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Tokyo, April 3.
General Douglas MacArthur, thus for- silent ro-
garding Mr. Harold Stassen's proposed "Moc-" Arthur Plan" for Asia, is known to feel that United States assistance to the Far East is as necessary and vital to world peace as tho European recovery programma.
In his public statements and conversations with correspondents, General MacArthur has made it clear that he believes the situation in the Far East today is part of a global situation which should be considered in its entirety in the orientation of American policy. The Supreme Commander believes that frogmentary de cision in disconnected sectors of the worki will not bring people of
the
solution the America desirę,
Reminders
Today
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There is a strong belief here that General MacArthur could be drafted. to co-ordinate. a new
American assistance for Asia, carrying out the duties in addi tion to the job as Suprémé Com- mander for the Allied Powers.
As observerk here see the talk, the first step would be to formus late a prograihme for co-operation between the Far Eastern nation which could· ·Le carried out in connection with whatever Améri- can tesisloste might be forth- coming.
Some quarter believe any as sistance would be of seconder" nature and that the rent value of a new programme would be in developin
working a definite rcheme to get For Eastern coun- tries pulling together in the in- terest. of helping themselves much as possible.
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A bazaur
Creava Land auction, PWD palce, Exhibition of Chinese Calligraphy,
Hotel Ceril, 10 Exhibition of drawings, paintings|
And engravings. Fung Ping San Library 10 am. Larena on Dutch Painting, by the Itev. Fr. T. Ryan, PRO Lae- ture Itoum, 5.30 p.m. Australians and New Zealandera
meeting at Cosmo Clab, fre For this task, many observar discuss
Day arrange-ray, General Mac-Arthur would
be the ideal co-orriinator because emmands confidence and
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Ideal Co-ordination
Society, SCM Post Board respect of the Far Eastern peo-
Reum, 5.30 p.m.
ples. Bridge and Mahjong Drive by:
Wonen Auxilary, HKSPC, Peninin Hotel, T pan. to 10:30 p.m.
Tennis Exhibition maich at HKCC, Chuter Road 4.15
pin.
Coming Events
TOMORROW
11K Rotary Cluds Junghwon, talk on * Oldest railway in the world" by Mr C.S. Johnston, Roof Garten. IK Hotel, 12.36
p.m.
Licensing Board meeting, CSO,
Council Chamber, 4 p.n. Bridge Drive, European YMCA, 8
p.m.
General MacArthur's closest associates are being very cautious in discussing Mr. Stassen's "Mac- Arthur Plan for Asta" and this ta interpreted here a meaning the whole question is under study and
The
Views with general's respect to his particular sugges tion are belog desely re-examin- ert by his advisèrs, The Supreme Co
Commander has made it clear that he considered it would be utterly fallacious to underrate elther China's needs or her importance" and he has sait. "If we embark on a
Keneral policy to bulwark the frontiers of freedom against assaults of Cocktail party by HKFA for political despotisan, one major Singapore Combined Services| Grunder is no less important than Specer X1, HK Hotel, 510 another. and a decisive breach of any will inevitably threaten to WEDNESDAY
engulf all.
General MacArthur Air Commodore A.D. Davis European
-YMCA, that people in the United States 8.45 μm.
because of deep rooled racial and Tue 11 Club meeting Tolbat House, cultural and business ties, are
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to "over-concentrate" on Furope and to "under-emphasise" THURSDAY
happenings in the treas west of Kowloon Rotary Club funcheon, the United States.
Peninsula Hotel, 12.30 p.m.
While General MerAthur does Y's Men Club Juncheon, Roof) not iliing America should concen- Garden, HK Hotel, 12.45.p.m. trate on Europe and put all eggs
FRIDAY
in one bastut, the Allier Supreme Gramophone Recital by Music Commander thinks Americans Group of Sim-British Club, must take care to avoid making European YMCA, 8.45 p.m. too many commitments and must Social Morning, Women's Section, avoid obligations which will con.
stitule European YMCA, 10 am.
ton meat a drain on American rescurces, - United Press.
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SINO-SOVIET TREATY ON SINKIANG READY“.
Shanghai, April 3.
A source with Soviet connections, in an interview with the United Press said today that a new commercial agreement, which the Russians are seeking from the Chinese Government in Sinkiang province, would start the flow of raw materials from China's North Western provinces into Soviet Russia and would result in reduced movement Eastward to coastal consumers and exporters,
The source said that a draft agreement of nego- tiations conducted in Tihwa in Sinklang pro- vince has been completed and submitted to Moscow and Nanking.
reeking ап the would permit joint
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Club.
ON ISSUE OF FRANCO
Washington, April 3,
The U.S. is reported to be avoiding a definite stand on the issue of Franco Spain which is due for consideration by the UN General Assembly.
The cautious attitude was
made' plain by diplomatic au- ? Dat
thorities following a meet-
ing between the Secretary
Life In England
of State, Dean Acheson, and • Mr. A. Hollas, visitih member
members of the American de- of the British Cotton legation to the Assembly..
Control
Board. will address tho. Y's Men's Club at the Roof Garden, Hong
The UN Assembly opens on Kong Hotel, on Thursday at 12.40 Tuesday in New York.
