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What are the Russians up to in Berlin? The background to the Wrangle between Russia and the Western Powers is explained in this article.
BERLIN WAR
NEVRES
OF
NEW FRENCH CABINET MEETS ON VITAL ISSUE
Paris, September 5.
The new French Government of Premier Robert Schuman held its first moeting tonight and or- dered the immediato payment of a cost of liv- Ingi Borrus of 2,500 France to millions of French worker.
now
The bonus was ordered paid to
KARENS TAKE CONTROL
The struggle for Berlin, which [Militariam" have for three years of the capitalist-imperialists," is between foreign powers rather prevented or deterred some UZ But in Berlin there is reason-
The action came soon after thin German partles, a tho these men from offering their able hope that months of nerve struggle of Communism for Ger-services to the new regime. No war will wear down the morale M. Schuman formed his many. It will not close with a one can feel very enthusiastic of the little man until he turns Cubinct of France's three mid- Moscow Agreement. The most about laws which deprive people the democratic majority in the die parties, and presented it to HK$18,00 that can be expected is a post of their jobs and widows of their city parliament into a Commun- President Vincent Auridi. H.K.$38,00
Donement of the
*pressure.
pensions and direct skilled brainsist majority. There are al pre- Formation of the Government HK$72.00
The enpital in their target, and into unskilled labour, because sent 49 per cent. Social Demo- ended period of eight days in, it is the only plete of Germany they were members of the Nazi crats, 24 per cent. Christian which France has been without g that the Soviet can win for Com-Party. The onus of proving ne Democrats, 9 per cent. Liberals governing body. munism without going to
as and war, guilty knowledge or intent has a querulous minority of 10 The three western zones are lain with them, and the jury per cent. Socialist-Unity—the ormly in the grip as the British, panels, which tried them have viet-sponsored parUnit the So-
except agricultural workers and American and French, zone
crapt to chylloyees of the state. The bonus elled highly smelled
of party intrigue the Communiain havo corruption.
camouflage themselves.
was understood to be a sum to on Prome, the insurgent held
miles The City Assembly meets in be paid rotroactively for
northwest of The city 200 The
was the Soviet sector, which exposes months of July and August Hangoon,
overshadowed every deputy who goes to his "It also was understood that the today by the situation in the seat to blandishments, as Well as Govertiment was 'considering Terasserim Division, to the threats. Add the blatdishments establishing a monthly wage in-cast of Rangoon, where Karens range from coals and food parcela crease of 1,500 Franes starting have taken control of the two for the family to offers of safe with September.
rall towns of Moulmein, and - Jobs in the coming Soviet re-
Thaton. gime for Germany,
manders, and a glance at elee students of Prague have
tion results shows that the Com- munists
mual can never hope either tor n working majority, or even conlition in the eight provin- | HAMILTON--With great happi.cial Governments of Western ness Kathleen and Owen 441 Germany. They have six out of nounce the arrival of their sUF) ninety seats in the Hessian Diet, Clive, burn at the Queen Mary eight out of 188 in the Bavarian Hospital on 8th, September, 1948. Parliament. Until February they had two ministers in the cubinet of North Rhine Westphalia, but Premier Arnold flung them out beenuse they openly accused any Germans working in the Frank- fort Economie Administration of country being traitors to their ant working to split Germany in two
BERLIN
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for 1vo
n
Phown us that there in auch thing as healthy patriotism; but the students of Western Germany have been treated to three years of political
kindergarten with strong doses of Secialiam applied ad nauseum by the British Con- Irol Commission. This chicanery
lesa atmosphere. zone has succumbed to cold re- volütion.
virtually all categories of workers
Demands Mar Thus, within 12 hours of its
Rangoon. September 5. The Government's offensive
The Prome cffensive has be- bogged down
Distraught Germats who have fled from the authoritarian So-formation, the Cabinet look steps come temporarily By Ian Colvin
cialism of the Soviet zone crown to meet the demands of labour breause of the monsoon, but re- into the city of refuge, that is unions and Left Wing political ports on Thursday said that the
pariles
for cost of living wage town was almost completely sur- and intellectual tutelage, will have Berlth and infect the panic,, hope- The Soylut
increases, to be reduced if youth is to gain
ruunded by Government units. Five members of the Socialist Foreign observers here were any heart for its struggle against Communism. Hitherto Mr. Bevin
Party are among the. 14. Ministers not surprised at the develop- and nine Secretaries of State by ments: The Karens have been de- has pinned his hopes on the Bri- The Nerve War
