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General Mark Wayne Clark, war-time commander of the American Fifth Army in Italy, and now Commander of the U.B. 81xth Army aroȧ based on Ban Franclaco, is accompanied by Mrs. Clark as they pass Italian Gronadiers dressed in historic uniforms at the entrance to the Clark was awarded the barracks of the Italian First Grenadiers Regiment in Rome. General medal "and Honorem" of the Regiment by its commander, Colonel Renato Perfetti.AP Photo.
WESTERN CIVILISATION AT STAKE, MARSHALL PLAN OFFICIAL WARNS
London, June 16.
Warning that the challenge which faces Western civilisation was one raising the question of the very survival of that civilisation, Mr. Thomas K. Finletter, Marshall Plan chief in Britain, declared here tonight that no nation in the world could handle that challenge alone. Mr. Finletter was speaking, at the Anglo-American
Pilgrims Society dinner in his honour at Lon don's luxury Savoy Hotel, on what he described as this dreadfully dangerous age.
Plan Europe.
Exped
and
at the earliest
Sir Stafford Cripps, British | succeeded in its purpose of pull- Chancellor of the Exchequer, was ing down the burrlers that one of Mr. Finletter's most atten- separated the dollar tive listeners as he outlined the non-dollar areas developments of the Marshall possible moment.
what It meant tu "We may say with confidence that the first year of the Marshall wisdom and plan is a success," he added. pharacter
of the West, and in the particular of Britain and United States, Mr. Finletter said.
needed to
to surmount the chai- lenge to Western civilisation, and to gain the new strength
The
was
greatest
which
would come from surmounting it.
could
A Now Spirit
After saying that the statistics Mr. for 1948 were encouraging, Finletler declared, "The real achievement of the Marshall Plan in its first year is that there new spirit in Europe, the Sterling Area, Canada and the
No nation of the West handle this challenge alone, and all the forces of the West-poll- United States. tical, military and economic-
The return to normal com. must be combined in one grand
petition and
normal re-adjust- policy not only to save that civi
ment of trade channels did not Ilsation but to make the whole
mean trouble, but might well world a docent and safe place to
mean the opposite an increase live
in the overalt volume of trade.
"It is the policy of Congress | and it is our common
in.
The
Marshall Plan
the West's imineriate and most im- portant contribution 10 the economic site of this grand po- licy," he said.
Unification
The first realisable move of the grand polley must be a large measure of unification of the West in the political, military and economie fields.
"If we all remala separate, we will be picked off one by one arut rather soon at that," Mr. Finlet- fer said,
The basis of political and military union must be econo. mic well-being. Full advantage must be taken of opportunities for
mutually beneficial ex. changes on goods and services batween. countries with diffe rent resources and akliis.
international, dealing must
ust be of such a a nature as to eliminute frictions, and to create
a natural cohesion between the
British Commonwealth,, the United States
ates and the other lead- ing countries of the West," Mr. Finletter continued.
It was of the ulmost Im- portance that the Marshall plan
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minus certain vital parts which | deseris of New Mexico have been the Americans rotala under Increased. gentlemen's agreement to supply in the event of urgent necessity,
such as a sudden allack,
The thin trickle of informa- tlon from the United States to Britain concerning the develop ment of atomic weapons la in
Since the end of the war, Bri- danger of drying up altogether.
tain has frequently requested the Public hullabaloo jand hysteria United States to share and share over the alleged leak of atomic allice" all information and develop secreta is now so great here that ments concerning atomic weapons, there is strong pressure from milias was done during hostiles. tary and Congressional groups to clamp down completely on the interchange of atomic Informa tion except in the industrial sphere.
There are mo atomic bombs in Britain. We are Bald to have sono of the apparatus for quick construction of atomic bonists
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Most of these requests have been turned down by the Ameri-
and can authorities,
we have been compelled to proceed inde- pendently with our own research and developments.
There are now 4,000 guards, and five men are necessary to man à single guard-post 24 hours a day all the year round. Most are re- servists or ex-Service men.
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All are crack shots, Some guards have carbines, machine- Runs, armoured-cars, and planes. Everyone has been carefully screened regarding his politica! bellefs.
At this moment there is a whole series of trials and inquiries going on into the alleged lounge atom secrets, mismanagement of the atomic energy programme, and Fire & Marine Agents?--- The Joint Chiefs of Staff, sit asserted Communist conspiracies. in Washington there lo a full- ting in Washington, have dis- played candour and trust in pool-dress inquiry into the steward- David Lilienthal, ing secrets of other weapons, but slip of Mr. whenever the atom bomb has chairman of the Atomic Energy come up for discussion the Ameri-Commission cans have sealed their lips and snapped shut their dispatch-cases, Today Britain's military chiefs are not aware how for the United atom States has developed the bomb, how many bombs there aro in the American stockpile, or how devastating the intest-model bombs are. We are being shut out.
