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CONFIRMED
AT AT GENEVA
Geneva, May 8. '.
The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union with 25 Eastern European countries, will be repres- ented at the meeting of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, which opens hare tomorrow.
The Western delegates were tonight wondering whether the Soviet initiative towards calling off the Berlin blockade would be followed at this meeting by indications of important changes in the Soviet and East European econo- - mic policy towards the West.
Averell Harriman,
the, 4. The United States could balance, world United States roving Ambassador greatly help to
Mr.
Melbourne, May 8. Mr. Joseph Chifley, the Aus- tralian Prime Minister, broad- casting on defence research in his weekly "Report To The Nation," sald tonight that cer- toin trials have been carried out who hendit the American delega- policy overseas.
tion arrived here today. He at the juint British and Aus-
the coun-
Australia.
to the Marshall Plan countries, trade by a long-term investment
tralian long-range weapons told reporters that
trles of the Organisation for project at Woomera in Central European Economic Co-operation were anxious to expand trade with the East and hoped that this trade would return to its normai pre-war pattern.
"Good progress is being made although some delays have OC- curred due to materfal and labour shortages," he said.
Mr. Chifley added, "With the
advent of weapons of mass des- truction such atomic bomba, guided misalles and other forms, the need to keep abreast of the times and the efforts required are greater than ever, and the cost is greater.
"It will be apparent,,however, that until these new weapons are proved and brought into use, the ighting services must be ready it need be, to fight with the wea- pony of today."
He concluded, "The objcol in to do work which cannot be un- dertaken in Britain and gradually to extend our efforts in this feld for the bencht of Australlan and British Commonwealth defence, Some important defence, research and development projects which are being carried out cannot be mentioned for security reasons,'
Australia Stating that
had allotted A £33,500,000 to defence research and development, Mr. Chifley added
the
"They want to gel from East food products, particularly grain (which the United States has had to supply these last few years to Europe as an emergency measure), coal, timber and non- ferrous metals,"
Mr. Harriman
Cannot Predict
Questioned by correspondenta an the last point, Mr. Harrimani anid: "It is impossible for thos United States to indicate
-Investment long-range
pro- gramme. I hope that there will be Increasing United States Investments abroad in the years to come. but have # free! economy and the degree to which
we invest depende the opportunities offered to
Our Investors.
on
"It would be fair to ask Euro- "As the Eastern production of pean countries to Indicate what these commotitles increases, we opportunities they can offer to hope that they will be exported investors. It is clear, however, to Western Europe in exchange that to attain an expansion of for the machinery which the world prosperity, it will he West is turning out in ever necessary for the United States: greater quantities."
to become an increasing investor Mr. Harriman added that the abroad. trade pattern developing be- "I believe that this will hap- tween East and West was
not pen, assuming increasingly stable quite the same as before the wor.] conditions." The Eastern demands for heavy France will be represented by capital goods were much greater M. Andre Phillp, former Minis- than pre-war.
ler and Belgium by Baron Henri Key Figure
de Traux de Wardin, a leading of the Ministry of Foreign Russia's policy
omiclat Europe's cn
Trade. chief economic problema will
The other heads of delegations be expounded by M. Amazasp will include M. Wagrum,
chlef Arutlunian, the leading Soviet economic expert. Ho is said to
have been
kay figure In
drawing up the current Go
"The object is that parallel with the building up of an army, navy and air force, we should increase our capacity to undertake defence research and development
vlet five-year plan as part of a
The chief British delegate will co-ordinated plan considered by representatives of be
Mr. Christopher Mayhew, the countries of the British Com- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of monwealth and submitted to the State for Foreign Affairs. Governments concerned."-Reu- Experts from the occupation authorities of the Western zones of Germany will be included in the American, British and French delegations. All Eastern European countries have been in- vited and Tost_ny expected to
represented.
ter.
Guerillas In Greece Concentrate
Athens, May 18.
he
The delegates will be armed
with a 3,000-page report
from
the Secretariat of, the Economic Commission, containing the most thorough survey of Europe's economy ever made.
of the Economic Department of the Danish Foreign Ministry, Dr. In C. Patijn, Director of Holland's Foreign Economic Relations De-
And partment, hagen, Director of the Norwegian Industrial Bank.
M. Anders Fri-
the
Kock, Madame Karen Swedish Minister of State, is the only woman to lead a delegation.
lleuler.
Hanging Of Ganapathy Protested
Princess Caroline Matholde of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Gor- man great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, han become R ahoemaker 10 carri A living for here!! and her six children. She stopped out of Royal circles when sho married a commoner, Pater Bchnirring, test pilot, who was killed in a plane crash in 1944. Photo shows the Royal shoomaker working with hammer, and awi like any village cobbler.
