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REACTION TO NEW PACT EMPHASISES EAST-WEST SPLIT
PACIFIC SECURITY PACT?
Ottawa, April 5. The Canadium Government today looked upon the coming Commonwealth conference in London mainly as a prelude to
a full-fledged regional security;
London, Aprit 5. United States Administration leaders in Washing- ton hoped today that the Senate" would give priority to the ratification of the newly signed Atlantic Pact, which comes into › force: imme diately the seven founder nations finally con- firm it.
Early world reaction to the signing emphasised the sharp "East-West" division on the Pact and Moscow Radio renewed its attacks on the "Ih- spirers and organisers of a new war" who would never win support from the "popular masses."
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pact for the South West Pack-While Communists and non-Communists in Europe
London reported that the only
fle.
subject for major discussion when
the Empire slatesanen get together:
India's would be Un April 21 antional status.
British and Comedian quarters Expert that Indi will try to clear away domestic constitutionnal difficulties preparatory to plan- ming a broader role in South West Pacifte diplomacy.
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COLONIAL ADOPTIONS PROPOSAL
London, April 5. Citizenship of Britain and har colonies will be confer Fad on children who are, not British but are adopted by British subjects, 17 How Parliamentary measure comes law.
ba.
The Standing Committes on the Adoption Bill, now be- fore the House of Commons, today y'accepted a Blakes to this effect. S
Mr. Ball Nield, Conserva- tive, who sponsored, the Bill, raid it was proposed, to avoid the adopted child not feeling "quite the Bumera other children"
He added that it was not proposed, that a child who was a British, subjest should lose his British nationality If adopted by foreigners.—
P.l. Divorce Law To Be Scrapped
SENATE COMMITTEE'S DISCUSSION OF PACT
Washington, April 5.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee discussed the North' Atlantic alliancé in a 90-minute closed session today.
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Senator Tom Conally (Democrat, Texas), the Choir- mon, declined to predict when the Treaty would come before the Senate for ratification. President Truman is expectedUnited States Secretary of State. lo send the Treaty to the Mr. Dean Acheson, a few minutes Senate very soon.
after the formal signature of the But there may be some delay Treaty,
to enable him almultaneously, to Presumably, they discussed the present Congress with his pro-integration of the Western Union posals for a foreign military as- defence system into the North sistance programma to imple- Atlantic defence, aystem.Reuter,
ment its purposes,
The Trealy will not come into
operation until it has been ruti-
Bed by the United States, H AMERICAN
tain,
Canada, France, the Nether-
lands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Ratification by the United States will require a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate:
The Truman Administration is anxious for speedy action but the Senate is far behind schedule in its conskleration of „spgial reform "Fale Deal" legislation
PAYMENTS TO CHINA
Washington, April 6.
re-
The State Department ported today that the Treasury has paid out on schedule the untire $125,000,000 appropriated by Congress' for military aid to Nationalist China.
Ex-
fund, authority
During the last week of the
for which pired on April 2, the Treasury pak out $332,664. Congress pro- vlied the fund last year as part $100,000,000 China
underlined their known viewpoints, almost the only leader to "sit on the fence" was Gonerál Charles De Gaulle, who said that the French nation must "for the moment reserve its judg- ment" on the Pact as a whole.
Rome: Some factories in Milon Reuter reported as follows from;
stopped work, and Communists the capitals of the world;
masa demonstration Washington; President Truman organised
Arms Supply The quarters said they are would like the Athostle (uct to at Imola, near Bologna, yester
right
Action by the House of Repre- of WBY in the day in protest against the Fact.
Manila, April 6. prepared to make the best of the be given
where
twp-birtis ¡
Non-Communit
sentatives is not necessary for newspapers
The House of Representatives ratification, but the House will fuet that any Senate, situnion in the
ratifin sald the pnet is the world's best partnership between India and the majority needed for
observers guarantee of peace yet devised. law which has been in foresthorising funds for the provision lart night scrapped the divorce have to approve the Bill au- diplomatiz Commonwealth
vn union, but eveu is preferable
The Communist press called for the prospects unwritten basis
thought here
step toward a third world war. since 1917.
of military supplies to the North strite which might have the effect quick action were not bright,
The .vote
the House Atlantle and other Powers. The Moscow ndio sald Russİn
came as Democratic myosity *The India with Russia, el lining up
signers The Senate, Senator sent four inore
of the continued consuleration of the More Congressional opposition security lender in It is rumoured that
Norway. Denmark proposed new etvil code.
is anticipated to this Bill than pact-italy.
an pact, expected to be parallel with Scott Lacus, would only say to-
to the formal ratification of the the North Atlantic pact, is being day that the Treaty would be de- and Iceland-official protests that The House approved an amend
the treaty
is
Treaty.
