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LONDON, BRIBE · SCANDAL
THE CHINA SAID, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1948.
RUSSIA ATTACKS U.S. PLANS IN THE UN
PROPOSITION FOR IMPORT
OF FUN FAIR EQUIPMENT. The
Franco Allegation Denied
London, November 17.
London, November 17.
1939 Pact May Be Terminated
Paris, Novembar 17.
Soviet Union's United Nations delegate, Mr.
Jacob Malik, alleged tonight that the United States intended to by-pass the Security Council voto.
They would do this, he said, by introducing the pro- blems of Palestine, Greece, the Italian colonies and Korea into the "Little Assembly." Addressing the minor Poli- In recommending the holding of tical Committee, concerned with elections in Southern Korea, and the setting up of a permanent sald: "This was an illegal mea- Interim Committee - "Little sure, an Important political doct- The Under-Secretary of State Assembly"-to work between sion, not even within the pur-
view of the General Assembly. for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Chris- United Nations sessions, Mr. The draft also proposes to topher Mayhew, told the House Malik sald that this WOR
London, November 17.
ut
grant to the Interim Committee
The Judicial Tribunal appointed by Parliament to investigate accusations of corruption of Minis. -tars and Government officials heard today the
testimony of Mr. Jacobs Harris, the proprieto · · of a number of amusement arcades in London. Mr. Harris, a stout grey-haired man, had desired to. obtain licences to import automatic amuse- ment machines from the United States." His negotiations brought him into contact with tho A Foreign Oflice spokesman
agent, Solomon Wulkan, alios Sidney Stanley. todny dismissed Genern. Fran- cisco Franco's reported claim in Keplying to
questions, Mr Selft Auld he and Mr. Belcher of Commons, today that Britain, illegal and unconstitutional at powers to discuss questions re- an interview that British in Harris agreed that Stanley were personal friends. He is considering terminating the tempt to set up an organ inferred by the Security Council tervention alone prevented of mentioned the
the importation name of Mr. discussed
Anglo-Polish agreement of competition to the Security to the General Assembly. understanding with John Belcher, Spanish
amusement machinery with him, Parliamentary
Council, and would lead to the the to
Board the United States "a long time Secretary
and Mr. Belcher had put him on August 25, 1930,
Office A Foreign
pokesman aplitting up of the United Na- to an official who could help him.sald tonight that the 1939 treatytions. ago."
Trade. Mr. Harris udded:
Witness agreed he hid asked was designed to meet a very In the interview, given in Mad- "Mr. Stanley mentioned every-Mr.
Belcher
As it was operated in the past, Ket specific circumstance which now and as conceived for the future, rid to the diplomatic correspon body's name from Mr. Atilee ninusement machinery imported no longer existed. While the tent of the Amerkun
the Interim Committee would be) under the Marshall Plan. Mr. Bel-treaty itself provided for, mutual cher had laughed and said: "The nid in the case of either Britain an offshoot of the General As Marshall Plan? Impossible. Dis- or Poland being attacked by asembly, and therefore not subject
to
the veto, European power, the protocol to the treaty specifically
At the beginning of the debate sald that
Foster the term "European power was this morning, Mr. John
Dulles, the United States dele- to meon Germany.
gate, sald that special care had Board A senior
Since 1939, Polands' frontiers Trade of executive wald he had wearshod
can relations.
magazine, downwards."
ol
be
Newsweek, and be published
Mr. Haris discussed the deal in New York tomorrow, General
Cecil Price, Franco sald that "the British at-with Mr. Francis
London business man. Price told ways interfere in Spanish-Ameri
him that Stanley was "the biggest, villain anhung".
Harels said it The Foreign Offtre spokesman commented: "The British polley was understood that Stanley was to get £10,000 for surrendering lowards General Franco's regime his own unused import quota so in well known, has never been that the
equipment could repeatedly brought from the United States. hidden and has been sinted in public by the Foreign
He denied that there had been Secretary and other responsible
any suggestion of bribery in
the members of the Government."
payment of this num
num. Price had anked him if he thought anyone He said that to the best of heat the Board of Trade was going knowledge there kad πονοι back any question of British in 10 thure of the money. if
had replied that he did not think tervention with the American State Department to prevent #fo Spanish-American Agreement
bean never
because necessary.
had
"This Sort Of Thing"
he could
missed."