M. Schuman, Withdrawal of sup- munding separate State for tish zone. Social Democrats, Dr.
Waller Ulbricht, the 'grimfaced' port by the Socialists had caused sume time, and it was natural that Kurt Schumacher and the trade
the the downfall of M. Schuman's certain Karen elements should urtions; but these people are in Communist decretary of
Commühist Socialist-Unity party, drst codlition government and the take the opportunity of Burma's fnet Marxists too. They may knows that it might mean war to Cabinet of his successor, Raulcal insurrection to try to secure their approve of Communism; they can
demands, certainly not claim a monopoly try to expel the Western Allies Socialist Andre Marie.
from of democracy in Germany.
Berlin by force; but nerve M. Bchuman, hfenifer of the 'Po- Movement warfare is excellent for his elec
Republican lecular Fifth Column tlon propagande. A hostile So-
optimism So- (MRP), showed little viet occupying Power and 'a hos-over the outlook. After he and his the colleagues had conferred with
It was thought that Govern. ment diroles.kiight be préparod to view the Karane' claim syön - pathetically, provided it was restricted to a reasonable árés. Karen forces who have been
themselves
a the most likely prospect. months, and the malevolent Rei- of quadripartite Government and tle City Assembly would set President Auriol for half an house nghting the insurgents on several
over
The Threat
why
be maintained
were
Greek Crisis Said Due
BLOCKADE The world, through pain- ful experience, has learned to insulate itself against an excess of optimism. Time and again, over the last two
Max Reimatın, ME tall, years, the representatives of deure like a Dickens Christmas
ghost, evidently got the the Big Four have assembled to attack their mutual differ orders from the Comintern, for he refused to define to the ences and all observers-hop-Frankfort Economic Councils ed that each meeting was the previous remark that those who
Western turning-point
Germany when peace served
were traitors.
Chairman Kochler would begin to outweigh war moved his Busperinton
The struggle for Berlin, capital On each occasion the hope mann left the Frankfort Stock capital-to-be of a united Ger- Western Alles the most awk- has been dashed.
is the Battle for Germany, wird kind of problems. A Com-He sald Exchange Hall, where the. Econo-many,
The birth of this government fronts have proved If the proximity of Soviet.bay-munist capital of Germany call- It is against such a buck-mie Counell of 104 sils, in a con-
the toughest, and-most...---- onets makes the democrats of ing to the Ruhr miners to strike has been ardous. Let us hope that among elderable uproar. ground that the conferences
Frankfort squeamish, there inntil the Western Allies consent the energy put in action for its loyal of the Government forces. of the military governors for
why they should every reason
on Soviet consiliution will
During the war, they to reitilte Germany
staunchly pro-British-Reuter. In Berlin which terms Germany must be consider- There are now too many Ger- inspire terror
and there is Cabinet Make-up ed, and even were it not al- man fugitives from new Poland, can be at any moment surround intern In German af the Com- for the pursuit of its acts."
und too many of the 16,000,000ed by enough Soviet divisions to taunism by itself is not suf- vera and the Socialists make up| evidence that, if the appeal of Radical Socialists, MRP mem- ready evident that there are Germans in the Soviet zune who "arrest" the British, American dificulties
military ad- the Cabinet, along with oria 'In- interpreta-Kave crossed the zonal frontiers and French brigades garrisoning flelent, the Soviet tion of the Moscow direc-and told their 48,000,000 com- the elly.
ministration is prepared to spon dependent. Reconstruction Minis- Western lives, a high optimism would patriots
Germany
"National Front" fighting In the Western Zones the Com-But in National" Germany undeter Rene Coty. be an unwarranted luxury. Eastern
has
done to munists are perforce organising for "a
The Socialists, who abandoned for there 'ever as a small, highly-trained fifth Soviet control.