The State Department aald the andment kiling the, provision for written by foreign policy expertsbuted tris session.
absolute divorce and providing As soon as the Treaty cures money for military purposes had of the United States, Canada al! While Washington reuelion toned at her
<li Vittorio, italy's only
only fo Giuseppe
Atlantic been paid either to the Chinese for legal
the North separation, which into effect, United Press. Gent Britain,
the Puet goerally tavourable,
be obtained
two Powers will set up a Council of Government or to American some criticism has been voiced, Communist labour boss, branded may
con-member States with Military Government agencies used by the of war" and rounds adultery:
military equip- a "pence of peace to cubinage and an attempt by either Staff Committee to co-ordigute Chinese to buy may be too much (called for
their defence plans and resources. ment for their Governincat committed in advance to arming counternet . D Vittoria, leader spotise on the life of the other.
The House action still has to be
representatives 5,000,000 workers
of the troops. and defendling Western Europe. uf more than
not Major-General All Russian
David in the Confederation of Labour, approved by the Senate.-Ualted Brussela Pact Powers lost
Заг. 57-word spoke to a public gathering last Press.
time yesterday and met with the who headed the joint U.S. - relegated
táry Advisory Group in Nanking. Washington despatch from Tass, night in Taranto,
|said here on March 16 that vir the afterat Soviet news agency.
tually all of the military assis about the sugning of the Atlantic
tance supplied by the $125,000,- Paet to their back pages,
900 fund now is plied up in For- Tass
moso, Chinn not having
ECA CUTS DOWN Ding fears that the the treaty a "net
States
IN KWANGTUNG
Canton. April 0. ECA is reducing the number of construction projects in the Cantom aren.
Moscow:
bald
news-
BARNESSIVE
near
Swedish Doubt Leftist crowds in Imola It arunced that only four of
the signing Foreign ologna, italy. demonstrated;
shouts nine tyke
projets ac berut Ministers male sperches "trying against the
treaty with ontinued. The dykes are around to present the aggressive military and Cuinmunist songs. the West River Delta, 40 to 80 hlor, created by a trenty violating En neutral Sweden, some
niles South C'est
the United Nations statute and doubt of the treaty's effect for An ECA spokesanan said the directed against the USSR and peace was expressed, Stockholm's reason for the move is the short-the countles of National Demo- "Morgentidningen," usually 4
a defensive spokesman for nge of banknotes at the Central cracy, allegedly
the Government, Bank combined with insufficient measure." progress of the projects affected, Russion offelals took the view
"Aa new weapon for peace, -Associated Press,
Cat the speeches contained o the Atlantic pact does not seem Surprises.
Ilkaly to get any other Im. mediate effects but to weaken still more the old United Na-1 tions and to make the cold war still colder."
London, April 5. Elizabeth #21
the
Princess Duke of Edinburgh were guests of Dr. Cheng Tien-hsi, the Chi- nese Ambassador in Luton, at
a dinner at the Embasy tonight. -Reuter.
"War Instigators"
A
Moscow Radio broadcast in Russian said that the "in- spirers and instigators of a new had and never with war never have support fram matter"
the popular
Bradley Calls For Military Aid
New York, April 5.
The United States Army Chief of Staff, General Omar Bradley, tonight called for a military aid programme to strengthen the "ramparts" of Western Europe.
Generaly Bradley said he nations better equipped to work flatly rejected the argument for peace through the United that it would be impossible to Nations." stop Russia from conquering all Europe, and that the United States should eventually lead a counter-attack to liberate the continent.
"11 must be perfectly apparent to the people of the
United
States that we cannot count on friends in Western Europe ir, our; strategy In the event
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Or the $270,000,000 for ccone- mic assistance to China, an esti- mated $54,000,000 remains expended. Congressional
LEN-
action
on Monday authorised its use by 1950, Associated Press.
February, Dr. Herbert Evatt, Australian Minister för External Affairs, opened the session of the United No. tions General Assembly here today.