*p.m.
Some delegates indicateley His subject will be "Life in would be happy it the Spanish England today."
question does not came up at On April 14, Mr. Wilfred Wong all at the Assembly. It was put will give a talk on "Air Condi on the UN agenda by Poland. tlaning" and on April 28 Thurs- Hay Mr. J. G. O'Donnell will speak on "Civil Aviation."
The Y's Men's Ladies Night will take place on April 21 at the
The United Nations voted partiol diplomatie boycott of Spain in censuring the Franco regline two yours go. Some Chinese Bankers' Club, Bank of Latin American countries want East Asia Building
to restore Spain to international
good standing anti presumably
they would propose this, should
Poland and other Soviet bloc members pross for stronger action-f against Franço.
MRS: KATHLEEN GRANT DEAD
The death of Mrs. Kathleen
The only official statement of Grant occurred yesterday al
for
1:
the American position was given Inst October by the then Secret- Queen Mary Hospital, where she
treatment had been under ary of State, George Marshall, He said the UN censure resolu- several months.
She was survived by her held by The proceeds of the bazaar with lution in out of date and forecast daughters Mrs. it. Milter (long student of Wah Yan College, go to the Wah Yan Poor Boy's that while the U. S. would not Kong), Mrs. K. Cherry (Sydney) take the lead, this country and Mrs. Merritt (Florida), and the Sacred Heart School, the
wanid approve any move to re-two The sells included the Indis-
grand-paughters und French
to Madrid. and other pensable dart throwing, hoop-la, tuh Ambassadors
grandson. The full 10-member American The funeral will take place to- Catholic institutions at Wah heer quoit, and numerous other
delegation attended the prelim novelties,
day at 6 pm. at the Catholic Yan College, Robinson Road,
A bar on the ground floor pro- | Inary briefing session except for Canetery. yesterday afternoon.
rided soft drinks and ten.
the Assistant Secretary of State, Willard Thorpe, an alternate.
Aside from Spain, they con- years ago. sidered the problem of diapor. **
Convent,
People In Just Wait
Peiping And See
Poiping, China's cultural heart and fabled city of many temples, today is changing in ways which would shock many who have known it in the past.
Mr. Andrew Roth, freelance. American journalist who arrived here on Saturday with his wife, Tilley, aboard the ss. Esang via Tientsin, told the "China Mail" that most of the people in Peiping were still withholding judgment on the new Communist regime..
Foreign
and
correspondents "The students are extreme- ly enthusiastic-decidedly pro- foreign diplomatic representatives "But probably have been made to feel Communist", he said. the middle classes and the more uncomfortable than anyone Foreign cor musses appear to be just wait-else, he continued.
respondents were forbidden to col- ing to see what happens next."
feet or file news and some thought Mr. Roth, who arrived in Pui- their telephone lines had been There was also a auapl. ping a short time before the Con inppe, munists took over, left there about cion that the diplomatic malls of a week ago. He is one of the first cerlain countries might be axamin- foreign journalists to come out of ed secretly. Poiping since the city changed hands.
Vernacular newspaperA "On the whole, we received very become Government organs good treatment", lie declared. and simple.
There were no musa arrests in the city."
"The Communists believe that Though prices sonred sky-high newspapers are not to inform but during the siege, he said. they to tench", the journalist elaborat gradually dropped under
"They are now a powerful Com-ed. munist control til! the cost of liv-instrument for the re-education of
the people." ing became quite cheap. Now it is considerably less expensive to live In Peiping than, for instance, Shanghai,
Food Is Plentiful
have pure
The Communisis, never slow t indoctrinate the people under their control, have not wasted any timể in Peiping. Slogans, parades and mass rallies form a part of every- day life—and a part whose effect already has become obvious.
"There is a great deal of food In all the markets", he said.
Before the Communists arrived, The feeling against foreigh blackmarketeers kept auch a intervention and American aid has strangleholt on supplies of rice grown noticeably in the past few and millet
illot that prices rocketed and weeks. Porhupa the simplest food disappeared. Some people, illustration of this is the following of course, laid in supplies before one offered by Mra. Both, the sieged
for enough months or 10"--and are still coast- American Cigarettes ing along on these. But there
three
that
bribery has decreased, according
Mrs. Grant was matron of the Mental Hospital, where she had served since her arrival here sine
ing of Italy's foreign colonie RUSSIAN FREIGHTER
and the treatment of Indians In Bouth Afrios,
morning for the the Assembly sezgiau.
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4.
Mr. Acheson plans to go New The Russian freighter Poltava, York by
wan benchest plane on
after Tuesday which opening cer-tollision with a British stemmer emonies and may visit later in hear Lyemum last year ånd loft early this year after completing her repairs, arrived yesterilný. He told the group the new At- lontic Pact would discourage ef- The speaker at the European forts to subotage the UN an YMGA Debating and Discussion might well start current that Group on Wednesday April 6th would bring the UN to a high at 8.45. will bự Wing Comma
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DISPUTE OVER CHINA CAUSES ERP DELAY
›Washington, April 3, ...t
A dispute byor aiding China forced the U.S. Senato last night to postpone its final decision on the European aid bill until next week. The squabble over. China was started by Senator William Knowland, California Republican. He wanted to authorise' President Truman to use an estimated US$54,000,000 in unexpended China aid funds to help areas of China thus for not overrun by the Communists. Senator Elbert Thomas, Utah Jexpanded, trade Hefcit
a former Mornion and inflation slowed. He stressed Democrat, missionary to the Orient, ob- peace hopes through unity of the jected strongly. He said adop 19 nations benefiting.
