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Normandy Wants To Forget The War And D-Day
I know a tank from the turret of which wild thyme grows, and an Army truck called "Daisy" which lies abandoned still in a Normandy ditch embraced by the
dog-rose.
On the new Michelin map of
Normandy they are marked in
By JENNY NICHOLSON
Our Roving Reporter
Λ
or fusa or claims, to history. soldier could returf and recon- struct a past battle without a plaque, a notice, A memortal- without thing to opoil the dignity of the memory.
ROUGH GAME OF POWER POLITICS
Boston, July 14. The Christian Science Monitor, in-an-editorial_to=-
day, expressed the opinion that the "strong arm" Soviet policy in Asia "invites counter moves from the Wost in a rough game of -power politics.” "Particularly it invites a re- In the small village of Trun building of Japanese power- the men fell in thousands--they move particularly hazardous lay about in the front gardens,
in the case of economic power in the surrounding fields, outside and morally revolting in the the post office, on the steps of the bakery, but the people of case of military power."
Observing that the Sovbt Tran, without any historical feel-
COLD WAR
MAINTAINS ITS PITCH
24354 Reporters & General Office 32312 purple. Things marked in purple hand, the Allies appeared to be are referred to in the Index atrazing their towns to the ground, "vestiges of war."
These are the relles which peo-in the most careic way.
Knocking the countryside around ple are expected to come in
No Show Or Fuss
ing, make, no visible claim to palley In Asin has a "nationalist H.K.$18.00-buses to see. These are the
vestiges
of something we used
of the right arm" and "Marxist Now one comes to remember being the very centre call the 11.K.$30.00 to
Second
Front it in more honest perspective they closing of the Falaise Gap, The Volutionary left arm," the paper Jew months. four
Graves Commission came oven said the right arm is a "conlin- years were pretty story-faced when
der for the position of economic H.K.$72.00 ago this summer, which excite Allied soldiers
and cleared away went skulking
tually
The people
domination left vacant by of Trun urchards tend. ed almost everyone; in the world grimly through their
dragged except the Normans and, to an pursuing the enemy,
nway the weapons of Japanese collapse and crumbllag ས་་
old imperialism. even lesser degree, the Germans. And, although one turned a war into nearby junkyards and of the
"The disclosure by thla pa. were desfish ear at the time, 1 seem allowed them to perish,
The British Deputy Chief. Although the Normans
chief Far Eastern corres- per's reported at the time to be as en- 10 remember them grumbling:
of Staff, Few Tourists
pondent, Gordon, Walker,
Major General thusiastic about the first burst of "Why didn't you aght in the Faya
Immense Industrial activity go. Westropp, tonight, categori- liberation
generally Basque? Far better for the armles as it was
Eastern Siberia cally denied reports appear-
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Berlin, July 14.
The Germans had not treated to the British area of the Nor-rowls of covered with the success. It calls for determined | "plan" for the evacuatoin of
DEMOCRATS SPLIT ON RACIAL RIGHTS
Philadelphia, July 14. Southern drive to water down the racial rights plank in the Democratic Party's national plat- form was smashed by a united opposition of "liberal" and "regular" Democrats.
Malayan War Damage Claims
Ken
of attraction'—surrender
co-
with. native
31 W. Ton a large scale.
that Britain,
In London, 1 Foreign Office spokesman dented reform, France and the United States
planned to
to put Russia on trial" before
the International Court of KlantJustice at The Hague unless the make ce
Soviet authorities lifted their more Inscribed the and boxes
blockade of Western Germany. Arromanches- port
the seem little other-wordly. Yet He pointed out that no case berntion."
only by keeping a tough realism taken to the Court could be heard for about two years. Observers
of
13
ident
consideration
The Plage has been rebuilt, so in equilibrium with for seeing there is a
a wide concrete walk for idealism is the Democratic West in London consider that the next miles along the front. And likely to avoid disaster in Asia." watched an ex-Army amphibious-United Press. craft
small flag- dragging decorated pleasure boat down a new slipway into the sen.
It was unmistakably an effort
The Southerners on a state at preparing for tourists, but the by state roll call were over-slightly self-consicous air with whelmingly defeated 925-309 in which it was being done rather an-attempt to stick the "states' emphasised the miserably small rights" declaration in the plat- tourist nitendance
as 10
Colonial Planning
London, July 14.
