reiterating the Foreign Office ever ralae enough money to pay denial, added that the Palestine for the full costs, which would nl a moment when the Marshall Treasury surplus, mentioned in include compensation payments Plan has emerged n the out. standing issue of the day, the the report, of £6,250,000, was a to many civilian employees. complete responsibility for pro."budgetary surplus" and was Reuter, duction in Britain has passed into the hands of one British www | statesman who, more than Health, who, as an individual-the underlying spirit of the plan ather, may be said to epitomise ist, wields great suthority. -the spirit of self-help."-fleu-
As, however, a fusion of Mr.¦ ter. Revan's Left Wing philosophy with the more of the Big Four seems unlike
orthodox Ideas Brum City-
Mr. Bevin's stock in the coun- try has never fallen and tends to rise steadily, if slowly. But Sir Stafford's reputation has
ly, few people visualise him as Treasurer To inereused sensationally. ON, ridiculed by his political en-completing the Big Five.
The patterni year ago for con- Government now
Inner Face Trial shows Mr. stantly preaching austerity as Attlee as general supervisor, the country's Imperative need, his warnings have been richly Justied by the crisis.
eries oar
His known great contribu- tions to the Indian and Burma settlements have added to his reputation,
of the
Birmingham, Nov. 16.
any
Mr. John R. Johnson, 58- Sir Stafford Cripps as direc-year-old Birmingham City
Jewish Agency Wins First Round
Flushing Meadows, Nov. 16.
The Jewish Agency won the first round today in its fight to prevent the British Government from appropriating any Palestine Treasury surplus when the British administration leaves Palestine.
The Agency representative,
tor of the whole economic drive Treasurer, who once saved Moshe Shertok, persuaded the for recovery, and Mr. Bevan Birmingham £1,000,000. Is to
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Secretary with face trial en charges, alleging United Nations Palestino Parti Queen Mary
supervisory interest In all over sens interests, such as colonial and Commonwealth mattera, Mr. Morrison
Another Minister with multi- Sir Stafford, supervising, as ple portfolio is the Minister of well as the Treasury, [other] Defence, Mr. A. V. Alexander, "economic" Ministries, has a who has overriding control- of larger responsibility than any the Naval, Army and Air De single member of the Govern- partments, but his personal in ment after the Prime Minister fluence in the Cabinet is not to His indoence ranks equally be compared with that of the with Mr-Bevin-and-if-a change Bg-Four-Reuter of Premiership took place, Mr. Bevin or Sir Stafford Cripps would be indicated as alterna- SMUTS IN ATHENS
tives to Mr. Attlee.
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Mr. Morrison continues to be a very powerful force in the Government. As leader of the House of Commons, he is the supreme director of the Gov ernment's legislative grumme and party boss..
pro-
In the administrative and Parliamentary sense, his brain is accond to none in the Gov- ernment. At present, however,
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Sub-Committee here covering tion
adopt a text Into its partition report that the Interim manda- tory power ahould negotiato
The prosecution alleged at the magistrate's court here yesterday that Johnson carned over $72,000 from outside commissiona in his spare time and that £47,000 penalties could be claimed,
Clarence Hatry finonelul crash in It was Johnson who saw the 1920 and saved the Corporation from huge losses. Reuter.
SYRIAN ARMY MANOEUVRES
Delayed
with the United Nations Com By Storms
mission regarding the disposal of assets of the Palestine "Gov- ernment,
stars
Southampton, Nov. 15. The 81,000-ton Uner Queen The resolution reads: During Mary, bringing Royal wedding the period between the appoint- quests from the United States, ment of the United Nations has been delayed by about 13 Commission and the termina-hours by bad storms in the At- tion of the mandate, the manda-lantic,-the-Cunard-White-Star
Line said today. tory power shall negotiate with The liner, due to dock here the Commission on any conces Tuesday morning, had made up Damascus, Nov. 16.
alon which it may intend to the 25 hours she had lost when Athens, Nov, 15.
