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RUSSIANS GET DIFFICULT Tightening Of Inter-Zonal Control Request Rejected By Britain
Berlin, Mar. 31.
Britain tonight answorod a Soviet proposal to tighten the transit control between Berlin and the Western occupation zones with a domand for a 15-day postponement while the matter is being discussed between the British and
·Soviet representatives.
Britain, it was authoritatively stated, rejected the Soviet plan for the inspection of freight in transport between Berlin and the West, and the Soviet claim that Allied personnel must be supplied with transit visas.
SEEING 'EM AGAIN
Ghent, Mar. 31. Beveral people here have
• reported seeing an object re- sembling a bell of fire flying at a great haight over the alty at night recently.
According to the reports, the object, which was travail- ing at great speed towarđe the Belgian coast, laft a light green or blue tail in its wake. wwReuter.
Battle In
The British authorities would by Marshal Vassili Sokolovsky, The Unions
Germany.
be prepared to agree that the the Soviet Military Governor in Allied commander of the train should be equipped with a pas- schger list which could be shown for information only to the Soviet control post.
The British reply was con- tained in a letter to the Soviet
Turned Back
Athens, Mar. 31, Mr. Irving Brown, chief Euro- Dean representative of the General Lucius D. Clay, the American Federation of Labour, American Military Governor, now in Athens for the
Greek commenting on the Soviet move Trade Union Conference, was to tighten the border controls, quoted as telling a press confer
ence today: "The battle is on
institutions.
BRITAIN'S HUGE SURPLUS
London, Mar. 31. The Treasury disclosed that it had a surplus of £635,380,- 863 in hand as the financial year ended tonight.
This balance, was more than twice the estimate made last November by the then Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton, and the estimate was £38,000,000 up on his ori- ginal estimate when the finan- clal year began.
Expenditure during the your was cut to £3,187,104,303 und re- venue TOM to £3,844,850.041. £22,373,875 went into sinking funds,
If conditions were normal, a
a reduction in the income tax when the Chancellor of the Ex- Stafford Cripps, chequer, Sir presents his first budget to Par lament next Tuesday.
authorities from the British said: "The procedures outlined between 'totalitarianism and free surplus of this size would mean
Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-Gen- eral Neville C. D. Brownjohn, which was made known here tonight.
The reply, sent to the Soviet Deputy Military Covernor, Lieutenant-General Mihail Drat- vin, declared that the Soviet au- thorities "have no right to inter- fere with trains carrying British personnel to and from Berlin.”
Tho British military train from Berlin to the British Zone was leaving tonight as usual.
No Extra Guard
"It is not intended that Rus- sian border guards will be allow- ed to board the military train to night to examine documents," a British spokesman said.
He added, however, that no extraordinary physical precau- lions were being inken and that the train guard was not being strengthened beyond is normal complement.
The intimation of strieter Bus- sian control mesaures on passen- rer and freight traße between Eerlin and the Western
Zones was made to the Western powers
SIAM AND THE SOVIET
Bangkok, Apr. 1.
in the Soviet request are not in accord with our agreement.
"We are preparing an answer. I have no further comment make at this time."
Beveral British
to
"It is a good thing the workers of the Western world are closing their ranks, for this is not a
between struggle
capital and military labour, but between totalitarian vehicles returned to Berlin to Socialism and free Socialism." he night after being halted by the said, according to the Athens Soviet authorities at the tonal [news agency. frontier for alleged Irregular)- Mr. Irving Brown sald that ties in their movement orders. Greece-where some 1,400 Greek unlonists, representing The Russian border ometals at 1.270 trade unions, are meeting Marienborn refused to allow the to elect a new executive for the vehicles along the Autobahn on Greck General Labour Соп- the grounds that there was no federation—was the last Balkan translation in Russlan of the country where it was possible to documents authorising their convene such a Congress.—Reu-
movement.-Reuter.
trade
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Negro Protest At Army Practice
Washington, Mar. 31.
Millions of his race would refuse to register or sarva under conscription or universal military train- ing unless racial segregation and discrimina- tion in the Services ceased, a Negro leader told the Sanato "Armed Services · Committee' today.
Because of the need to boost exports and prevent inflation, the Chancellor is expected to offer the taxpayer few, if any, reliefs, -Reuter.
Ban On Illegal Stations
Canton, Apr. 1. All illicit wireless transmit- ting stations throughout Kwangtung must close down and their equipment be surren- dered to the authorities imme- diately,
Landlords who permit lelt; transmitters on their premises will be held responsible and severely punished. Telephone lines connected to such stations will be cut.
Any person giving Information
leading to discovery of felt
stations will be awarded' CN$2,- 000,000.
A high Foreign Office source -naid today -that- Glam's-relations Mr. Philip Randolph, head-of-that-he-would-tall-negroes: "Do with the Soviet Union would be the American Federation of not shoulder arms la protection | much purely diplomatic and political, Labour Porters Union, appear of your country." and would have nothing 10 do ed before the Committee with ideologies,
in
Mr.