Kiep depends on whether the Western powers see any hope that following up any feelers in the Russian reply to their notes may ease the tension.
The Bovlet assertion that traffle to Berlin is hold up only by rail, road and canal ropatra leaves a loophole for a resump. tion without the need of slimb-dowIT Any four-power talks would take some time to prepare, so that time would re- main for the "technical repairs" to be completed. If the Berlin crisis could
72 the
be
It is true Caen does bonst a tall
which rises | Ing on fril they ought to be, looking to have landed in the Pays Bas-memertal column
throws from the ruins surmounted by a
a sharply revealing ing in today's Soviet-licensed The powers the govern-back on it me realises that they que!" is this thoroughly neom-golden angel. And Arromanches light on this danger. ment now proposes to take took a much more practical, much
less emotional Hoe than the Allies promising attllure of the Nor makes a notable effort to preserve "The sinister left arm cannot Vorwaerts that the Western Bunder the new Ordinance
wished to believe,
mazs which makes these revisits a little of the old colour. Walls be countered by force with much Allies had drawn up a secret for the "Prevention of Cor-
have been left
Ken Loll, experiments by the West in Berlin. ruption might normally be them badly. and they said su.] inandy Campaign tolerable. There
were very cor- seems to be no compromise with Sturdy Bob," and they have even politics expected to achieve as effec-"The Germans
privilege, to repaint the of imperialistic On the other the tourist trade at all, no show goncz so for us
"Out Of Bounds to All Troops" operation live results indirectly as by rect" they said. the process of prosecuting
(though by mistake they left the humanitarian, and educational aid: "s of Troups) and offenders. Those public ser-
Group F. E." There are two shops "The humming of vants who have been in the
in Siberia may dynamos in where you can buy souvenir business
systematic
estrards basis receive fair warning: they may not desist, but they are compelled to watch their every step, exercise the ex-The treme caution which may place limits their
on tivities. So far as it goes, this is all to the good. Whatever the true facts. to believe there is reason that corruption has reached widely proportions more spread than at any other
form. The plank was offered A yellow bus arrived. Here Replying to a.suggestion in time in local history, and
by former Governor Dan Moody they are, I I thought. They will the Commons by Mr. Geoffrey that the work of the Anti-
of Texas. Similar planks are work along the Plage and stare Cooper, Labour, Mr. Creech still before the Convention at the artificial port they called Jones said it would not, in his Corruption Branch has done
Mulberry-on uneven line of little more than touch upon
But the temper of delegates Simken ships standing out in the view, be practicable for indicated clearly that they Some of the its fringes.
grey English Channel-sad and economic development of the reduced to manageable propor- would be defeated.
whole of the Empire to be dealt tions, the United Nations Ceneral vill ghostly--hry
hire the difficulties which have handi-
The Southerners are willing capped those engaged in the
London, July 14.
to take a compromise." A civil picarure bout and sail nearer so with by a single colonial econo-Assembly in Paris next Septem- ber, some observers think, might closer view of the mic Planning Board. la fet clean-up campaign are re-
rights plank was drawn up by hulks. Mr.
Loose contacts were maintained give the Foreign Ministers of the Leonard Gammans, the Convention's resolutions moved by the Bill, for once
Conservative, asked in the committee.
But the merry crowd debussed between the Colonial Office and four powers their beat opportunity But they wanted it on to
Colonial they have obtained any evi-
to the Montgomery Plage and, the
Development Cur-for falks-Reuter. Commons when the terms of offset by assurances that thu with lourd cries and withoul poration and the Overseas Food dence giving ground for
Federal Government would stay much as a glance in the direction Corporation on the one hand and strong suspicion, and an in-payment of Malayan war out of local affairs. The scrap was of Mulberry, spel down to the the Central Economie. Planning vestigation has been ordered, damage claims would be an-out
first floor fight of the Desca to bathe, whirling their towels Staff on the other. pro-mocratic Convention in more and bathing dresses above their These contacts,
tacts, together with access may be had to bank nounced and if it was
heads like lassos.
