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BRITISH PLAN FOR GERMANY
Parallel Aims With United
Formal Division
Of Reich?
London, Jan. 8.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, today tabled for discussion by the Cabinet hls detall- ed report on the failure of the Council of. For- eign Ministers to reach an agreement on joint action in Germany and its significance for future British policy in Germany. Coming as it does immediately after yesterday's announcement of new measures for coordinat- ing German participation in the economic ad- ministration of the Anglo-American bi-zone. Cabinet consideration of German policy must necessarily take into account the new situa- tion created by this concentration of adminis- trative power in Frankfurt.
The
first Soviet reaction to ed because she can extend her the new proposals mude by Gen-political influence in the Wes- cral Luciva Clay and General tern Zones more effectively if Brian Robertson, both in the the present uncertainty is main- Soviet-controlled press and in tained.. the comment of the Soviet off-
In addition, many observersi here believe that Russin's do-i
clal press Agency from Berlin, her are critical.
The proposals are denouncedclared intention of perpetuating in a Tass Agency despatch as the machinery of the Council aiming at "virtual dismember of Foreign Ministers for the
HONGKONG-London ment of Germany, a course Japanese peace settlement will
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Atlikas, Jan. 8. Completo defeat for the Greek guerilla forces by lato 'pring or early sum- mer was predicted today by General William G. Live- say, head of the United States combined staff group in Greece.
that The general added the United States War and State Departments had al- ways intended to send ́ ́'àil the supplies necessary to achieve that end. He told correspondents that he ex- pected to Approve shortly recommendations ziving
more arms to the Greek people-Reuter.
German
Workers Walk Out
DUESSELDORF, JAN. 8.
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SHANGHAI, JAN. 9.
A CHINESE DESPATCHI FROM CANTON TODAY RE- PORTED THAT. HUANG YUAN-FIN, MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL, SAID THAT GEN- ERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI- SHEK HAS HANDED TO THE FINANCE · MINISTRY! AN OUTLINE PLAN FOR CURRENCY REFORM, THE MAIN POINT OF WHICH CALLS FOR THE LIFTING OF ALL CONTROLS ON FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Huang said that the lifting of exchange controls also would be likely to result in the loosen- ing of import controls,
Trade British H.Q.
Hunng warned against com. plete reliance on United States aid, called for a rebirth of Chi- nese industry and added that the proposed currency reform SOLINGEN. THE GERMAN would bring an end to black The Cabinet decisions on fu-
STEEL CITY, DOWNED markets in gold bars, foreign ture British policy must clear-
TOOLS TODAY FOR A 48-currencies and commodities.
United Press. If the quadripartite control HOUR GENERAL STRIKE. initiative which lies outside survives the announcement of The strikers, acting on the or-- purely Beltish control.
the new economic reorganlanders of the Solingen Mr. Bevin, in addressing tion of the Anglo-American bi- Council, demanded that both Parliament on the fallure of zone. then British policy in normal and workers' rations be the London Conference, made likely
to be guided by twe met in full and that blackmar- it clear that nothing would be parallel aims.
keteers be adequately punished." done on the British side to close
Solingen was calm and no the door on an eventual four- First, in conjunction with disturbances were expected. power agreement in Germany. the United States to continue In Duesseldorf, Mulheim,
the practical task of promoting Oberhausen and other Ruhr Sir Clifford Norton, British Am- Russian Move? economic recovery in the hi-cities today, trade councils were bassador in Greece, today inform-
zone, while giving the Germans meeting to decide action. It may be fairly assumed themselves increased responsi that this basic alm underlies billes for the working out of the recommendations which are their own problems, understood to accompany Mr. Bevi's analysis of the present herto unsuccessful attempt
Secondly, to continue the hi German altuation and of the
promote
economic necessary steps for handling it in future.
unity,
German
In Greece To Close
Albens. Jan. 8,
ed M, Constantin Tsaldaris, Greek Foreign Minister, that British
At the week-end, union lead-headquarters in Athens will short- ers will decide whether to call y ecare to exist. a general strike throughout the Ruhr "to call the attention of the world to our plight." to
Some unions are demanding a general strike throughout the British Zone, but union leaders;
Sir Clifford Norton was under. stood to have explained that it was purely an administrative mea- sure which would not affect the overall strength of British comba-
ant troops in Greece.
Authoritative quarters explained
conferm
The central question in the The most likely concrete are opposed to this proposal. that the move merely reduces opinion of diplomatic observers efforts Mr. Bevin will propose It was not clear today whe-British headquarters to
to the strength of British troops here now whether Rusain will to this end are an increase in ther the Essen miners would
now generally known to total one choose to regard the new ad- trade between the Western and join in the five-hour general briande with its headquarters at ministrative measures, in the Eastern Zones of Germany and strike called at Essen for to- Saloniks. bi-zone as a pretext for finalis-between the Western Zones and morrow. The miners' · leader- The move in no way affects the ing the division of German by Eastern European countries and ship opposed participation, but British milkary mission to Greece a break in the Allied Control early conclusion of currency re- many miners wished to strike commanded by Major-General S.
B. Rawlins-Router, machinery in Berlin or whether form on a quadrizonal basis and other unions had expressed she will content herself with Reuter, attempting to persuade the Ger- man people that it is America and Britain who are bent on dividing Germany.
Arguments advanced in Lon- don by those who believe that' Ružais intends to make an early arenk include the following:
1. The stepping up of Soviet propaganda in Berlin, designed to convince the population of the capital that the days of the Western Powers delegations to the quadripartite Control Coun- cil in the German capital are numbered.
The Other View
Fears
support.Reuter.
For Safety
Of U.N. Body
.
Lake Success, Jan. 9. United Nations officials here are becoming in- creasingly concerned about the safety of the Palestine Commission when it finally arrives on the spot.
the
United
ANGLO-DANISH BARGAINING
London, Jan. 8. Bargaining for Danish bacon and butler started in London today when the joint Anglo- Danish financial committee met at the Treasury on the third day of its tradle talks,
A Danish spokesman describ ed the previous meetings with British officials a friendly and cooperative".
Members of the Danish de- legallon were entertained..to What was expected to be tingents:
States luncheon by Mr. John Strachey, merely a short-lived outbreak favours far more substantial Minister of Food-Router.. of violence now seems to have forces, especially naval, than settled down to a ateody,slaugh. | the Soviet Union is prepared to ter without any signs of abat-sanction. Ing.
A SLANDER?
London, Jan. 8. Commenting today on the
2. The desire of the Soviet securities to close the gap which Berlin represents in an almost complete laulation of the Soviet The growing belief among It now seems likely that the Zone from, contact with the many delegations that partition Palestine Commission, after its Shylas rumours that Marahal of the Holy Land cannot be en-preliminary meetings on Fri- Stalin is dead, M. Pavlov, Cpun. 3.-Tho accumulation
of forced without some kind of anday, will consult Colonial Office sellor of the Soviet Embassy In rumours indicating increasingly army, throws into relief the fal- experts attached to the British London, said: "The report is hurried Soviet preparations for lure of the United Nations so delegation, and will decide to obviously a slanderous a new administrative pattern in far to create even the rudi-hold more detalled discussions monstrous fabrication” —Reuter
ments of a world Recurity in London.
Western world.
the Soviet Zone,
The counter-arguments cen- force.
tre primarily round the belief The main point of disession It is generally agreed that that Russia dous not yet wish among the great powers is the little or no useful work can he to see Germany, formally divid- strength of the proposed con-accomplished here on the com-
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