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THE OHINIA MÁIL, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1948. *
BERLIN: WARNING MUST BE STRONG
by Mr. Roosevelt in the closing I.K.$72.00 (ein of his long rule.
In
nor the State
the
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TERROR IS ON THE RUN
Although
the mop
of the pins showing where murder has Malayan mainland is spotted with
struck in the past two months, Malaya and Singapore Island to day are more united, more pro-
before the munisi-led guerilles opened their British, than terres car algn
Com-terrorism.
The Villages Safe
By ALASTAIR rider, might conveniently order next few months, irut there is a
wor
FORBES
cow.
BRITAIN PAYS SUBSIDY TO ABDULLAH
London, July 27.
them about the While Arab leaders in the Lebanon said Arabs wara ready to resume fighting in the Holy Land un- Jess the principle of stopping Jewish immigra- tien to Palpatine was accepted, Britain has de- cided to hand over to Transjordan the quarter- ly instalment of the British subsidy, which has been withheld because of the Palestino truce. quarterly instalment, which is being paid to Transjordan, amounts to £500,000. It was withheld after falling due on-July-12, because the Holy Land question was still before the
Security Council.
both
a
Russian reply of a kind which The would slam the door and set up
There
are not simply those of a newcomer. They are ed during the past week from a consensus of opinions gather- European ofetals and business- lenders, from British soldiers and men, from Chinese and Malay
By LACHIE McDONALD
For Jungle Forays
foreigh consular observers. criticised details of the way wo Some of these people havo
have handled the situation, but, there is general agreement that we have acted soberly and wisely.
On The Frontier.
Earlier, stronger puallive men-
might have saved some.
property; but they Singapore and
Burea
and
Additional Britiali
troops are coming from Hong Kong, more Federation police are being re- cruited, and hand-picked Malay trickling down from the north to and Gurkha troops, with a num- keep the flames of terrorism ber of young British officers, are flickering throughout Malaya. training af Port Dickson for Jungle ghung
That
the overall picture, and it is even more comforting than the bald outline suggests,
Briefly, Communist plot to add another country
those in South-East Asia stready in pol- tical and racial turmoil has bad- ly misfired.
Rather than hamstringing Bri- lain in Malaya, the half-baked plot has had the opposite effect and strengthened our position here.
There has been a tragic loss of life, and more people will die be-
New Angle
On Berlin
Crisis
The grave international situa-¡washing on the Berlin line." It is aist to a point where they may
Malays attacked by guerillas, who are mostly Chinese, have tion which is now facing us is not absolutely vital that these words and themselves embarked on
not wreaked the usual vengeance one which can be lofd, at the door should not prove
on to have been world war, hot rather than cold,
Malays know these Chinese ning Chinese neighbours. The of Mr. Attlee's Administratión, bluff.
due to lack of sufficient warning although its principal members The case for staying on in on our part.
are victims of the same alien must still share ·ʼn retrospective Berlin in n manner which can It in no! enough to Import and collective responsibility for only be described as "hanging cn American offensive air power to
Nor have those Chinese molest- many of its aspects.
by our eyebrows" has never been Western Europe merely for the
ed by guerillas blamed Mainy If a burden of blame greater a very strong one. An increas-duration of a temporary trists.
Whether Malayn stays united nationalists for their losses. It 24954 than another is to rest upon, one ingly ineffective and Increasingly may perhimps still be possible to and pro-British depends largely
not one shred of evi- (four inca)
man alone, it must rest on one costly presence might well prove introduce entirely fresh bargain how quickly and finally we dence showing, any Afalny sup- who is dead. It will not escape worse than evacuation.
