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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1947,
PRESIDENT PROPOSES PRICE CONTROL ON SOME ITEMS Halting Alarming
U.S. Inflation BRITAIN
Washington. Nov. 17.
President Truman, delivering to a special session of Congress today a message on aid to Europe and plans for curbing inflation at home, de- clared: "We may lose for all time the chance to obtain a world where free peoples can live In enduring peace," unless Congress rapidly approve emergency stop-gap ald for Europe. He proposed the imposition of price control on certain key commodities to halt what he call- ed "alarming" inflation in the United States. He also called for consumerja year ago, was the mont Im- Cationing on "production short of portant mensure in a ten-point supply which basically affects programme he put forward to the cont of lying,"
"combat the ominous threat of tnflation".
alarm-
In a 4,000-word message de- |livered personally to a joint seg Mr. Truman said: "We already elon of the Senate and House of have an alarming degree of in- | Representatives. Mr. Truman Cation. And even more
zast: "We cannot abandon form, it is getting worge." [elgri nid now nor can we abandon
Ten Points our own people to the ravages to his ten-point of unchecked inflation."
Mr. Truman asked for:
Later, Mr. Truman gove this keynote to the task before the special Ression of Congress: "The future of the free nations of Europe hangs in the balanco. The future of our own country's ocomurty is in jooparty. The se tion which we must take will be written in the history of this pation and of the world."
U)
programme
1. Restoration of the controla
STAYING IN
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London, Nov. 17.
Reports from Washington quoting "authoritative sources" that the British Government has informed. the United States that it intends to withdraw British troops from -Greece by July 1 next year were officially denied by a Foreign Office spokesman tonight.·*
He said that there was no change in the “existing British intentions to with- draw Brillah troops as BOON na possible when their task In Greece, is complete. Reater.
Elephant
on hire-purchase and restraining | The Next
bank credit.
2. Regulation of speculation
trading on grain and other com Time!
modity exchanges.
3. Extension and strengthening
Washington, Nov. 18.
of export controls which under Senator Glen H. Taylor, the present legislation are due to completing ervas-country expire next March.
horseback ride for peace" junt
equipment to ensure the delivery of goods for export
CORNER IN ATOMIC METALS
London, Nov. 18. The Daily Express said today in a page-one story that the United, States is "paying up to US$1,460 a ton for uran- ium
it does not.
ore
Inced," trying thereby to corner the bulk of the world's atom metals.
"The United States Govern-| ment bought more than 10,000 tons of atomic metal ore last: year; less than 10 per cent of it could be used in bomb pro- duction and power experi- ments," Chapman Pincher, the Express scienco editor, wrote.
The Express, which takes an. Independent stand politically and is owned by Lord Beaver- brook, said the main American sources of uranium Katanga. In the Belgian Congo, Great Bear Lake in Canada and its own mines in Colorado. In adelition, Pincher wrote, the
were
thorlum
Vital Need
4, Extension of the Govern-in time for the special session United States Urgently endorsing Secretary ment's present authority to alof Congress, told a hat-waying from "important"
Was supplied of State Marshall's appeal inst locate transport facilites and audience of 1.000 today that he workings in Brazil which re- week for $597,000,000 to keep
might ride ап elephant Austrin, Italy and France alive
nest in a speech-making cam-control.
cently came under American in the next four and a half 5. Passing of measures to in. palgn to show that American months, the President said this duce the marketing of livestock foreign policy is "good for chase a small quota of the ore Britain was allowed to pur- scheme was a vital prerequisite and poultry at weights
which nothing." a long-range reconstruction would mean the conservation of
In a two-hour speech at the no other
mined at Katangn, he said, but programme for Europe,
grain,
Interior Department
buy country could audi- from that He continued: "If the Western
Rent Control
torlum. Sen. Taylor charged criving permission
Bource without re- European nations should col-
from the 4. Empowering of the Depart that foreign policy is directed United lapse this winter ne a result of ment of Agriculture to
States. Associated a failure to bridge the gap be-ite programme
expand by the military and Wall Street Pres
and against the of encouraging tween their resources and then conservation
have become the Stalingrad who reeds, there would be no chance United States and the authoris the villains of the Kremlin," for them, or for us, to Inuit toring of measures designed
He said on ta ward to their economic recovery." Increase the production of foods! kinat sorret he had ridden Three armed Jews held up a
While not naming Russia. in foreign countries".
and carried by auto-trailer on diamond merchant
his own President Truman implicitly re- 7. Authorisation of the allocn- a speaking trip from-California house in the all-Jewish city, of ferred to the Communist opposition and inventory controls
that he would fight "efforts to gagged him and stole diamonds Tel-Aviv during lunch to-day. un to the American ald piscarce commodities basically af
tl. European ald up in redworth £2,200, a police bulletin posals when he asserted, "We feeling the cost of living and tape."-United Press.
stated.-Reuter, have found that not all the na-industrial production.
9. Extension and strengthen- g of rent control.
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9. Authorisation of consumer rationing on products in supply basically affecting the cost of living.
10. Reimposition of price cell- U Saw
Price Control "And yet we cannot afford. and we do not intend to let, cur. Inga on critical products as well rent differences with some na- 4 the reimpositoin of wage
Rangoon, Nov. 17. ona deter our efforts to co. ceilings, although Mr. Truman The Burmese special tribunal operate in a friendly fashion and said, "I believe there would bement of the State trial in which |to-day ordered a further adjourn- to assist other nations who, like few occasions" when the impos-the former Premier, U Saw, and us, cherish freedom and seek to tion of wage coilings would boeight others are charged with the promote the peace and stability | necessary.---Reuter, of the world,"
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The order followed a petition by"the" defence" counsel," Mr." Ver- Lannes, seeking an adjournment until the arrival of Mr. Derek Curtis-Bennett, who, according to Д cable received to-day, will leave London on Friday..
wli
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The cable, which was read in court when the session was resum ed after nearly a fortnight's ad journment, was sent by Ko Gyi, U Saw's brother, now in London, WASHINGTON, NOV. 18,
arranged for Mr. Curtis- Bennett to defend the ex-Premior. SENATOR ROBERT TAFT; The tribuna decided to mest OHIO, REPUBLICAN, LAST in Chambers on Thursday to fix NIGHT DENOUNCED AS "Aa definito date for resuming the STEP TOWARD A-COM-trial on receipt of cabled con- PLETELY TOTALITARIAN firmatlon from Mr. Curtis-Bennett NATION" PRESIDENT TRU- as to when he is due. In Ran MAN'S PROPOSAL FOR A goon-Reuter. REVIVAL OF PARTIAL WAGE, PRICE AND RATION-
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