Athens, September 3. On the other hand, it repre- to be a
the a Communist
skilled in column, triumph
After three years of skirmish because of disagreement with wrecker
The possibility of a Govern- tactics, dislocation of transport, Ing with the Western Powers (to them over wage and price control ment crisis loomed today as party sents un advance. After 78 the ballot boxes of Bizonin.
word). Russia is days of blockade in Berlin, Yet the leaders of the Frank-espionage on the Anglo-American use Stalin's discussions are now proceed fort Economic Council are still forces, and in the day of recken-looking for a new ideology with policies, hold several key posts lenders were at odds over the dealing with fiscal and labour selection of the personnel for a and
Germans. Inspire apprehensive of nervous
of their lag, the nnnihilation of political which
matters.
Greek delegation to the United ing with a view to its ter- role the cheap gibe of traitors opponents who wit be shot un National-Socialism is dead, long
These include the Ministries of Nations.. mination. The four military does affect them, but not because reactionaries, militarist, hirelings live National-Communism!
Finance, Labour and Commerce The Right Wing Populist governors have now met five it touches their conscience. It is
and the Secretaryship of Civil leader, M. Constantine Tsaldaris, ¡Service. 1lmes, obviously, as, the re-velled threat that if a Russlan
was understood to be insisting sult of developments at the forward into Western Germany, offensive carries -Communism
M. Schumán wBI hold the upon the leadership of the de Foreign Ministry In addition to legation in view of his positiun Moscow conferences, which they will swing in the gallows
the Premiership. Since he held as Foreign Minister. are still in being, and while for having solight to stem the
the Foreign Ministry under M.
The Liberal leader, M. Sopho- nothing has been said direct- | lide.
Maric no major change in cles Venizelos, was pressing for France's foreign policies are In-
Liberal
porty representation while Premier Themistocles '90- dicated
M. Marie was named Vice-foulis, tlso a leading Liberal, in- Premier and head of the French dicated that he would participate delegation to the United Nations only an a, del gallon chief, „General Assembly, convéning In M. Venizelos demanded Paris on September 21 Asso-Liberals to withdraw from the clated Press.
present coalition Government in- less they are represented in the UN group.
Meanwhile
constructed.
what Cosm
Mediocrities
an
in
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10
RUSSIA ASKS FOR TALKS ON COLONIES
London, September 6.
asked the United States, Great Britain and France to convene a Big Four Foreign Minis- tors' conference on Italy's pro-vär colonios ko- fore September 15.
CUBAN CITÝ
IN REBELLION.
NO DEATHS IN QUANTAS CRASH
the
ly about the nature of the events at Moscow which These West German deputies prompted the delegation of know that Grent Britain and Radio Moscow today said that Russia had formally a preliminary task to Berlin, America would once more win they can reasonably be re- in the end; but it is the interim they worry about. There is little doubt that the Soviet armles It is apparent, for instance, could push directly as far as the that Moscow insisted that Rhine, and the
Frankfort de nothing could be done about putles are not such fanatical
The broadcast said the Soviet to the United Nations General
a flurry of 24-hour the Berlin blockade until a opponents of Communism that
Ambassadors in Washington, Assembly, which meets in Paris
token strikes were scheduled for next week in Athens and Tracus satisfactory arrangement had they will ignore that entirely.
Calbarion, Cuba, Their mood in expressed in London and Paris, delivered on September 21:
The Deputies of, the Big Four three been made
Govern- about currency their choice of
by gas, rubber, textue and paper (economic notes to the
September 5, Council werd unable to agree 'on control, and
The city of Caibariah is in re-workers.-United Press. the problem Prime Minister of the Bizones. ments on Saturday, saying:
disposition of Italy's African ter- Ho
Government ritories. The Hermann Puender, an
Soviet which arose out of the cir-Under Secretary in the Bruening deems it necessary, prior to ex-ference, the Deputies submitted aernment because it says, the Gove After iponths or con-bellion against the Cuban Gov- culation of the Western Deutsche Mark in the Ger- and Ineffective a man as could the falian)
of 1931, and as mild piration of terms envisaged Government
in divided report to their respective rnment has falled to meet ie Detice treaty on Coverilments on August 31. demands for a modern sewne man capital has been atred. be found for the Herculean task September 15, to consider in the
ved streets. paved At the Ind meeting of the system and
Singapore, September 6. Police Ministers' Council the Deputies, Mr. Georgi Zarubin of
and soldiers patrolled All 14 passengers and the crow On the other sideas binted of cleansing the. Bizonal stables Foreign
Big Four
the city at by Mr. Bevin-the West of selfishness, incompetence and question of former Italian colon- Rush, proposed
and forced some citizens of seven escaped uninjured to- the order
established by meeting to debato the lasuc. to sweep the streets. Calphlen day when an Australian flying ern Powers insisted that the corruption. The kind of men who fes in
would show both energy
boat Quantas Airlines crashed the peace treaty." currency issue was not inffiness still stand aside, blding Unless the
Colonies question However, the proposal was not has been placed under curfew.