Football Pools
of
"Quite Clear"
"Thus, it is placed above the Security Council.
This is in direct controver alon to the Charter, which lays Gown that the Security Coun. eli shalt have pelmary respon. mibility for the maintanance of International peace and secur- |
Mr. Malik also said that the Committee's decisions on Korea
with Germany have changed com- been taken to see that it did not had been very favourable to un
plete y although the new border-ponch
been formally Security line has not yet agreed to by Britalh.
a
the register and falled to find any idence for the Import of goode up to £180,000 in any of the five names by which Stan-chief circumstance which makes This, it is understood, is the
The 1939 treaty inapplicable, Fur- ley was known, of cars from the United States to based on the hypothesis of
Nor could he trace the import her, Article 2 of the treaty was anyone of those names or to Mr. asible attack by "another Euro- Bieber, the London solicitor, (Mr. pean State" on Lithuania, Latvia Alfred Bieber said in evidence and Es'onla-countries which! yesterday that in an alleged phone since 1949 have become part of conversation with the Board of the Soviet Union,--Reuter, Asked for more details about Trade, Stanley was purported to his conversation with Price, Har-have been fold that two cars were Observers in Lonilon believe
way from the United ris quoted Price as saying: "This on their that the Fureign Secretary. Mr. Ernest Bevin, the American Se- the sort of thing you get when States.) cretary of State, Mr. George Mar- shall, and the French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, re- cently agreed in Paris that would be, undesirable le make any move towards changing the existing relations between their nations and Franco Spain Beuter,
Trial Was Violation Of Treaty
'The
a country
In being run by 30:
*** shillings a week railway clerks." suggestion that the United States
£t
Lorlan, November 17.
trial of the treason
former Bulgarian Parliamen- Lary
M Arked he had heard any
Government was insisting on Hri- Any doubts he might had about Stanley were dis-
taln importing token amusement pelled by Mr. Alfred Dieber, machinery Davis said there was the solicitor Who Introduced no proposal of this kind.
ments in connection fun fair equipment.
stated that on
A
on the territory of the Couneli, by the rule that It could not discuss anything on the Council's agenda.
Dismissing this argument, Mr. Malik and that the intention of the Western Powers was to eat up a body not only equal, but actually more powerful than Becurity Council,
He recalled the action of the Interim Committee, boycotted by the Soviet Union, earlier this year
Protests On Ruhr To Be Ignored
Washington, November 17. was made clear in official circles today that the United States will not reverse the Anglo-Ameri- can decision to turn the basic Ruhr industries over to German
French protests..
Americans and their monopolies,
"it is quite clear that the Unit- ed States intends to transfer to the Interim Committee not only
also the Korea, but
Italları colonies, Greece and Palestine.— Reuter.
Cabarets In Danger
Canton, November 18.
The fate of nine dancing halls here is again hanging in the balance.
are still in existance. trustees despite repeated
ed
Early this year they escaped being closed down by pleading The Tribunal then went on to
certain dire hardship for the large them and who drew up decu the allegations concerning Sher-
number of hostesses and other with thei
employees. Now they are facing man's Pools, one of Britain's big-It
extinction again since the Cen- Sir Hartley Shaweress, acting fest football competition concerns.
tral Authorities are reported to for the Crown, put it to Harris Mr. Harry Sherman who also
have asked the local Municipal that the statement he had made took the eath In Jewish fashion,
Government why the dance halls lice had been dictated Sidney Stanley, fu" "the
meeting with police
bud he by, Bieber. Witness denied this amazed at his knowledge of the been
It is further reported that Sie Hartley questioned Harris affairs of Sherman's Pools. Stan-
local authorities have sugg about two brothers named Davis
that the cabarets be closed down ley, when witness had visited his The last protest was delivered They do not agree, however, at the rate of who
of one a were approached to put up Park Lane flat,, had told him of yesterday by the French Am-with the French view that inter-
a month which, £10,000 to be pold in connection
is carried out, the suggestion in would not be would see the end of dance halls with the fun fair equipment pro-his friendship with Mr. Belcher bassador, Henri Bonnet, to the national control
and others.