clean up the terrorists. ing points Into the discussion. Or Subscription Rates:
port for recent violence--and the the propagandists of Mr. Dewey's It could be argued that it even to formulate and carry out
Chinese know it. H.K.418.00 campaign that we are today reap-would have been better in certain. yet more costly improvisations on
These views ing the harvest of what was so circumstances to have withdrawn the spot. The Joint Chiefs of HK$30.00 haphazardly and perilously sown
Staff In Washington, before the Chances are that there will be shooting starts in the Berlin eor-many more "incidents" in the For although Mr. Churchill had
their Superfortresses to carry out hard time ahead for the guerillas. so ignored the plan writing on
an atomle bombing excrelse in, the Kremlin walls in his victorious
any, the Ballic. BIRTH
but too short-termed planning of
But we are surely getting very BARTON-To Winnifred Wife of Hitler's door, he was, by 1945, to the accompaniment of much close indeed to the time when we T.M. Barton a daughter Jen fully conscious of the growing explanatory blowing on the pro- must say to the Russians that on nifer Clare on 27th July both Russian danger,
paganda trumpets when Russia the first night when no English- well.
vain he sought to persunde first made plain her determina-mon or American or Frenchman
Soon, nearly all the villages in the late President that a swift tion to refuse to give Germany is lett in Berlin it would be bet mainland will be safe from sud- the settled arear of the Malayan change of political and military anything but Moscow-dictated ter if no Russian slept in Mos-
den attack. strategy might be able to protect ponce treaty.
Russian DIRECT APPROACH post-war Europe from
But if on the dther hand the
The next Our diplomacy must be backed specially
move will be for frained unic equipped appetites, which had already been so-called Battle of Berlin is seen by the utmost sanation of our. The London decision to so greatly sharpened by the as only the latest in a long war military and
Jungle Bighters to stalk the gang- economic strength sters to their hiticouts In the try the direct personal ap-Balkan bonnes-bouches offered which has
must be made clear. hills and destroy them. been going on ever which, it proach to Stalin in an effort and greedily snatched at Teherun slrice Western ald broke the back will be applied not in makeshift
elsewhere.
of the German assault on Russia, fashion in places where we no to British control of the main- Singapore Island, still the key to solve the Berlin erigis will and subsequently
we have been longer retain the initiative, but land, has remained without in- It is not generally denied that a war in which be generally approved. Itt Mr. Churchill had had his way giving ground steadily, then the wherever it hurts most. does not follow that anywe should never have rotired to situation is very merent indeed: we have been so ruinously involve to trouble-makers from the Malayan man land wondering
cident except for well-planned lives Almost all the, wars in which police raids on coastal villages might have let good will come of it: but it jour present positions, leaving an Thon in order win that Is at least worth trying. open invitation to Russian siege battle and it becomes mest im-ed In the past have come about
ir we were only securing our own portant to do so we must be because we failed to worn our Somewhere along the line of our teker outpost in Berlin.
The Singapore police thus fur position at the expense of some take the offensive, enemies that we could and would have held fewer than 100 Chi- extreme but misled Malayan No- prepared to an acceptable compromise No Preparation
We must make it clear beyond best them. If we do not make nese and Indias suspects from tienalists pursuing a legitimalo has to be found. Up to now,
possible doubt that we are fully that clear very soon we may be the several thousands "screened" policy in an illeant manner. it has been under the direct It would be a waste of time to-prepared to enter on the pre-involved in another.
in these raids.
The terrorists have had · time liminary stages of a menace of the Russian block-day to unravel
It will be seen, therefore, that preventive tangled
Meanwhile, Malayan Federa- now to reveal their aims and we in the West stand, at this motion pollee, backed by nde of Berlin that the West- threads of the Berlin story, but
British methods, with the result that the in spite of
ment, in despernte Atomic Exercise ern Powers have had to con-
the strang juridical
need of the troops as well as Gurkha and whole country Is shocked at their points contained in the Russian sider
closest unity. A need first in Malay units, have gone over to brutality. To keep Malaya unit- We must not allow the Russians Europe of that whether new discus-reply it should never be forgotten to exploft our present uncertainty strenuously and so blindly oppos
very unity so the attack on the mainland.
ed and more pro-Bellsh than it sions for the unification of that we are in Berlin as of right and our lack of anything but aed by the Socialists when Mr.
was before the murder campaign, old Germany could possibly be and that our
British residents creation of
say, our opened. The new move will Western German State succeeded purely local determination to re- Churchill first proposed it.
mopping-up must now be speedy rather than preceded the original
and complete. throw the onus back to Rus
the Potsdam Agree- breach of
They also want plans for secur- sia.
ing the Siamese frontier against ment by the Russians. However, Beyond all
Communists and doubt,
plain the most of the moves made in the
thugs Allied determination to send Russian squeeze campaign have in supplies to the western been foreseeable long in advance.