the appointment of representa- accounts and financial trans-posed to accept the principle than 20 years.
of any priority
Mississippi bolted categories
The people of Normandy have ilver of the two corporations and actions generally which may
New Delhi, July 4. be built up into corrobora- whose claims would be met Convention today, Jaining half of returned to the only battle they of the Central Economie Planning Alabama's delegation-in-a dram- really recognise--their endless Staff as associate members of the
Sadashiv Parchure, one of the tive evidence of guilt. Em-in full before a pro-rata pay-tie march to the door.
fight with the weather. The only Colonial Economic and Develop accused in the Gandhi murder large-scale reminders of the ment Council, were designed to trial, today repudiated a con- phasising the words "bullt ment was made to others.
The walk-out touched att a old violence are the
military assure the co-ordination that, Mfession he signed saying he up." this is the weakness as Mr. Creech Jones replied: "It final futile protest by the re- cemeteries. well as the strength of the was expected in April last that
bellious Southerners against
supplied the pistol us the civil rights plank.
Mahatma Gandhi. Bill. The Acting Attorney-particulars of the Malayan war damage compensation scheme General, the Hon. G. E. dam
would be announced shortly, Re- It came shortly after Governor
events Strickland, anticipated the cent
in Malayn have Ben Laney of Arkansas withdraw key point of possible critic-doubtless delayed the considera- as the State's candidate for Pre- ism and objection to the tion of this matter, but I am en- sideat and as most of the rebel measure when he urged that quiring of the Malayan Govern-Dixie group shifted its its provisions should not be ment what is the position re-vole to Senator Richard Russell
garding both points referred" to of Georgia, viewed as making funda- in the question, and will commu-| Immediately after the insur-A Navy expert today warned that nearly all United
walked gents
out, mental innovation in the Inlcate with Mr. Gammans."
Georgia's States industrial cities are vulnerable to under- Senator Russell's name was put law of evidence. About this
Mr. Tufton Beamish, Conserva-in the nomination.
water atomic explosions which will cause “lin- point, in particular, we are tive, complained that the stof Thieleen, Alabama bolters and goring radioactivity” not observed in air bursts. distinctly dubious. Clause of the Malayan War Damage all 22 Mississippi delegates then Walmer Strope, naval archi- | Expanding on his thesis to a re-not Involved-Associated Press. Eleven, which carries' the Commission
insuf-made their way slowly up the tect in the Bureau of Ships, porter, Strope said that radio- sub-title "Presumption of felent for the last three years centre aisle and out of the hull, sald the under water tost at action materials from an alr burst not Senbfor Lister Hill, who leads Bikini showed how whole in- quickly dissipated. But an un- Corruption in Certain Cases," and that some claims had
even been acknowledged.
that section of the Alabama dusdustrial areas could be covered der water explosion could so con- directly reverses the usual
legation
which
will remain in order and transfers the onus aware of that particular difficulty cognition. He announced
would Mr. Creech Jones said he was the Convention, then sought re- with radio-active rain, making laminate a strategic area that the
bo incessible that decontamination "slow, costly c of proof. In certain circum-and had taken what steps were Alabama, yielded to Georgia for and only partially successtul." stances, covering evidence possible to get early payment. the purpose of placing in no. In such cases, restoration of important American cities of the receipt of a monetary He was at the moment com- mination a candidate for the De-production would be "very slow located near enough to water to
Bucharest, July 14. the Malayan mor gift or other consideration, municating with
mocratic Presidential nomina-if not an impossible task."
be victims of "radiological war- Magda, Lupescu, who Strope set forth his views in fare."
the wife of ex-King. Atomic explosions could came Sam Rayburn, recognized Charles can Ordnance Association. His barge or tramp steamer an by an ceremony in Rio Block of Macon, Georgia. Mr. article was cleared by the Navy air attack--United Press. Bloch nominated Senator Rus- Department 'and the sell-United Press.
had beer
from the
protest
Cooper had in view-Reuter.
