THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1949.
ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS
NOT STRAINED, TRUMAN SAYS
"
THIS IS BRITAIN'S: POSITION
Washington, January 13.
The British Ambassador, Bir Oliver Franks, made, these four points when he
Truman' to SRW Proefdent
day:
1. Britain regards the Jowa as the aggressors in the pre- sont photo of the Palestine war.
2. Britain feels that unless, the Jews and Arabf get‚ a' aattioment. the security. tranquility and peace, of the Middle East will remain up- set with results that can only benent-Compuntem,
3. Britain with regard a
Jowlsh attack On the soa port
of Akaba "or
Red
on
any other part of Tranajor. dan, as an attack on itself.
now that King Abdulia
invoked
Jordan
treaty.
the
Anglo-Tram
mutual-defence
4. Britain doce not intend to suspend the precautionary measures it has taken in the This includes conflict area.
the alerting of naval units in Enot Mediterranean basss, despatch of British troops to Akata and placing of RAF airfields in the Suez Canal zone of Egypt on a war pre- paredness baris).—Associated
press.
Liberal Peer Dies In Paris
Paris, January 13. Lord Derwent, Liberal Mem- ber of the House of Lords, died in a Paris hospital last night.
He was taken on his way home from Switzerland.
Lord Derwent, who was 49 years old, was a former diplomat, He had been an honorary at- Lache at Warsaw, Brussels, Mad- rid and Berne. He was also a poet and author under the pen name of George Vandon.
His engagement in Senoritni
Carmen Gandarlijas, doughter of the Secretary to the Chilean
Embassy in London, was
nounced in November.
an-
Elis first wife died at Berne in
Washington, Jonuary 13.
President Truman denied today that relations bo-
tween
the United States and Britain are strained as a result of the developments in Palestine.
The President, who had exchanged views with the British Ambassador, Sir Oliver Franks, on Palestine questions earlier today, was asked to comment on the most recent developments, including the shooting down of five Royal Air Force plones by Israell fighters in the Pales tine-Egyptian frontier..
hours after
The President turned nside He had talked to the President most questions, but he empha- and had not lett any note with tically denied reports that the him. They had exchanged views, The fact that the Ambassador British planes were sent out at
Interview the request of the United States should have had an to hivestigate allegations that with Mr. Truman at his own re- Isrnell forces bad invaded est less than 24
ais
conference
besterday with Egypt
the acting Secretary of State. Mr. Robert Lovett, may be Inter- preted fo
to mean that the British Government desires Governmen
assurances from Mr. Truman himself that no change in the United States, policy on Palestine, either actual or
President Truman was then Aited whether he thinks that relations States and Britain are strained as between the United
there developments.
he and, cin-
the of are not."
shaking his head.
He referred all other questions about the United States' foreign policy on Palestine to the state ement made by Dr. Philip Jessup,
representing the United States at:
Paris meeting of the Security Council on November 20,
Growing Rift
Sir Oliver Franks, the British Ambassador, earlier today saw President Trumaa in an effort to bridge what regarded
is
in
| Washington us a growing rift between the British and Ameri- ean policies on Palestine.
con
Typist Bride An Offence
Capetown, January 13,
The Bamangwato tribe of Bechuanaland has warned its Chief Designate, Seretse Kha- ma, at present in London, to' renounce his bride, 'a London typist aged 24, and return to assume the leadership of the tribb.
Marooned 23 Days
Penzance, January 13. Two fighthouse keepers were refloved by tug today after being marooned for 23 days on Wolf Rock; aðlight, house eight miles Bouth West of Land's End,
The two keepers were __mona___the_worse-top", their long waiting. The lighthouse maintains reserve, of, sup. pitis sufflalent for two months.
Rough-tras and guten had rella? stopped all · provious attempts-Reuter.
Blonde At White House
Failing this, he will lose his Washington, January 13, right of accession to the chief-
A young blonde sat on Pre- lainship.
The tribe's ultimatum will go picked off her
sident Truman's desk today. cow-country into effect after Seretse, aged 27, a former low student at Oxford boots, pulled a gun and took a University. completes his law playful head on the chief execu- student at Oxford University, tive. completes his law studies in Lon-
Tho bloride, attired in colourful don and, takes his final examina-
end-of Lions towards the
this Westem costume, is Linda. Brown
of San Antonio, Texas. year.
Mr. Truman contemplated, which The Johannesburg Afrikaans.
was not at all when the reports disturbed
bosutiful might affect Anglo-American co- newspaper operation in bringing about peace that the tribe feels the Seretse young lady dangled her stocking-
broken his and stability in the Middle East. has
with ed feet over the side of his desk.
Secret at them by marrying a European Nor were
Service men without consultation nad permis- worried about the way she pulled sion.
a gun on America's most protect- According to the newspaper, ed man.
the memorandum
Linda is four years old today. conveying tribe's decision to the British She visited the President in hor Government, says that bringing role of poster girl for the annual
• European wife to Bechuana March of Dimes to benefit the of Infantile land will cause tribal disunity nation's foundation and unrest-fleuter.
paralysis-United Press.
Officiale in Washington that the Ambassador aught from the President a full and
up-to-date explanation of the American policy towards Pafos. tina and an authoritativa am- piification of the recent Unite States Government representa- tion to Britain,
and Egypt Jarnei.
Not Correct
Sir Oliver refused Lo com-
Officials in the Capitol, the that he "got tough" in pressu
ment when asked about, reporta
firmed London reports
Ambassador, an instructions Britain's views on Mr. Truman. from Mr. Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, gave the fullest possible explanation of the British Palestine policy in relation to the wider problem of otability and security in the whole. Middle East. After his-half-hour_talk with President Truman, Oliver
Sir
told reporters that he had given the President the views of the British Government on the Pales- Ime situation.