The latest drive against private transmitting stations is not so a security measure as a means of diverting communica tions through the normal chan-
speculation in foreign currencies on the black markets. It is main- ly through these stations
that operators aro able to receive quotations from Shanghat and
The Ministry Communications, Reuter learns, is
"Any attempt to link the ex-National Treasurer of a "com- would be doing my country anela and also as a step to curb change of diplomalle
against Jim Crow relations mittee between Slam and Russia with military service and training", current International develop- He said the negroesTM would ments is much too far fetched", stage a nation-wide civil dis- obedience profest unless Army
he added.
* Randolph replied: great service. If it does not de- velop the democratic processes at-home, then-it-is-not-the-type of country worth fighting for."
Senator Morse asked what
States were attacked Senator Wayne Morse (Re-into war.
who is a publican of Oregon),
Mr. Randolph replied: supporter of the Civil Rights Government now has time to programmes blocked in Congress change its programine on segre-
gation and discrimination. would
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He reculled the Czar Nicholas policies on segregation were would happen or forced visiled-Siam before-ascending the Russian throne and that stopped. negotiations for the exchange of missions were being carried out before the war.
We are just resuming an old friendship", "he added.-Reuter.
asked Mr. Randolph If he meant
Stalin Worried Stimson In 1945
New York, Apr. 1.
Mr. Honry L. Stimson, former American Secretary of War, suggested to Prosident Truman at the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945 that the secret of the atomic bomb might be used as a lovor to democratise “Russia's secret police state".
The proposal, which Mr. Stimson discarded a few months later as unfeasible, was disclosed in the final instalment of the former War Secre- tary's memoirs published in the “Ladles Home. Journal" today.
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It was made before, Mr. Stim-7_ Mr. Simson did not expect the son had come to the conclusion Russians to make war, nor did that no world organization con- he believe that "we are now en- taining a "police state could goed in the preliminaries of an
Inevitable conffct."" give "effective control of this He urged Americans desirous now agency with its "devastat- of peace with Russia to take a ing possibilities”.
full" part in the reconstruction of Later, Mr. Stimson sènt Pré- Western Europe and act quickly sident Truman a memorandum to build "world peace, not an containing an alternative pro-American peace" while working posal for a direct approach to to maintala, freedom and pros Russia by America-backed by perity in the United States. Britain, but outside any grouping
Reuter,
of nationa-to seek an agreement
on atom bomb control.
In his Memoirs, entitled "Time Malayan
of Peril," Mr. Stimson And Tin Prices
"Stalin axpresed a vigorous" and
disturbing "Interest' fa
Sovist bares in the Mediteranean Going Up
and in other areas wholly outside!
the sphere of normal Russian dras
terest."
while the chances of successfully.
London, Apr. 1.
The Ministry of Supply an
recommend that negroes take no part in the Army."
Senator More said this would force the Government to "apply the legal doctrine of treason to that conduct."
Mr. Randolph replied that he
'The Queen's' Escape
London, Mar. 31. realised that such a protest by of England today, driving small Gales swept the south const millions of negres would “enuse terrorism against the negroes," shipping into harbours, and al- but added: "I think that is a most blew the outward-bound. price we have to pay to get our Queen Mary against a South- democratic rights."-Reuter. ampton dock.
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Extra fugs were attached to the Queen Mary after a heavy' gust struck her astern as she was beginning to move. She missed the dock by inches.
Manila, Mar. 31. Bogus American bank notes,
Gales also raged across Scot- especially the $20 and $50 des jland. At Paisley, John Gordon, nominations, are at present 15-year-old apprentice, became flooding Manila and the pro-airborne on a corrugated iron vinces, police and constabulary
roof on which he was working | Intelligence reports disclosed-to- The 70-mile-per-hour wind swept
day.
the roof off the building and he made a pancake landing.
Gordon was treated for Ught bruises.-United Press.
The counterfelt. bills were sald to be coming from Shanghai.— Reuter,
Jewish Spokesman In Critical Vein
Jerusalem, Apr. 1.¦ Jewish Agency spokesman sharply criticised to
day the Palestine Government's warning that rescue operations like that after the Easter Sunday alege will not be possible if there is “further disregard of clearly understood in- structions.
The 200 Jews in the convoy: He said that the convoy had besieged south" of Bethlehem, been necessary, to replenish sup- the spokesman maintainod, piles of four isolated, and often In 1947, Mr. Stimson said that nounced tonight that buying and the overwhelming Arab forcesThe spokesman added that, an were lawful travellers, while and Zion area.ATTOO YA KIPIN Mitacked settlements in the Kfar making a direct approach to selling prices for Malayan tin will which attacked the convoy was Russia on the bomb were less be increased on April 7,000 Then he had thought in 1948 hehe Ministry's burlig price at condemned by the Gove the military would not provide a will believed any chance at all the smelters in Ponent or Binge would tempt Justified the 46 pore will b
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