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Paris, December 7.
Delegates to the United Nations Assembly today vigorously criticised the prosent session in Paris.
Representatives of both East and West joined in con- demning what the Soviet delegate called an impossible way of working.
PEOPLE OF ASIA UNEASY
•
Paris, December 6. Mr. Vijaya Pandit. India's chief delegate to the United Nations, told Reuter today af- ter her last appearance at the General Assembly that the people of Asia are very uneasy at the way the United Nations is functioning.
"After experiencing the fajiure of Western diplomaey twice in
La generation, they do not wish to be the victims of the same sort of failure for the third time.'
Mrs. Parulit satel that the pro- ple of indin feel there is ille possibility of peace and security in the world white the delegates to the General Assembly allow personal issues to take precedenee over principles,
"The present Assembly com- pares very unfavourably with the two previous Assemblies I have attended. itseerus
to me that
this year we have permitted our- selves ta sink to the level of per- zonalities stestend of keeping our
yes
worki OR
Issues," Mrs. Pandit elded.--Beuter.
40 Mines To Close Down
Edinburgh. December 6. The Scottish National Union of Mineworkers announced to- day 11 collieries will be closed in the first six months of next year as the first of three stages ma concentration plan for the Tel: 25310 closure of 40 Scottish collieries
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which are either worked out or are being worked uneconomie- ally.
The second phase will cover
The General Assembly voted | by 43-13, with iwa abstenilons, to
Adjourn on Saturday night and! meet again in New York on April 1 to clean up its unfinished basi- FLCSA.
The vote cane after five hours of self-criticism, during which delegules, ridiculed themselves and one another for failing to com plete their work in three and a half months. About one-third of the items an the Assembly's | agenla ngaht have not been toucheil. Delegate
after delegate strode to the rostrum
the great theatre of the Palais de Chaillot to describe this ression na “half-
baked, talkie talkie, a disgrace. clap-trop, too much talk and too little action.”
Russin's Andrei Vyahbisky, joined in the general flagellation, saying:
Perpetual Motion
"There is some kind of per petual motion here. This is an impossible way of working.”
It is estimated that the New York session will cont US$350.000 un last five weeks. Britain's Minister of State, Mr. Hector Ma Neil, angrily predicted
that the session would Inst much longer when delegates found themsrives in the shining light of American newspaper publicity.
to
The vole ignored the_Steering Committee's recommendation begin the second part of this set-
sion In New York on Februars Drikain, anxious to dispose of Italy's former colonies, fought bitterly to keep this session going until Christrans if necessary complete its work.
Russin wanted to let all items wait until the next regular ses- sion in December-Unicel Press.
Britain
London, December 7. Uruguay: has contracted to ship 34,000 tons of meat to Britain during the year, and. ing next
February 17, the Ministry of Food raporta.
Asked it tha HOURS of Commons 10 pubilah the terms of the -contract, Dr. Edith Bummerskill, Parlin. mentary Becretary to the Ministry of Food said: “Whan Wo bre negotiating with different countries for meat as we are today, it is not wise and not good business to co- veal to the world what wa are buying." Associated Presa.
No Use At All As A Husband
Loudon, December 7.
Vincent Writer
Shecan's divorced wife still thinks he is wonderful fellow, but she will not marry him again be cause writers have no time for marriage.
Pretty Mrs. Sheend, the former Forbes-Robertson, said yes- terday "He asked me, and said
ILO.
She married the globe-trotting American reporter in Vienna years age when she was 20 and he was 36, They were divorced hi Reno two years ago,
Reds Won't Recognise Elections In Berlin
Berlin, December 6.
The Soviet authorities in Garmony will ighare the to- sules of the West Berlin municipal olection, which thoy regard as illegal and which will have no effect on Søvlet policy in the city. Political circles close to the Soviet military authori-
ties here reported this today.
Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, played a leading and outspoken Soviet Commander-In-Chief, was part in the anti-Communist and reported by these ciretes to have | anti-Russian campaign, and had stated that the eléction results not attempted cripmise, as might prove an additional obstacle they alleged lenders of the other to an agreement on the currency two parties had been prone to do. and trde problemas of Berlin.
Libernt Democrats: 214,224
Victoria
Crisis Is Over
Melbourne, December 0. Victoria State's Cabinet crisis, one of the most sensa- tional in the State's History. ended tonight 'with the forma-. A leading member of the Com- The German news service,
all-Liberal Ad- munist-dominated Socialist Unily DENA, reported that the officinition of an
Thé ministration.
new Ad- Party was quoted as saying that final results of all districts were the elections would alter in no
Social Democrats: 838,100 (84.4 ministration will be sworn in way the efforts of his parly to ex- | per cent).
tomorrow. tend the authority of the Enstern Christian Democrat Union: 238,- The new Cabinet was formed Magistrat under the new Eastern 400 (10.4 per cent).
after negotiations
broko
down Mayor, Herr Fritz Ebert, to the
between the Liberalund Country of Berlin, Whole
parties on the construction of a (10.1 per cent), The Soviet sector Eastern Ma-
new Coalition Cabftet. gistrat tonight declared itself the only legal Administration in the press capital. Its
department stated: "Nobody else is entitled to carry out oficial functions."
statement denounced yes- The terday's elections as farclent and Fraudulently carried out under armed terror. It appealed to the population of Berlin to end the frivolous game of the dividers of Berlin unity.
Total electorate: 1,500,575. Total electorate: 1,580,575. Total votes cast: 1,300,072, Spoiled votes: 37,150, Voting percentage: 80.2 cent.
A
Fair Elöction
British offiolat
The crisis arose over criliciam of the settlement by Mr. T. Holl-
Both
way, the Liberal Premier, of an
strike per essential services
traché unions Country Party Coalition
statement
supported the
and the Liberal;
settlement, but Hollway accused Sir Albert Dunstan, the Country Party aald tonight that 12 Allied in leader, of intriguing against and spection teams reported yester.obstructing the work of the Gov- day's Berlin elections were car. crnment. ried out in a fair and democra-
While inviting the Country. Coalition, tle manner and fully in accord-
Party to join a new ance with election regulations. the Premier refused to accept Sir Albert Dunstan as a inember. Western observers, commenting
The newly-elected Western City The Liberals hold 20 seats in the on the election results, said the
had lost Assembly will hold its first meet Legislative Assembly, the Coun- nearly half its supporters in West to Suhr, the chairman, said to- Party 30-Reuter. Socialist Unity Party
Vesting in the middle of January, Dr.try Party 20 and the Labour
Soviet Loss
Berth since the municipal elec- "He is a great friend, but just tions of October, 1946. Then, 02 no use at all as a husband." per cent of the electorate voted Sheean stopped in London on and more than 13 per cent of the his way to India to woo his votes cast in the Western sectors former wife and to propose. Be-fell to the Socialist Unity Party. forehand he was optimistic, may- in marriage was not out of the question,
He left Claridge's Hotel carly yesterday moming to catch his India-bound plane without com- ment on the rejection of his suit.
Associated Press.
FREE MEN WON'T FORGET EXAMPLE
Berlin, December 6.
cellieries to be closed in the German men and women who voted against Com-
second six months of next year and the third stage those to be closed in 1850, Thirty-four
of the pits
fre
closing because of exhaustion
and six for economic reasons.
Miners from these 40 collieries | will be free to transfer to other
collieries. Reuter,
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munism have set an example which will not be forgotten free mon. The United States troop com- "The Soviet Union alone is to mander (Colonel Frank low-blame for the daily sight of the ley), said this today.
agod and very young searching in the streets for bits of food. So pleased was the American You have rejected false premises coinmandent that be sued of heat and food from the savage Corinat proclamation. warmly hands which imposed this cruel praising the Germans for voting blockade. in the city elections despite Bus- sian threats and pressure. He said srid the American Military Government could not promise Berliners any
immediate im- provement in their conditions because of the Russian starva- tion-blockade.