Transvaler
contract
America Approved British Flights
British officials said that the Unitext States has made two calls for restrahit. The, first was when Sir Oliver Informed, the United | States Government Jast
week At that British troops were moving inte Transjordan's port of Akaba.
The officials
added that it is
not correct, therefore, to regard the British troops movements as having been made in deflance of
London, January 13. Foreign Office spokesman reaffirmad tonight that the account of the Anglo-American dis- cussions on Jewish incursions into ́Egypt, issued earlier in the day by the Foreign Office, is accurate.-
A
the American appeals for res-This reaffirmation followed a denial in Washington
traint.-Reuter,
British Task Is
A Major One
London, January 13.
1941. She was Comiesse Cabine One of Britain's major tasks' in 1949 will be to ex-
of the
Czaykowska, daughter of General Illesco, & former Chief General Staff of the Rumanian) Army.
pond her exports to hard currency markets,
United States, particularly the Argentina, Bolgium and Switzerland,
Canada,
by the State Department spokesman, Mr. Michael McDermott, that the United States Government had requested Britain to investi- gate Jewish troop movements on the Egyptian side of the Palestine frontier, The Foreign Office statement] had said that both the British and United States diplomats in discussions at the State Depart-| ment had recognised the need for Investigation of the position in the Sinai peninsula as the Israelf authorities had refused access to United Nations obser-
After her death at Derne In
Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancel- ! a new peak in October at a vers. 1941, Lord Derwent -returned to Britain
lor of the Exchequer, said this level 27 per cent above the end joined the
1945 monthly average. served today. he
Civilian
RAF
which In
from 1942 to 1944.
It was an illness involving lung trouble and pneumonia that sent him to Switzerland to recuperate, -Reuter.
Another Qne Gets Away
There is still need for great
effort but the country is on the
means
Jurger
output por
A Foreign Office apokesman sald Britain la antisfied with Dr. Buncho's assurance that all Jaraujt, forcos have now boon withdrawn from Egyptian, ter- ritory.
Diplomatic sources said tonight that the Foreign Office statement did not claim that the United, States had requested Britain toʻ Reliable diplomatle sources in undertake the reconnalisance. London said today that the, re-; At the same time, British quar- employment at the cent, British
air reconnaissance is consider that the facts clear end of 1940 stood at the record sights over the Sinal peninsula ly show that the United States right path, the path that really level of 19,200,000.
district of Egypt, in the course of knew that the British investi does lead to the summit, he told No significant further Increase wit
which Пус Royal Air Force antions were taking place and a press conference.
can be counted on as a
encouraged the British Govern- The apparent visible adverse of increasing the volume of in-planes were shot down by Israeli bulance for December is £26,-dustrial production, and the eme forces, were undertaken with the ment to supply information,
野 believed in diplomatic ,000,000,
decrease
It is of £2-plusts hus shifted to methods of knowledge and approval of the
United States Government.
here quarters
that 200,000 compared with Novem- Focuring a
Sir Oliver The Foreign Omce statement Franks made it clear to President ber und the lowest for
head-Reuter. any
issued today said Britain under- Truman that Mr. Ernest Bevin month since January, 1947,
took the flights on her own res- will be forced to inform the Bri
pecise informatish public of the extent to which ponsibility, tion as to the fact and extent of American policy had supported POPE'S MESSAGE the Israell Incursion into Egypt and encouraged the recent British
Vatican City, January 13.
the investigations into the military The Pope will broadcast a radio United Nations, whose observers situation near
the Egyptian- Albert Bartha, a Jormer war Calling minister in two Hungarian 10 earn
dollars, Sir Stafford said: the Congress at Call, Colombia, at cabinets, including that of the "We cannot and should not ex- 11.00 a.m. on the last day, Janu- BECOME A MEM-
pect the United States to bear ary 36. now exiled Premier Ference
the whole burden of reconstruc-: About 30,000
BER OF THE reached
people Nagy, has
Western
are'ex- iion and recovery."
perled to attend the four-day HONG KONG. Austria after fleeing from Hun-
The Indax of all Industrial Congress which opens on January AUTOMOBILE production in "Britain reached 20--Reuter.
ASSOCIATION V
NOW!
The apparent visible adverse intance for the whole year is £432,000,000, more
ore than four- Usually reliable sources re-seventhy of which Decurred in
Vienna, January 13.
half of the year.
пу
was unobtainable from
parted tonight that General the first tos still greater efforts message to the Apostolle Eucharis- hud 'been excluded from the area. Palestine border.Reuter,
gary.
After bolag warned by friends that the Budapest political police were about to arrest him, the General was reported to have entered Austria illegally four days ago.
In 1940 Bariha took over the War Ministry in the coalition cabinet of Smallholders' Party Premier Nagy, who submitted his resignation by telephone from Switzerland in May 1947, after the Russians had accused him of plotting treason.
General Barthe and three other ministers lost their cabinet sents in March, 1947, the War Minister being accused of hold- pro-Western views-Reu-
ing
ter,
MYSTERY VISIT. TO GERMANY":
Frankfurt, - January. 13..........
A German DENA news agency despatch from Madrid reports | that three Important Spanish alr officials today flew to Wies- baden, in the American Zone of Germany, in a special aircraft at their disposal by the United States Embassy in Madrid: The agency gave the names of the officials as Senor de Daragar, the Spanish ·Under-Secretary for Air; Colortal Satòria" of the Gen- eral Staff of the Spanish Air Director of the Spanish "CAMA" Farco and Senor. Kindelan, Air Company-Router.
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