conaldered in formal call for A
In Cuba, municipal improve- and sank on taking of at Sour- surmountable as long as their time.
has been decided by the Big Four
meeting.
ment for most cities are handled abaya, Java. there were adequate guaran-
The diréralt was on its way The Allled "Laws of Liberation by mid-September, the treaty re-
Britain is responsible for main by the Central Government National Socinilam
quires that the issue be referred 'taining order tees
frotn for Western
from Sydney to Britain Reuter. in the Colonies Associated Press. Pover
until their final position is de- rights in their sectors of Ber-
elded. lin. The Berlin conferences: have run up against obstacles but there has been no sug- gestion of a breakdown, from which may be inferred that no questions of policy are in- volved, that the instructions, to the military governors re- quired merely the working out of the technical means
of carrying out an exchange,
in Moscow.
and
and
TROUBLE LOOMING
IN IRAN ?
Washington, September 4,
The report of the Deputies was secret because Britain kopt feared is publication might cause widespread rigting among the natives of the Colonies.United 'Fress.
US Waiting. Washington, September 5. . America la awaiting a formal proposal from 'Moscow before, de- elding its attitude to the sugges withdrew the flon that a meating of the Big
Mounting Soviet pressure on Iran may be brought to the United Nations' attention according to diplomatic sources.
They said that the usual Rus-pressure, Russia
of concessions already agreed stan badgering of its southern Red Army's troops from the Nor. Four Foreign Ministers be held to neighbour has reached propor- thern Iranian province of Azer-discuss the disposition of the for- Conjecture along these tions of "concerted campaign."
baijan early In 1946. The case mor Italian Coiggesting for
'An * Informal- lines is offered by those who "It is believed that the US will however, is still on the Council's
the
a meeting before September Moscow never for such a Soviet jugenda as have been following develop-heltona pefore the United Nations mally acknowledged the removal stop news agency, and Moscow
15 was reported
ried by Tase, the Rut- ments closely and there is but that the Unjtell. States and of the troops.
of fo Radlo en Friday, attributed the no reason to suppose that It 4ther United Nallons members Among the Indications is very wide of the truth are understood to be prepared to creased tension as seen here were suggestion to Mr. George Zaru And it squares with what support any action Iran feels Intensification of Radio Mos-blo. the Russlan
attacks on the Teheran London, or old, "Ulat "Mr. little is known about the work necessary to cope with the "ser-
lotis situation.” the Moscow conferees, Under the Becurity Council's which patises until the Ber -
of
cow
Government which it described
by
B
Ambassador. in
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Paris, September 5,
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Russian as "romotionery"
the proposal and charged Zarubin made that it was permitting the the Foreign Ministers Deputies lin Governors report back.. settlement of this very sharp
country to be
turned into nesting in London Amociated "armed American camp"
Press Some hope therefore is dispute may be accompanied. The noticeable withdrawal of justifled. If, as seems pos- by an agreement on a busts Soviet omcers from Iran which sible, the Kremlin haa pass- for a new effort to solve the preceded the announcement ed the word to Sukolovský | Whole German problem. ⠀⠀⠀ the clandenstine radio that to find a means of accom- If the Moscow communique "tree Government of Azerbaijan”
formed. modation, a means will be when it comes contains that will be recalled that Russia Hendrick, won the Facts, Bicycle The Belgian cyclist, Albert found. As one commentatör news, the tension of the last unsuccesfully sought to obtain put it, no major difference of three months may be regard permission, for exploitation d kilometre distance in the record tace today, covering the 1,182- Interpretation can possibly ed as having resulted in tan-Azerbaijan's rich all Hobbit time of 41 hours 36 minutes and arise unless one side, or the gible good. On the other other is cooking a rupturë. Hand, If the Kremlin is work
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