In his speech, Dr. Evatt said: les have been caused by Great "Unfaltering support for thePower disagreements outside and The newspaper, said the Rus-United Nations and its ideals Indepentient of the United Na-
expected to make must be the watchword of all sians were counter-moves "to advance at an the member nations.”
In no man's land wherever pos- isible.
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Moscow, April 5. of governments
the Sergei Gorbunov, the Sovlet world
with Union's chief flying wolf exter- keep faith increasing pace their positions Dr. Evalt, who is President of
their peoples and the peoples minator, reports a record bag of the Assembly, added: "Every re-
of the world will certainly up-438 shot from his plane. port leaders who strive to help In the last three winters, while presentative here is pledged to
the United Nations and carry flying over the Volga valley, he the view that the United Natioas
Into affect the groat objectivos | killed 730
big grey wolves. is the supreme international body. The Charter
-International provides that all
penge. Inter- United Press. 20 other obligations which individu- national Justice and Internation at nations accept must be subor-
al welfare," dinate to and in accordance with those accepted in the United No- tloris Charter."
newspaper
On the other hand, the Liberal "Dagens
Nyheter called the puet a "stronger infe- guard than any other in modern times." anci urged Sweden to join
The newspaper "Social Deme kralen" in Copenhagen quoted a spokesinan for the Danish Gov- ernment who said the treaty was the "strongest peace world has ever seen."
Among the Foreign Ministers who listened to Dr. Evatt's speech
Mr.
DO YOU KNOW Ernest. Bevin, Mr. YOUR HONG KONG? les had arisen
In the last few years, difficult-were
and often also Dean Acheson, Mr. Halvard Lange factor the suspicion und Inek' of co-opera- (Norway), M. Robert. Schuman and Mr. Lester Pearson (France) (Canada).
M. Andrei Gromyko, making his first appearance at the
"Freedom Sold"
tion. "Nearly nil these difficull-
and endorsed
He
The Conservative Copenhageni "Berlingske Tidende" noted that Worker" spoke of the treaty as United Nations. as chief Deputy both the United States and Den- mark had now departed
a "pact of war, a counter-revolu- Foreign Minister of the Soviet from tion in the interests of big busi-Union, sat among the Soviet re- their traditional neutrality.
the domination under The
entered of presentatives. Communist Copenhagen ess Folk" put this headline Portugal The General added that the s
America, supported by Fascist Just before Dr. Evatt sounded his Atlantic Past not only united over Foreign Minister Rasmus General Franco.
by gavel and took his seat quietly.
Reuter. free
nations commonly Imsan's specch
ech at the signing cere The "Daily Telegraph hon perilled by aggression out also many in Washington: "It these that similar instruments will be hoped
Washington, April 5. the signatories from" the words
freedom was
The United drawn for the Pacific and Medi-
States Air Force fear that a nation which would sold to the
terranean. areas" tunci added: announced today that it is order. bravely resist aggression might in London, the "Times" de "There is no good reason for re-ig 38 additional long-range 38
Ithet! fighting frien diens
clared that "with the failure of
fusing Spain entry into the new bombers and five more 347 high and alone.
freed
find
General Bradley added: "Wes-
of war tern Europe must count on us if survive and we must
dictates that we shall first aban- it is 10
don them to the enemy with a count on Western Europe it we promise of Inter liberation.
are to endure. "Unless
for common de- fence of the existing free world provide for the security of Wes- tern Europe, these people cannot be expected to stake their lives will and the means to resist. on the common cause.”
the United Nations, the At-international brigade organised speed fet bombers. The B36 Is
lantic pact has become the to keep Stalin best-Indeed the only-syalom
of collective security available for the Western countries.” The
newspaper referred 10 the final analysis. Western US, abandonment of isolationist Europe con he saved ply by the tradition as the
American
erican re- Western Europeans. But to save volution-it is nothing less." themselves they must have the
"Times Bold ell -the signers ed "It will be that when the al- nis
will to resist is develop lance is General Bradley was speaking ed partly by possession of the possible to reach agreement about the Atlantic Pact and he nucans-tanks, planes, guns and with the Soviet Union On all went on to say: "Out of an as- partly by the assurance that they matters, which at present sortment of anxious inembers we would be adequately helped in and harass Europe," have created a resolute body of sufficient time."-Neuter,
London's Communist
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out of Paris."-powered with six conventional Keuter and Associated Press. type engines-Reuter.
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