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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MANCH 25, 1948.77
BRITAIN'S
".
BID TO BRING
GERMAN ISSUE TO HEAD Calling The Soviet Bluff
Berlin, Mar. 23.
A British boycott of all subsidiary organs.
of the Allied Control Council until the Council itself meats again was announ- ced tonight by Sir Brian Robertson, the Military Governor of the British Zone of Germany.
Sir Brian said the British authorities will not attend any lower level meetings until the Control Council continues its work with the four Military Governors in at- tendance.
This is the British answer to the ftiations with the Aliled Kommon- action last week of Marshof Vas dafuru. r!] Sokolovsky, the Soviet Coin- Field Marshat Viscount Moni. mander-in-Chief,
the imperial kuning gomery, Chief of and walking out of the Control General Staff, is expected in Ger Council meeting. after accusing many shortly to visit Lieutenant the Western powers of destroying Gentrit Sir Brian Horrocks, the Ur-power rule,
new Commander of the British General
tonight Army of the Rhine, who takes .Robertson denied earlier that a demand for aver his post In April, "an immediate elucidation“ of Russin's walkout had been unde by the Western Zone Military Go- vernments. Bot the announce. ment that British representatives would not attend the Council's subsidiary meetings was regarded as putting it squarely to the Itus- sians to come out in the open and expluln their recent moves and intentions.
The ameial British announce- ment of the boycott sald: "The Allied Secretariat has today been
ativised by the Military Governor
General Sir Brian Robertson, that British representatives will be unable to attend meetings of the quadripartite Directorate and its Committees until. the Control Council has inct to consider the
Britain circles said he might visit Berlin, but they did not con
To Proclaim Jewish State
Jerusalem, Mar. 23.
The Jewish Agency Execu tive, meeting in Tel Aviv tonight, decided to proclam * Jewish State in Palestino on May 10, the day after Brilain relinquishes the
mandate-Reuter.
TURKEY
BEGINS A.R.P.
Ankars. Mar, 23.
Germans To
Train
British Units
London, Mar. 23. Britain has called for German prisoners of war with technical ex-
Turkey is going back to air perience of winter cam- raid precautions again. The Turpaigns on the Russian kish authorities intend to rein-front to advise on win- traduce wartime measures which had been allowed to lapse relat-ter exercises carried out mg to anti-aircraft defence and by the British Army. air raid defence measures in the Istanbul and Bosphorus areas.
A meeting was held here yes- tehday to discuss new measures for the region.-Reuter
firm any connection between the visit and the present four-power There was no crisis in Germany.
Meinl confrmation of any con templated meeting between Field Marshal Montgomery and Marshal Sokolovsky-Reuter,
Czech Coup Raised
At Lake
Success
Lake Success, Mar. 23.
France declared in the Security Council today that the "full weight" of the United Nations must be put behind the Chilean complaint that Rus- sia has violated the sovereignty. of Czecho- slovakia.
bosition created by the Control M. Alexandre Parodi (France) said that there was
Council meeting of March 20.
This does not apply to the Kommandatura,”
The report that the Brilishi, United States and French Milliary Governments have today demand. ed an Immediate elucidation by the Soviet military authorities of their curt statement that they cannot take part in any Diren terate meeting at present is incor rect", the official statement said.
America Also
•
The American Military Gov. ernor of Germany, General Lucius D. Clay, stated this evening that United States
representatives would also not take part in the
work of the Allied
Control
meeting hud been called.
no question about the friendly attitude of the Czech Government towards Russia. The Czech Government, he said, rejected the Marshall Plan to conform with Soviet wishes.
The War Minister, Mr. Enunuel Shinwell, was asked) in the House of Commons to. day whether thin was not a breach of international flaw..
He replied that he was not aware of any breach, but "at any rate, we are doing It"
The question was prompted by an appeal broadcast to Ger mana In a camp-in Northumber land, asking for officers and armourera with technical ex- perience of weapons and mo- Eastern torised vehicles in winter campaigna.
The War Minister mainfalned that Britain must avail herself" of Bay technical experlenco which was conducive to the of ficiency of the Army." For a forthcoming indoor exercise, it was considered desirable to get information about eampaigning
extreme cold from sources readily available.
in
any
Labour Memberя suggest-
ed that it was "somewhat re- prehensible" that British troops should be trained by ex-Nazi officers, Reuter.
belag New Agreement
"Hut apparently all this was Įtain other Government not enough and in a few hours tuki, and without its approval.
democratic state was replaced "No one can believe that a With Holland
by a police state."
minority in Czechoslovakia could without tho He said that since February have succeeded
London, Mar. 21. 22, when the Communists took proximity of Soviet forces.
