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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1948, F
Pago, 7
BERLIN CAUTION SIGNALS Tathay Pacific
Attitude One Of Quiet Determination
No Hasty Action Despite Admitted Crisis
London, July 16.
last night raised
British, American and Fronch officials
"caution" signals against predictions of a swift retaliatory action or replies to the Soviet refusal to lift the Berlin blockade.
These officials said: "Whatever is to be done will take days not hours for the three Governments to decide. The Soviet rejection and their chal- lenge of our right to remain in Berlin will take very careful study.
"No one wishes to discount the seriousness of the situation. But we are not going to be panicked into a hasty and ill-considered action.
urgent a matter as Britain and the United States do..
General Lutlul D. Ciny, Ameri- can Military Govemor in Ger
Be many insists that Berlin can supplied by air indefinitely.
can
Bevin Keeps Silent
London, July 15.
The Deputy Prime Minist tor, Mr. Herbert Morrison, told the Housal of Commons today that he does not ballove there la Any
Immadlate
PFORE
pect of a statement on Ger many by the Foreign Minis tar, Mr. Ernest Bevin,
Neither, he and, is it likely that
there can be another for eign affaire debate before the summer recess In July 30,
Mr. Winston Churchill, Op- position leader, sald that he
convinced the was not
the 'House should recce without examin- ing foreign affairs. He Bug- gested there should be definite arrangemente for reparing Parliament should maltors of gravity. supervena. United Preza.
Americans On Soviet Black List
He said: "As long as people in Berlin are denirgus of main- taining their freedom and as long as the people of the three coun- tries providing the suppiles are "The airlift operation is pro- | Western Allles would defy them, desirous of maintaining the sir ceeding
well. It. very
of Simultaneously, General Lucius lift.
be continued Indo course, cannot ga on forever, P. Clay, the United States Mili-Anitely, Yes, sir."
Governor, but the end is by no menna in ta
declared in General Clay sidestepped ques- sight and we are very happy Frankfurt that the air bridge to tions on plans for a West Ger- Berlin would be continued "In- | man Government and emphasis. about the results."
definitely."
ed Air Force decomplishments in The British Cabinet spent
As the British and Americans ie Berlin operation. three hours studying the Soviet stepped up their air Uft opera- I have not yet requested refusal to lift the blockade. Antions, the Soviet organ, "Taegli-equipment for an all-out airlift atmosphere of crisis prevailed. che Rundschau"-a few hours for Berlin." He refused to day The foreign Secretary, Mr. after Russia had rejected the how many additional planes Ernest Bevin, went directly Western demand for an end to which he sold would be all CEE- from the Cabinet meeting to the Berlin blocitado declared it 54 would be put on the airlift. Buckingham Palace to report woul
would be useful
"We are holding our own on to ensure safety to the King.. Anxious crowds to regulate flying in the corridors,
dors, food and are not doing too badly.
London, July 15. waited in, the street outside the sole supply route to the West-I think with the planes now The Soviet Union formally Mr. Attlee's official residence. ern sectors of the city.
here, the tonnage has been better condemned as Imperialists and The British Behind
answer, given by than expected up to this time.” anti-Sovidts. Senator Arthur of the Group Captain H. M. Wright, db- gray old foreign Office in No puty head of the British air runway now under construction les-who will direct American He said the new Tempelhof Vandenberg and Mr. John Dul- 10 Downing Street and
the branch in Berlin, was that if the was only conten:olated as foreign policy if the Repub- Embassies of the United States Russians tried to change. the dy dition to the landing and France, the
fpellities, -"bet" - In next
Asked for
of his licans win in November. Fenssurance of onr of history's greatest polling rules, the Western
would disregard the change.
It will be no surprise to these tical poker games is 'being
Berlth plans, General Clay repiled "We should keep on flying
urtly: "I repetition is heres men, who have long been bitigr
by. Soviet pro- three air corridorssary for emphoals, would gladly denounced It is the West's next bet and down the
ometal the new were which
catablished byly say that I have no intenfion Pagandists, that the Avery indication is
Soviet liplomatic
encyclopedia Weat would raise Instead of quadripartite agreement.