Acting Secretary of State, Ro- from starting another war.
adequate to prevent Germany
here by August next year. bert Lovett.
Whether the plan will be put The difference between the Officials here show complete
point of view of Britain and the into effect will depend upon the sympathy with the French desire United States on
Central Authorities' reception of the one handt-Reuter. for security
against
possible and France on the other is re- | resurgence of a belligerent Gerarded here as the difference be many, using the Ruhr Industrie for renewed akgression.
tween a scheme of International control and one of international management,
pusition.
"Too Ridiculous"
Witness said he had told the
·
was
Breach Of Control
"I am also sure he mentioned M. Opposition leader, Kosta Lalchev, and eight other brothers that he would put up Mr. Harold Wilson (President of former Deputies violated the 600 of a sum of 12,000 which the Board of Trade) and Mr. Key Works), Shernian peace treaty with Bulgaria, a Stanley
to receive at the (Minister of
added. Pareign Oflice spokesman said very start of the negotiations.
Sir, Hartley: "1 put it to you)
Stanley
knew all about a today.
that this was in fact a confidence!
case In which Sherman's was The trial, which ended in Sofia trick to induce the Davis brothers being prosecuted for a breach 512 Monday, had been wholly to put up £2,000 and that from of the paper control and implied contrary to the spirit of the pence beginning to end you did not in-
that he got his information treaty with Bulgaria and intend to put a penny into it.7" through his friendship with Mr. number of instances also contrary
to the letter of the treaty." The spokesmas asserted
to
Harris: "That is too ridiculous;
them not a contdence i
the British Government was con- addering whether it would take any action under the treaty about the trial.
Lalchey and his colleagues were Convicted of acts of treason, sabotage and anti-Soviet activity Bulgarian regional court. The by n sentences ranged from life to 10) years' imprisonment with fines,
LO
come Into *
Belcher.
Mystery Diamonds
In Garden
The United States and Bel- tain are willing to leave in abeyance the question of owner. ship of the Ruhr Industrian un- til the German people, through n democratic system of govern ment, can decide it.
If
Sudan Election Results
Khartoum, November 17. The Independence Front, which alms at ultimate self- government and Indopondence, They feel, however, that has gained a majority 011 The scheme of international control projected, Sudan Legislative As- could be devised to prevent the Pembly, partial results of the Ruhr Industries engaging, in such first general election in the coun- aggressive practices as the un-try showed today. necessary stockpiling of war ma- Of 46 returns so far, the In- dependence Front has won 33 sents and has the support of n number of independent mem-
There are 05 seats on the As-
The other main Party (ivours
Press.
terlale.
Sherman added: "I thought it was most extraordinary and I did Henry Self, an amuaementinot know where cise he could caterer, said he had bean assed have got the information except proposition to from Mr. Belcher." Stanley told Itaport fun fair equipment. He him that his competitors in the
London, November 18. gathered that £10,000 was to football pool buslitess were, con- Detectives today dug out of a be paid to Stanley
a com tinually seeing Mr. Belcher and suburban garden a mysterious mission for obtaining facilities. agitating against him.
cucho of diamonds valued by "He said they would give Mr. Scotland Yard at £10,000. Personal Friends Belcher £50,000 or £10,000 10
A Sectland Yard spokesman put ine out of business," Sherman declined to confirm or deny Lon- M. Lulchev's being 15 years im prisonment and a fine of 200,000 further into the levs,
he was curious to know how such him that he would see Mr. Bel-gems were believed to be a con- precedent in dconomie history. Union with Egypt. -Associated
cher and try to arrange that Sher. of machinery man's would get their rightful which disappeared while on the
from algnment
South Africa bers of the Socialist Opposition could be brought into the country allocation of paper. to the Bulgarian Fatherland Front so easily when it had inken him
alr three years (Communist) Government-Reu-a long time to get a small amount. The trial was adjourned until way to London by
The diamonds were packed In tins which had been wrapped in cloth, the spokesman said.
tur.