Too little was done at the time. sectors of Berlin will be
to prepare the British er the maintained. If the Russians (German publie for the battle or find difficulty in lifting the to Indoctrinaté blockade as a condition for rights and wrongs. agreeing to talk, it would be Neither in the Foreign Ofice infinitely more difficult for there at any time been a clear Department has the Western representatives appreciation of the speed and In- to sit down with the Rus- Jevitability of Russian moves sions under the weight of westward, either in Berlin or else- sanctions. It is indeed out where. of the question.
exports in
places seemed reluctant to envisago Both sides are therefore dangerously near deadlock, a direct confrontation of each
The Hague, July 27. other's will and power, which
fore the village and plantation A spokesman for the Nether- they have hitherto striven to
stords can be disbünded,
lands Government expressed~ the ordinary Malays and Chinese regret today at the Western avold.
are in this with us: the guerillas, move in banning rall traffic While preserving their guered city.
by killings aimed at disorgants-between their zones and the rights in Berlin to the utmost
Under the 1948
ing the economic life of the coun- Splet zone of Germany. of their power, the Western
of tor, today at his Rhodes Head-iry, have alienated the vast na- alliance with Transjordan, Bri-quarters told 25 Frerich observers jority.
The order increases the ten- slon between the different, zones," Governments have nothing.
tain is bound to "afford finan-going to Palestine that theirs was These ordinary Malays
Afirs and the Foreign has been uneasily con- cial assistance" to an amount "a delicate and dangerous mis-Chinese today are looking to us spokesman said, adding:
Ministry to lose by seeking, without sclous of a lack of over-all strate- to be agreed annually, to enable sion," but that it was a pleasure for deliverance from terrorism. commitment, to know more gle
"Not only does It hamper recl- planning in London and King Abdullah to precisely what the Russians Washington, and it is clear that Article 3 of the treaty, defining of Arab truce violations before us a tremendous boost. Disorders Govlet zone, but it alto does not
to. work for world carry out
The Jews submitted 60 charges thorities heted so firmly has given tween the Netheral cargo be-
peace.
The fact that the British au- procul trade in have in mind about the scope the Russians have felt it. Now the mutual aid obligations. the Security Council, while
the in the neighbouring Dutch East contribute to the settlement of many. The three Western possess all the means at their dis- der Cadogan, British representa were deliberating on a protest to wary of new rulers. They know side can help to solve the problem Germany. If the Foreign Ministers have al-posal to put into effect their ex- tive to the United Nations, said the Council over the Ave, Britons us and they fear the little they it will be happy to do so."
the British made the Malays and Chinese Nothierlands Government from her ways said that they were threat open for discussions. They Western Allies from Bettin. That tion of payment of the subsidy in Jerusalem on July 10-Heu-now seeking power,
the Britain would review the ques-seized by the Irgun Zval Leumi thus far know of the gangsters The Dutch have a trade pact doubtless believe that the sixt that threat successfully do ment became due.
is to say that the weapons
to re- when the next quartorly instal-ter.
with the Soviet zona, mainly for prospects are poor. The last not, or are scarcely likely to, exist
exchange of bulk goods irans. meeting of the Council of on t
When this date arrived, the
ported by seaways. A certain Ho Tself. spot in 'Berila
queqtion of renewing the Pales-
part of this la machinery and Foreign Ministers broke down A lot of big words have been tine truce was still being discuss-
electrie and chemical products when neither side was ready used which may have falsely led ed by the Council, and Britain
APPOINTMENT
Recent terrorism here has had from the Soviet zone. The Dutch another unexpected to accept the word of the many ordinary people to believe consequently postponed a decision
result too. export industrial diamond"; chemi "could hang out our on the payment.