Identides them as enemies of the USSR.
counted.
the scenes
culling the Sovieta. Most of the 'speculation is cen-" tred on another note to the Kremlin-this time much tougher and possibly threatening action.
No Surprise
Allies
These of leaving Berlin."
rules cannot be changed without a new quadripartite agreement.
Russion Tactics
Door Not Slammed?
Tho Russian-licensed "Nacht
But many people in Russia Express" said today that the Rus- and Yugoslavin may be embar- sian reply had not slammed the rassel, let alone confused when "The Russians have been try-door on negotiations. The note they read in the Soviet Govern- Ing to make things awkward for had made at elgar that the Germent publication that the Yugo- the air lift by doing such things man problem could not be settled slav
conditions in Berlin.
"To 'cure
A French Government spokes as flying balloons In the corridors. by restricting settlement to the Kardell. in the Soviet world.
de
Vice Premier, Edward is one at the greatest "Democrats" Kardelj WAS last month nunced by the Cominform with Marshal Tilo as "Trotskylte."
The Soviet encyclopedia says), however, of Kardell: "The ener
man in Paris said that the three So far, theho have had no effect Western Allies are prepared for whatsoever on the air ft."
sick limb, the whole their next move, but he declined
Group Captain Wright said he limb must be treated," the paper to disclose it.
could see no way in which the said. Speaking at a news conference Russians could close the air cor- In Moscow, observers though! on the Soviet Union's note which ridors unless they resorted to the Soviet Government was not rejected Anglo-French-American armed action.
likely to change its stand on Ber- protests against Russian travel
international 'conference "If they raise more balloons, . An implied itussian offer toetic light which Kardelj put up restrictions in Berlin, the spokes-we shall simply go over the top feed Greater Berlin was evident for the cause of peace, security.
ly
made
on the assumption that man said the Russian reply had of them," he said.
mid democracy, his conflating The been about what was expected.
newspaper Teegliche the Western powers would quit and well documented peeches Rundschau,' the organ of the the elty.
und statements made prestige In Boviet authorities here, pro- A British Embassy spokesman sumably anticipating that the said that the Berlin "affair was democratie circles well deserv Russian reply to the Western in the hands of the Foreign Omered."-United Press. powere would be unacceptable, in London. said..."Soviet fight experts",
Mr. Trygve Lle, the Becre- tary-Gen
-Generat of the United Nations, told a press conference In Lake Success today that he #id not expect to be aired for United Nations Intervention in the Berlin caso, but added: That is a matter for the blo powers to decide."
The spokesman said no further considered the fumber sir démarche in Morcow was ·plan- corridors "exccusivaly targa,"
ned at
at present. The corridors covered a con- American air officials said the them last siderable area of the Soviet Zone, Hussions Informed
FIRST JETSTM TO CROSS ATLANTIC
St. Johns, New- A State Department spokesman
foundland, July 15, said today that the Russian reply and "repelted demands by the night that Soviet fighters would
Six Royal Air Force Vampim to the United State note on Ber-Soviet military administration to be conducting manoeuvres in the
keep within the fixed regulations air corridor from venirnetas jet planes were today preparing love been ignored." It would between Berlin and Western to leave Goose Bay Aitfold. therefore, be useful to regulate Germany. This was the largest Labrador, for Montreal and Now Arst det flying in the corridors to ensure number of airfields yet mention York after being the safety,
ed in corridor tinining flights planes to cross the Atlantic from United Press, Router and Asso- Great Britain.. ciated Press.
I had not changed the Ameri- can position in regard to the land blockade of the German capital. No.Change
Meeting Put Off
"There is absolutely no change in the position at this Govern .ment as outlined fa Its note to While Washington, Paris and the Soviet Union," be declared. London considered "Russia's note He said that the United States-calling for four-power talks on was at present consulting with Germany without pre-conditions the
British Bod
and French on what the Millthry Governors of the the next step. would be in the three Western Zones met today negotiations with the Russians on in Frankfurt, but their anticipat the situation in Berlin.
meeting with the 11 ed joint
THE REPLY
COURTEOUS
Paris
15.