Mr. Hoffman reported that tion of Mr. Knowland's plan would be "an open invitation to about US$50,000,000, of all funds
to remain-enough mob violence on the part of four days at the Economic Co-
lowered
lant about
first
the
hungry Chinese - it might stir operation Administration's up and reopen all the kinds of year spending rates., Congress disorders we are trying to provided US$5,055,000,000 avoid."
nest year. He asked Mr. Kowland to con- He said Europeari exports last sider the position of ald offerings year rose 21 per cent over 1947 in China with tons of food which totals, Industrial production is up were to be denied nearby star- the 1938 levels and--except for ving persons because they were ravaged Germany-Europe is 14 in an area designated Commun- per cent above the pre-war level. lat-dominated.
Associated Press.
"This would cause the worst kind of disorder we have seen,
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appears to be no shortage of food, "During the siege people usat tu nor any danger of one today. accept American cigarottes will- On the surface ilfe goes oningly, even gratefully--after much the same as before Mr. Roth little polite protest, perhaps. But aid, with the Communiata inter-1 offered them time and ngain fering very little in the lives of during the lay more turned dow the people.
time they were down The exact terms of the ori-which are now closed, for local darmerie went underground at the The attitude seemed to be
For one thing, the 19th Gerpolitely, coolly and very firmly, ginul drofi have not been inter-provincial commercial In- time the Communists entered the they just didn't want to be indebt made
public and little
city. is tercourse.
They've threatened to assed in any way to foreigners," known of the details, but the When it was first learned in assinato any Liberala or other source said that in general the January that negotiations were Collaborating with the Com-
Mrs. Roth said that this attitude, agreement calls for a 25-year under way In Tihwa, It was re- munists. This has probably male strongest among the Ral ofeials, extension of the Sino-Soviet ported that the Russians were the Commuista a little nervous", Wan gradually spreading down
Heated Reply aviation pact, giving
agreement
even to shopkeepern.
Mr. Knowland replied" hext-] which he explained, Soviet Union exclusive com- de
Sino-Soviet There's a heavy guard around
ely that the he was repre- development in industrial
Under the mercial airline privileges be mineral
and the hotel whore Marshal Li Chal
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senting California, which resources, tween Sinkiang and Russiarf petroleum,
Including sum, his associates and some of
to Mrs. Roth. She attributed this
Vitally interested in what hap uranium, tron, gold the Red leadors stay. Mr. Roth terminals.
pens in China.. and silver.
Bald.
partly to the Improved, economie
The objections by Mr. Thomas The agreement I also provides At that Ume, General
conditions and partly to the new and Mt. Connally blocked action Chang for granting overland trade Chil-chung, in his capacity a
feeling of importance enjoyed by on the proposal Before Monday,
By roules to the Russians further Commander of the North West of buying and selling and across "information centres to ask any bale after a week-end adjourn the little man. He goes to public when the Senate resumes the de East and South East into areas Area-now in Pelping as head border transactiona not now topped by Soviet pur- of the Government's peace dole-
question that is bothering, him arið
A stock In return for agreeing to thell his grievances are listened to chhang missions. This would gation New to Tihwa to open improved local trade conditions and given consideration. Bribery
dozen amendments DEMONSTRATION open up the Row of cotton and discussions which were carried out the Government was said to have seems to have decreased the Trumani ad-
On the showdon Action......
It appeared other agricultural producte, after his return to Nanking. minitals and other raw materiais Details for drafting the agres-
received promises from ថ possibility of being reported Into Soviet Rusia.
ministration, will get the entire mont Onco
left to technicians, tribesmen, who have long beer investigated increased. Were "In Nussian milla processed
No high
a thorn to the provincial diplomalic officials of
The keypate, of Pelping's new 6,380,000,000 authorisation t plants, the finished goods, ellher goverment took part, I administration
ernment
to abandon their anti-economy, according to Mr. Roth, has asked: Tob attempts to re for culs, būrns, sprains, heel to some extent, would be reim- was sald,
and instep supports. duce it were detented on Friday campaigns ported
mention, it to night West inta, North
In a co-operate It was also reported here that and
a general movement. tion. The object is to stimulate Western provinces for resale in the delay in the departure from the Soviet degotiations for ne
The Russian source. naked traile between the city and the birthday of the fixatile Europeare; easy and painless to was the eve of the frat Eliminates the use of adhésive [Chind."
Moscow, of Ambassador Fu Pink-long-term agreement with the manufactured goods can now free-am, and Paul Hofman, Marshall
eural arous; so that food and Recovery effort to stop Commun-remove Foreign Ministry in Premier Ho be looked upon by tho
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