"Until the Soviets change their present heartless policies, you must be prepared for continued sacrifices," said Colonel Howley,
served
your future. You
up
"In voting, you have pre- stake In the have won your right to be in the world of free men and women." Berlin workers followed their stinging rebuke Russia
to and Communism by forcing Com- munist Hons Witte 10 resign from the Board of Directors of the great BEWAG electric power organisation.-United Press.
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night. Its first action would be to elect a new Magistrat.
Dr. Suhr anid seats would be allotted in the new body - to, 79: Social Democrats. 24 Christian Democrats and 18 Liberal Demo- According to these observers | crats, If all those who voted for the "Eleven members of the Social-
in 1948 Bocialist Unity Party
Ist had abstained, this time, the total participation in the poll would have been less than 80 per cont.
That fact that more than 80 per cent of the total plectorale veted proved that nearly half the former supporters of the Socialist Unity Party Ignored the Com- munist boycott appeals and vated for the Western partics.
MR. BEVIN BACK
AT WORK
London, 'December 7. The Foreign Secretary; Mr. Unity Party will still be en-Ernest Bevin, returned to his desk titled to sit in the City Assembly yesterday after a month's holiday: for the Soviet sector con-He will review International af- stituencies," he stated. They are fairs in the House of Commons not, however, exported
to take later in the week.-Associated
Press. their seats-Reuter.
It was presumed that most of the former Communist votes went to the Social Democratic Party. This in part was believed to have necounted for the Social Demo-The cratle landsilde, which gave this party more than 64 per cent of the total vote, and a clear major- Ity in the City Assembly.
Final Results
Social Democratic leaders 10- day ascribed their overwhelming victory to the fact that they had
Dr. Bunche In Tel Aviv
ve-
Tel Aviv, December G Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting Palestine Mediator, told porters here today that he hop- ed an armistice would be en- forced in Palestine before the United Nations Conelllation Commission arrives.
HIROHITO STIRS DIET CRITICS
Tokyo, December 7.
Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representativas domanded Government invest- igation into a message of friendship sent by Emperor Hirohito to President Truman.
The message was carried by the Chief Prosecutor, Joseph B. Keenan, upon his recent return) to Washington from Tokyo,
Upon the initiative of a Social-' ist and a Communist, the Com- mittee voted to requira Govern- ment investigation of newspaper reports at Hibhito had reluved to Mr. Truman his determination to foster the closest and most cor- dial relationship with the United States.
It
Heartburn?
I'll tel
you what
to de
atatement This
given war verbally to Mr. Koanan düring a lengthy audience proceding the Prosecutor's departure. was the same kind of generality the Emperor has voiced beford. Bull Toshinki Wado, a member of the Social Democratic Party. contended in the Committee that the statement implied that the He declined to state whether Emperor alone has the preroga-
with le would co-operato
the tive of conducting diplomatic af- | mesta and indigestion pains. I recom- Commission in пл advisory faire,
capacity. Dr. Bunche said that! Wacta also criticised the Em- his recent discussions in Cairi, peror's promise us a constitution- Annan and Tel Aviv révolved al mor
monarch to do all he can to on the Security Council's discus- foster development of Democracy sion of the Palestine problem, at Japan,
an
TRAM STRIKÉ
the conversion of the truce İntai The Socialist legislator said this
armistice and the political would Exceed the Emperor's posi problems of a peace settlement | tion is a symbol of Stato-Asso.
clated Press. Dr. Bunche lunched with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel. A United Nations-press officer said the acting Medlatór would fly to Haild later today. He would, leavo tomorrow for Paris where he is expected to stay until December 11 before returning to the United States.
It was believed the Conciliation Chronisilde on Palestino would' then take over.—Reulor,
Brussels, December 7. Almost the whole interurban network of Belgium was idțe yei- torday because at a 24-hour strike for more money. Many frams in- side the cities wore also strike- bound-Associated Press.
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