ATOM BOMB EXPERT SOUNDS NEW WARNING
Washington, July 14.
weeks.
far
Confession Repudiated
to kill
He told the court the statement was signed under "the threat of
dire
my releases to myself and
The prosecution contends that Parchure gave the pistol to the actual murderer. The court per- miltted the hearing to continuo ́or=" dering that the prosecution pro- vide evidence that the statement was made "freely and voluntarily" before a magistrate, whose dutr it was to assure that duress was
Magda Lupescu out that nearly all Loses Property
are
be-
it is decreed that it shall be/ Government about insuffeleniency} tion chairman, Representative "Ordnance," Journal of the Ameri-ibe planted as easily by a coal Carol of Rumania at a bedside
of staff.-Reuter.
The
NO DANGER
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presumed that the money or consideration was received corruptly unless the contrary is proved. The accused in such a case is to be presum-
New York, July 14. ed guilty unless he can prove
master of the steamer his innocence, a principle Grand Dyke, having radioed well established in France, distress signal that the engines but completely foreign to had falled 110 miles south of the fundamental British law. Panama Canal, replied to an As- Apparently, this applics even sociated Press radiogram enquir where an accused cannot be there is no danger when you
ing what danger she was pinned down to direct evi- have good Scots engineers."
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to strong objection what can be less dangerous in an- might amount to the creation other. In what kind of. of a highly dangerous pre-offence is it more likely that cedent. The Bill, after all, the chief purpose of an al- is quite inadequate to attack leged accomplice would be the great mass of small-time to cover up his own mis- bribery with which the deeds and save his own skin? Colony is riddled: it is de-Certain safeguard clauses signed to simplify control of are included, it is the more important operators Much of the initiative in in who run bank accounts and vestigation is preserved to no- indulge perhaps in share the Attorney-General: dealings. It is directly con- one below the rank of an cerned with Д relatively Assistant Superintendent is small section of the com- permitted access to a man's munity. Where one finds bank account. Nevertheless, special legislation for special study of the general, tenor cases, it must always be of the measure leaves be- examined with suspicion. hind a hesitation to lend it We are not sure, either, that full endorsement. Its pur- we like the provision which pose is to be commended, relloves the judge from the but if we are to be guided necessity of warning the by the general principles of Jury that it is dangerous to law, it appears to contain attach too high a value to the more defects than it ctires.*.
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be
de Janeiro last July when she was dan- gerously ill, has been, deprived of her Rumanian citizenship by 46 YEARS AGO.
order of the Rumanian Govern- ment,
it was announced today. London, July 14. Progress toward "open diplo- Her property In Rumania will macy" is slow,
confiscated, it was added. the Public Records Offee made Magda Lupescu was one of 15 of their "The people deprived today this announcement, today, Keeper of the Records announced Rumanian citizenship and of their that on July 1, those records of possessions.
Office and the Foreign
the Among the others, who includ- Colonial Office for the period ended several diplomais, were M. Max ing Dec. 31, 1902, which are de Ausnit, the Rumanian steel king. posited
in the Public Record and Mary Franassovici, wife of Ofee, were made open to public Richard Franassovici, who resign- Inspection. The records of theso ed his post as Humanian political lust departments have been open only representative in London
year.Router. down to 1805,"-United Press.
SHANGHAI
BID TO
HOLD DOWN PRICES
Shanghai, July 15.
A control organ to direct the largo-scalo dumping of supplies in the present price control cam- paign here was formally inaugurated at the Central Bank yesterday,
American aid supplies and The China Press today, quoted United States Army surplus a Central Bank oficial as stating goods purchased through the that since the dumping of cotton Central authorities are said to cloth and cotton yam and other be the main source of goods for commodities during the past three days, more than five million mil- the dumping.
Meanwhile, it is reported that lion dollars: had been called in. a liat of major market manipula- The city is now experiencingʻan tors and profiteers, compiled by acute shortage of cash, and big the Shanghai Woosung Garrison denomination notes are extremely Command and the Police Bureau dimoult to get. A high premium after a one-month investigation, is being demanded by firms for has been brought to Nanking by providing big denomination notes. General Chiang Ching-kuo, eldest
son of President Chiang Kai-shek. At present the largest note is -The list will be' examined by CN$100,000—10 Hong Kong conts You'll find hirs aft on the sun deck!" the President before action Is at the present black market rate.--
--Reuter,
fakers.