London, July 27. It has drawn closer together the cal products, tyres and fresh fish other, and, since then the
The King has approved the Chinese and Malay communities, to the Russian zone, and this Since TransJordan accepted the divisions had hardened even
appointment of Blir Security Council order of July 15, Charles Benthall as a member pore's and the inatland popula- new Westem step, the spokesman Edward which form the bulk of Singa- trade will be hampered by te before the Russians imposed Arab resistance, and their therefore decided to fulfil her ob- School of Oriental and Africa
extending the truce, Britain of the the blockade. Certainly no forces inside the city ignor- gations under her treaty with Studies, University of London, In
governing body of the onE.
indicated-Associated Press. talks can succeed unless Mred the most elementary con- Molotov modifies his earlier ventions of civilised be- Delicate And Dangorous Robertson Murray, whose
succession to Sir Alexander demands, Nevertheless, the haviour. Haganah forcibly Western Powers are correct occupied buildings flying the que, the United Nations Media-Associated Press. in making the preliminary flag of the United Nations; inquiry, though they will Irgun Zvai Leumi kidnapped certainly remain unalierably British employees who were firm in Berlin. It is for the courageous enough to stay Russians to show whether, on at their posts for the bene in the face of Western deft of all the inhabitants qf termination, they will pur-Jerusalem, and is still hold- sue a course with incalculing them on a charge of es- able dangers for Europe. plonage. Espionage against
whom? Kidnapped Britons
According to the resolution of the General Studiously pursuing Assembly, which the pro course towards the Security visional Government :qf Council and the United Israel accepts as the basis of Nations mediator, Countís
existence, Jerusalem Bernadotte, which has been should be'
under inter- technically correct, the Jews national control. The Jewish have cleverly exploited the authorities, either because political and military mis- they are determined to takes of Arabs to secure 'ad-assert their claims. vantages that the Congral Jerusalem, or because they In his conclusions, however, commendations to the Italian De- Assembly did not intend fear to thwart the sinister the Russian them to enfoy. On the pre forces of the Irgun Zvai limited himself to stressing the
representative patios Conference in London.
Ta work was milod to ascer text of self-defence against L'ount, Hover ignored the re-suitability for self-government taining facts about the conditions an Arab attack that was presentations of the British of the Zones. The Commission of life and the wishes of the local never pressed home, they Gonul General have reduced the territory of chairman of the Truce Comference of Foreign Ministers Alming demand for inde and the presented its report to fit Con- podations. In Cyrenaica, the Commission reported, there is an Arab Palestine to the Nablus, mission, and have contented alscussing the future of these in avid Idris El Renusal, the Deputies in London, who prepondence under the leadership of Tulkatm-Jonin triangle and themselves with negotiating colonies. the prea south of Bethlehem, for the possession of the kid-
* religious head of the Bonusal and have not hesitated to napped men' so that they can The Commission's report con- There WAX condemn all Arab attempts stage the farce of a trial tained no citimate of the period jority demand for to redress the baland
Whatever the three zones of Libya-Cyreanalca, Both these provinces are under
thought nectary in any of the pendence
Skomffläktation.
nasty draught in the corridors but rulhously expensive air-lift along which the well-organised brings life to the infortunatel German pawns within the belea-
Lack of Planning
One
treaty
Bül
of four-Power talks on Ger- tend that the Russians do not the Security Counell, Sir Alexan- 10 violations
would be simply idle to pre-. On May 27 speaking before Syrians charged the Jews with Indies, Stam, and Burma have problems in
"flagrant aggression.
advantage of the
ed refusal of Araba
ther
the
that we
to eviet
ovor
Transjordan. '
&nd
term
Meanwhile, Count Folke Berna-of office expires on August 31,-
الروم
LIBYA NOT READY FOR
SELF-GOVERNMENT
The British, French and United States representa-
London, July 27.
tives on the four-power Commission investigat- ang Italy's former colonies in Africa have re- ported that none of the three Zones of Libya is politically ready for salf-government, Although he did not say so in the general con- clusions, the Russian representative concurred in the separate sections of the report dealing! with the three Zones individually that the ter ritories are so far unripe for self government.
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