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Church Built By Jap Camp Survivors
London, May 8,
the heart of the English countryside in Hertford- shire a tiny church is being erected as a monu- mont which epitomises British sentiment to- wards the Japanese today.
The church is being built by survivors of Japanese prison camps in honour of those who died in captivity as a monument to their everlasting memory and as a church in the spirit of mercy and forgiveness.
To the vast majority of the public must be made to realise British public, however, the more vividly what the whr
against Japan entailed.
which
ts
No Deep Hatred
war
war against Japan is 'a fading memory. They cannot look on the scars in their blitzed cities
Lord Mancroft was comment- and blame the Japanese in the higon #speech by Mr. C. Paris, May 8, The World Federation of Trade day "Hitler passed this way."
same manner as they say lo- Comyns-Carr KC., chief British The Greek General Staff to
prosecutor at the Japanese Unions has protested to the Unit- day announced that strong con-)
The main points of the surveyed Nations against the "assassina-
But among the veterans of the crimes trials, who stressed that public. must never centrations of guerillas were were:
tlon" in Mulaya of Mr. A. Gana- war in Hong Kong, Malaya and the British .. Europe's production in the pathy, Chairman massing on the Albanian ber-last year has increased beyond Malayan Federation
treatment of there Fan-Burma of the
11 different forget the harsh der in preparation for a possi- all expectations.
is being revived British, Australian and American Trade memory bile Summer drive into Greece.
by the Unions, and Mr. P. Veeransenan, today by the jungle war against soldiers taken prisoner There have so far been no his successor, in a communique 2.
banditry in
Japanese. Unoffelal
in Malaya. sources estimated that
indications of greater 10,000
economic published here today.
In almost every report on the it is possible that there is a more than
rebels were missed along the border near na-
co-operation in Europe, either The communique stated: "The fighting in Malaya today there is greater awareness
of the Jap- tural entry points used by
among the Marshall Plan coun- WETU has learned through the included some comparison with anese misdeeds today than there the
tries or among the members of Press the assassinations by the the war against the Japanese. was during or immediately Italians for their World War II the Eastern European Economic attack on Greece.
Council,
rubber planters man in the street in Britain to- J.
to day harbours no deep hatred. He have feels a deeper resentment of
A General Staff communique
There is as great an obliga said that Greek reconnaissance tion on the United States to solve planes had sighted guerillas pill- its trading surplus problems as ing up large amounts of ammuni- tion and other supplies near the there is on European countries to Albanian border towns of Mour-wipe out their dollar deficit. gant and Pogonlane. These towns
of
May Cut Car Imports
London, May 8.
The British Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has been Informed that South Africa is likely to ban the im ports of all British "built up" cars on July 1, a Society spokesman said here today.
"It naturally affects most of the British manufacturers very con- siderably, as only Vauxhalls and Fords have arrangements. for assembly in that country," the spokesman added.
Mr. Eric Louw, the South Afri- can Minister of Economie Develop- ment and Mining, told the Union Assembly on April 1 that South Africa might have to make a 40 per cent cut in imports from sterling and non-sterling areas in the second half of this year to reduce the Union's adverse trade balanco,
British cura costing more than £600 are already banned from the Union under controls on certain luxury goods imposed last March.
The Society (thas also been in- formed that India will restrict British imports, hitherto on open general licence, beginning on May 20, a Society spokesman announc ed today--Reuter,
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British authorities in Malaya of Commentators paying tribute the Second World War but the ADVENTURE ISLAND"
Gurkha patrol as
his daily e-United Press.
TODAY, PO HING
the Chairman of the Pan-Malayan to the British Federation of Trade Unions, Mr. and in miners seldom omit Ganapathy, hanged on May 4, in recall that most of them the prison of Kuala Lumpur, and suffered Japanese terrorism and more material things affecting! of his successor, Mr. P. Verran imprisonment. schun, slaughtered by a patrol.”
Mr. Verransenan, according to feial policy suggest
Several aspects of British of- a tendency a police statement, was killed to mistil among the general pubile lle about 25 miles North West of rebel prisoners said that about
last week by
awareness of the the important Greek provincial 4,000 guerrilas,
a greater defeated In the he was fleeing with Chinese from conditions of war
the capital of Yanalna
against which had Grammos mountain area, retreat-
a guerilla camp in Negri Sem- Japanese and to stress the hard- been utlacked by the guerillas ed into Albania and joined forces
blian.
The several times in the past.
to offset their setbacks last win-The WFTU had already been in-
ships horne by British prisoners communique continued: The General Staff sialed that ter and spring-United Press.
in Japanese coptivity. formed of the inhuman measures
Marshal Lord Mont. taken by the British authorities
gomery made referenca to and the persecutions ordered by
the Japanese war atrocities In them on the occasion of the co- a recont speech to a provincial] lonial war in Mulaya against the
chamber of commerce. Malayan workers and the repre sentative trade union tion."Reuter.
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