A high-ranking Russian poll-West German States Premiery The Russian reply to the tical officer told Berlin Commun- was put off until next week.
ists in
In private night that the
The French delegation was be-notes of the three Western
powers on Berlin was describ Western powers will be forced lieved to be insisting on a comed by the French Foreign Of- to leave Berlin in eight weeks "If mon front of the Allies on cer-
tonight as certain gaps in the blo
in the blockade can
tain points in which the German fice spokesman
At the same utrfield 14 of · the 16 American Lockheed Shooting Stam jets were preparing for their west-cast trip. "As" friends ly gesture, the American pilota had postponed their take-off itaft night and greeted the British filers on arrival Reuter.
GOVERNMENT DEFEATED
The House, adjourned and the Government's resignationis - pected shortly.öciated Press
Salisbury, July 15, The Rhodesian Government be effectively clowed," It was re- counter-proposals depasted from "courteous and non-aggressive
was defeated by 14 votes 13 tably learned today
theme
recent six-power London but essentially negative,
He admitted however offer of bill, Tho
there today on a coinaga and currency The Communists included top agreement.
Prime Minister, Sir ranking officers of the Commun- These points were said to be p might be an implicit 1st-dominated Socialist Unity German plan for the early elec negotiations in the Russian note Godfrey Huggins, made the bill Party and the editors of Berlin's top of a Legislative Parliament Four-power talks without a pro a 'matter of confidence. Communist newspapers.
and a German decision to post-liminary agreement on what basis "Whatever action the Went- pone the re-arrangemenų of these talks were to take place đền Allles may take following state boundaries.
offered no guarantee of success, the receipt or the Russian noto,
the The French Legarded the first sald
spokesman. there can be no change in Rus as an instrument of contralisation, He denied reports that the sian policy regarding Berlin, and believed the second vital to French Government was refer- “Gerinan "const(u- the officer is reported to have make federalism a reality in ring, all West
Germany. The French were sald tional discussions back to the would be a great mistake to not to regard the creation of a Lordon Conference algnatories- interpret the Russian nole as West Germano State as quite an Reuter. meaning that Moscow desires four-power talks in the German problem. If the Western powers want such talks the Soviet Union might agree, but there will be no Russian inluative in the matter. "The real menning of the Rus sian note is that the request for the lifting of the "blockade has been
okid,
It
rejected.
GERMANS REJECT WESTERN STATE
Dusseldorf, July 15:
Complete Soviet control of The North Rhine-Westphalia State Parliament to
Berlli Vial for the Taviot Unionais Vital as the Soviet
sphere
of ' Influence in the
ont and 'ths,quötion"gr:ihb|
of the Dardanslice,"
the "onicar.......
to have
day rejected: the London: Conference recom-
.to set
ons that stops be taken immediately pa German Constituent Assembly
o view to creating a West State, Be The Per
đầu slide the bix Waktech-pows Fapproved, ins and eco-tead the recommendations put intended to create a stave Pastern forward by the Minische Pro-
Gitsin Germany, and that the Europe which it is vital for the sident of the Western zones at retimmentals on :Germany the Eastern Curapord 'Blaign Söylet Union to control: There Coblenz-u work, fico, that a
stomle traffic
can be no question of any relaxa West Garmin ministration spokesman of the non-com- tian our leftoris to shake the with the powers of a governm-unify patiker High Dry attacked Western powers leave Ecrin
blockade coracquently ment be set up and that and the London proposal ist the maintained and certain, gaps are administrative statule" 3. Muhr be blaced under "Internas
the
closed, the Alles will be forcnu pared in place of a constitutiőfonal control ip leave Berlin. Within e
Dr. Friedrich Middelka All parties, excolt2the-Com-Tal A Táše. Wafflperātic}, munlabs, voted in favour. theclared tha Coblana
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