All the defendants were memo
HORTHY TO GO
This would nol involve thr necessity for Ruhr industries be-bers. ng placed under actual Interna- Bonat management, a develop-sembly.
without
Witness suid he decided to odded. Stanley had suggested too newspaper reports that the' ment which would be
hugu
amount
matter
because
Punk | tomorrow,--Reuter. He visited Stanley's flat and got the impression that Stanley was trying to Impress him, "He mentioned names of propio hej know- among them Mr. Attlee, Stafford Cripps, Mr. Belcher Munich, November 17, and Mr. Gibson, and names of a The former Hungarian Regent, let
important industrial
TO AMERICA?
the German
of
ACCUSED MAN DEFIANT
The cloth had rotted away and the men who found the natha think it may have been there from one to three years.
The stones were cut and polish- ed but not mounted.
M. Nikolas Horthy, now living in people."
London, November 17. Upper Davaria, is expected to Sir. Hartley asked witness If According to Warsaw Radio They wore found tn the emigrate to South America with Harris had said that Mr. Belcher six Polish right wing Socialists, garden of a house in 'suburban his wife, daughter in law and and Mr, Glenvil Hall, were to get accused of espionage and plot
Seven Kings. ting to overthrow news Rorgething out of the deal"were modo their final statements to stoner vanished from
tho State. grandson,
Another report was that the the malls agency, DPD, reported tonight-making fortunes out of it."
day to the Warsaw Court which between England and the Con Reuter,
has been trying them since tinent on an unspecified date.-- November 1,
Kazimierz Puzok, described as
Associated Press. the head of the WAN (Freedom, Equality and movement which
Witness: "I don't know."
General
Call For Strike In France
Paris, Novembor 17.
Communist labour leaders today ordered a nation- wide general port and dock strike to begin on Monday.
ing
The strike was called by the the National Assembly that Rus- Communist-controlled Federn-sia and its satellites are foment- and fancing strikes in tion of Ports and Docks after France in a deliberate attempt to its leaders pleaded in vain with wreck the Marshall plan. Christian Pineau, Minister of
The dock strike, coming on Works and Transport, to raise longshoremen's wages.
of
Pineau told: union leaders that, wage increnso is a. malter higher police to be decided by the Government only after careful consideration.
Independence")
WOB
was
banned after the 1947 elections, and for whom a sentence of 13 years imprisonment
demanded, declared he could not be ox- pected to "change his convictiona now at the threshold of the grave."
The other accused their guilt and asked the Court to exercise lenience, the Radio Bald-Router.
ERP Supplies
Held Up
Washington, November 17. Marshall Ald officials estimat-
that admitted ed today
approximately 140.000 tons of recovery sup-
for Europa hnd plles destined piled up at East Coast ports be cause of the dockers strike.
They said shipments totalling 20.000 tona dolly were moving toward the strike-bound North Allantle. ports where all cargoes except coul and grain had been: tied up.
QUEEN LIZZY :
TO SAIL
London, November 17.
Thui for the strike had had
Reuter.
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at the Gato The Cunard White Star, line little effect on any of the 10 the heels of the American dock unnounced tonight, that the Unor Marshall Plan countries, but the strike, will seal off France from Queen Elizabth, whose departure increasing number of enquiries All Marshall plan shipments. for New York has been delayed from European nations "make it These have already been slow-by the United States dock strike, plain some are worried", "they ed down by the refusal of Com-will call on Saturday for New sold. Reuter. munist dockors in some ports to York by way of Haifax, Novia unload coal cargoes.
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