Britain and the Netherlands signed the voire of
the Security "That is why over control,
itself on the an agreement in London today un Edouard Benes, Czech President, Council, basing
must put itx fullder which Britain nettles claim of the Dutch Government arising from bad not been heard. "He has Charter, made it a single allusion to weight behind the Chilean com.the employment of Durch vessels un- the tradegy which has befallenplaint."
der British charter during the war.
The
under which Agreement, his country,
was an
signed by Alfred Barnes, British Minister of Transport and his Dutch counterpart H. Vos.
This is the second such agreement
"Dirty Manoeuvre”
manoeuvre,"
པ་
thusly until a Control Council "It is not unlikely that he is Mr. Andrei Gromyko (Rus-Holland receives nearly £5,000,000,
The ometal announcement said: kept prisoner, and has resisted sia), calling the Chilean con "We have advised the Allied all pressure to make him put plaint a "dirty Secretariat that we see no purpose his authority behind the new said that it was obvious that in holding subcommitte or Diree-order.
it must be supported by certain he signed by the two countrie great powers in their campaign in March last year Britain paid the we knew 41203 liked. Dr of "slander against the Soviet Netherlands about £1,500,000-and a third and final agreement is expectel Masaryk is no longer here to Union." testify, but his death sponka
forate meetings until another "But there was muther man
meetings until another meeting of the Allied Control Council has been called. This lots not apply to the Kommandatura."
He accused the United States to be ready for signature by the late As Berlin entered its third day for him. Whatever the cir and Britain of having devised muner
After the signing Vos' said ke without a functioning supreme autumatanicus of his death, it has a plan to dominate Czech poli-hoped some of the money would be thurity after the walkout from the only one clear meaning. The Lical life by “making.
цве of spent in England so that Holland Control Council last Saturday of
bearer of # glorious namo certain reactionary circles in could get materials to rebuild lier Marshal Sokolovsky, the Russian Commander-in-Chief. representa- could not consent to associato Czechoslovakia," but "said that feet and her merchant shipping.-A.
that name with the enslavo- these plans had been baulked sociated Preu. ment of his country.
tives of the five Western Union powers (Britain, France and the Benelux) inet the three Western Military Governors.
Extra guards were placed at the British headquarters here, where the meeting took place and corp- plete secrecy was maintained,
"Thus, of the two men who were the symbols of Czech iberty one is not free and the other in dead.
"We have been
toki
in time.
Mr. Gromyko said that it was clear that the Chilean foreign Government had no polley of its own and that the that financial and Industrial kings Czechoslovak events are purely of Wall Street' had the Chi- But the presence of the Benelux
no representatives, as domestic, but surely man lean economy, home and fore- well as top-ranking Allied dan believe that these eventa Ign policy in their grip- economic, political and finan- could take place without a cer-] Reuter. clat advisers, was taken as in indication that talks on tri- zonal Integration, stated in London fast month, were be- Ing continued here.
On a lower level, the Berlin City Council was worned today by General Alexander Kotikov, the Soviet commander in 'Berlin, that "speakers should cease to use the City Council as a forum for anti- Soviet propaganda."
After a short adjournment, the Council passed a vote of confidence In Dr. Ollo Suhr, the Socialist
Chairman.
Ludicrous
At the Allied Control Council Russian secretarial staff arrived for work as usual, but did'none,- An Allied spokesman said "the posliton'at the moment. `is_ludi« erotis. The Russlans will have to make up their minds Very soon whether, the Allied quadripartite control of Berlin is to cease от not.
American officials of the Kom- mandatura, the four-power body governing Berlin, are examining the possibility of making the American sector of 'the capital a watertight,urilt, the ¡Russiana: leave the Kommandatura, It was learned.
On the Russlan- side, a completo plan for a separate, government for Eastern Gerriany has been worked out in the past three- months by #bxx German: General Staff officers and two former In- Buential members of the Nation ällst Stafilhelm, organisation, ne- cording to the British-licensed newspaper Die Wet, enggan
Berlin City Vote After the confidence 'väte, the Berith City Council adopted a pro- ponal by the Socialist Unity, Party. That the Allied powers be asked. lo,recelvan', delegation from the Council to discuss, the Soviet com- plaint
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