The Syrian President and Com- Field-Marshal Jas Sinute,,
Prime manier-in-Chief will tomorrow super grant, or any measure which it a strike delayed her sailing from the Union of South vise army manoeuvres in the Susa may contemplate, Involving the Southampton last week. She is Africa, arrived in Athens today on Plain, in the Palestine frontier re-liquidation and disposal of any bringing the Hollywood
Montgomery Royal wedding, his way to London to attend
thegion h of Damascus, afterwards Palestine Government assets, in Rob Hope, Robert
Visiting barracks and garrisons. cluding an accumulated Trea- and Loretta Young to Britain for a Royal Command film perform- General Smuts is spending Iwo Tomorrow's manoeuvren will mark gury surplus and the proceeds of ance days in Athens as a State guest, but, the close of Syrian operations near bonds issued for State lands. Her sister ship the Queen at his own request, there will be no the Palestine frontier. They started official receptions-Reuter.
No opposition to this amend- Eilzabeth is in dry dock for re fast mon:-Reutre..
ment was voiced by any mem- pairs to the damage caused by ber of the Committee, and Mr. recent heavy weather and is ex- pected be in port for three John Martin, the British presentative, made no comment weeks longer than originally anti.
elpated.-Reuter. understood Jawish Agency circles have feared for some time that the British Government might lay claim to certain Palestinian as-
Amsterdam, Nor. 16. sets, estimated at about £12-
Princess Juliana of the Nether- 500,000, as compensation for lands and her busband, Prince Bern the evacuation of British hard, today received Mr. Mackenzie troops and administrative per-King, the Canadian Prime Minister. sonnel, and the cost of prevent The crowd cheered and the Dutch and Royal Marines Band played the illegal immigration ing
Canadian National Anthem as Mr. maintaining immigrants campa
Mackenzie King
arrived. In Cyprus, and damage done to
The Prime Minister later lunched property by terrorista-Reuter,
Juliana and Prince with Princes Bernhard, the Dutch Prime Minister. and other Government officials being present-Reuter.
Pope's
Moral
Appeal For
Principles
Castel Gandolfo, Nov. 16.
Pope Pius, in a speech to the new Haitian Minister to the Holy See, said today that conventions and pacts of peace without sincere spiritual preparation "will never be but an incoherent attempt at sterile reformation" without hope of success.
THE APOLOGY IS MINE IT IS ONLY PLASTER! ---- THE BRONIS ORIGINAL IS
IN THE STRONG ROOM WITH MY OTHER HEIRLOOMS!-I SHOULD BE RUINED IF 1 GAVE EVERYTHING AWAY!
Speaking in French after Ministrophe of recent wars, and sald ter Leon R. Thebaud had pre."Never, in fact, has humanity in sented his credentials, the Pontiff a lapse of time relatively said it becomes more and more short, had to fear and to weep evident that without sincere pre. at the spectacle of so much blood. paration of the spirit, all articles shed, so many ruins covered by and clauses of conventions and such a collapse of material and parts of peace will never be but spiritual values,"
an incoherent attempt at sierlie The Arst step toward the res. compromise. No clairvoyant spirit toration of the world, he declared, or no man, instructed by the ex-must be repentence and a return perience of history, would dare to these "moral, eternal principles
which no one
con aver violate The Pope deplored the catas. with impunity."-United Press.
promise them a long future,"
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Buenos Aires, Nov. 16. A-bomb explosion in the garden of Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramul-
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EGYPT EPIDEMIC SLUMPING
Calro, Nov. 16. The slumping cholers rate dropped as headquarters touched off again today, with a communique police investigation today of a series showing 62 persons, dead and 19 new of similar lacidents in recent weeks, cance of the disease in Egypt in the -Associated Prem,
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ELEVENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING.
SATURDAY, 22ND NOVEMBER, 1947. The First Bell will be rung at 100 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2.30 p.m.
Through numbers (7 races-$14) may be obtained at thé Office of the Treasurers, 1st Floor, Exchange Building also tickets for the Special Cash Sweep on the last race as well as those for the "Hong Kong Derby! to be run at the Annual Race Meeting to January 1948. The latter may also be pur chased at the Club Branch Office. No. 382 Nathan Road, Kowloon,
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