A powerful group hended!
by Senator Bourke Hicken- looper charges incredible mis- management and is demand-
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- Smear Campaign
Today Senator Hickenlooper in-
sisted that the records Or the
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of striped, and stamped "Made in agreements and transactions should
be laid bare. He also demanded
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Washington, June 16. The Acting Secretary Webb, State, Mr. James
and and USA. though the British Mr. Walton Butterworth, direc-Canadian contribution to its de-security data on an unnamed
State tor of the
Deportment velopment was enormous.
number of people connecter with "The public has been conti- the programme, Mr. Lilienthal,
of Bir Ofice of Far Eastern Affairs,
tioned to believe that the welcoming a Joint Congressional
hns branded atom-bomb
Senator ne was (LTL all-inquiry, American invention and is Hickenlooper's attacks as a "smear
campaign. solely an American possession. Scientists of other nations are given no credit whatever. The intention to keep the atom
today
programme
Sources zuk
testifield in a closed session of the House Foreign | Affairs Committee on the Ad- ministration's proposed $150,- 200,000 ECA
for of the Atlantic", he added, "is South Korea. creating a solid Allantic com- Committee
MI. Imunity.
which we must believe Webb and Mr. Butterworth debomb to herself has never been will work out the survival of voted a considerable amount of society in this dreadfully dance-time attempting to allay the yous age.
fears of some coramilleemen who Sir Stafford Crippy Shai that
contend that the
South Britain's problems diri not seem Korean Republic 18 tloomed even- to be growing less,
tually to be engulfed In the Communist ticle in Asia and it would be a waste of money to try to rehabilitate its economy.
"Indeed, they are becoming temporarily greater as the gap tends to widen again due to changing, economic conditions as we emerge from the period of acute world shortages Into a tess Inflationary altuation," added.
Tribute To U.S.
he
Sir Stafford said that the ad- ministration of Marshall Aid was just as important for its success as the programme itself and he paid a tribute to Americn for the understanding way in which this had been curried out,
Britain had been helped and encouraged her own efforts by Mr. Paul Hoffman, the Marshall Plan Administrator, Mr. Averell Harriman, Marshall Plan Roving and by Mr. Fin- Ambassador, and lester, he said.
Mr. John W. Davis, President of the Pilgrim:& of the United States, said in a message to the Society that the American Pil- grims deeply uppreciated the welcome given to Mr. Finletter, purpose their fellow member.
to solve the dollar problem with- in this short period of a little more than four years from the beginning of the Marshall Plan," he said.
Useless and irritating barriers to the free movement of goods,
and
vehicles.
currency persons should be done away with immediately.
Mr. Paul Hoffman also sent # which he said, message, "Credit for Great Britain's rc- covery accomplishments must go to the British people and their Government.
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Calculated Risk
It was
understood that Mr. Webb acknowledged that there was a calculated risk in the Korean programmeO. but ho urged its approval on the basis that every possible effort should be made to save as much torr!- tory as possible from the Com- munists.
that
Mr. Webb and other Ad- ministration officials have ar- knowledged
Korca South could not
withstand an all-out Communist attack from the North but expressed the belier that Russia would hesitate to back the North Korean Commun- ists in such
For a venture. that reason, they assert that the Korean plan has a good chance of luck.United Press.
THIRTY DIE OF HOT WEATHER
New York, June 10. Hot and humid weather In the cati- Eastern United States was mated today to have caused the deaths of 30 people in the past
The
five days of forest fires increase | "In the developing sense of ed in the New England States as goodwill and unity between the the drought continued. Smolting free peoples of Britain and the and fire-making has been banned United States and other free in some woodlands.
"The Marshall Plus, working in concert with the Atlantic Pact and the military programme of the major countries on both sides --Reuter.
peoples of the world, they found The Weather Bureau in Chicago their greatest hope for a more sald that there was no sign of peaceful and prosperous world." | rain to break the dry spell-
Reuter.
Australian Opposition Leader Criticises Immigration Procedure
Burma Army's Estimate Of
Canberra, Juno 16.
The Australian opposition leader, Robert Menzies, today attacked the foolishness of stiff necked insistence on gonoral rules in administering the Australian immigration policy.
Rebel Losses Speaking in the House of Representatives on, the
Rangoon, June 16.
The Burma Army today de- talled rebel casualties during the week-end's fighting in the Yenangyuan-Chauk area from which White PVOs and Com- munists 'retreated hurriedly.
It added that nearly '83,000 rupees believed to be looted cur- rency were recovered from the rebels.
Immigration Amendment Bill and Wartime Refugees' Removal Bill, he declared there was a touch of megalomania about the Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell's second reading. speech.
that
the
Mr. Menzies said opposition supported the national Immigration polley which is pri- marily based on the broad con- siderations. of assimilability of race and not on racial superiority.
tow
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fugees Removal 'BiH, and the clauso by which the Minister glven unfettered discre. tion to deport an' Eng)lahman who came to Australla from. Hong Kong or Bingapors dur«, ing the war and is still here.
According to the Army state- ment, 150 rebels were kliled and 140 captured by government
Mr. Calwell had failed in a forces who also seized large quan-
tilles of orIAN
few cases which attracted. wide and ammunition, attention and had given rise to
He said the clrcumstances motor transport and stores.
damaging misunderstanding be-
which brought these refugees to Australia might never causo him declared attitude was
occur Therefore it seemned an that there is no discretion, but again.
net of folly to Invoke law
to only an inflexible duty to enforce the law of hard and universal force them indiscriminately
and under the Minister's application.
discretionary. con- rule the case of Mrs. Okeefe, the
without Intonastan-born woman married alderation
case. of each to Australian what
added that by In- Mr. Men
Menzion harm sorting
retrospective clauses in could have come to Australia or Ik Immigration policy the the immigration bill and closing
Inopholes found In and her children had been allow.
the High Co. The civil government com-ed to semin, some years or even
Court Judgment on the O'Keefe munique, reported that live rebels permanently, Mr. Manzles asked.
ease, the Minister
the created Impression that he is, engaging 'wara "killed" and several wounded during a four/hoir batila in tha *** Deplorable Title
the singularly unpleasant, pro- Squi Burma Hardhawaddy, dias 11 Mei Manules "criticised - the ecss of victimisation. The debéis tristamāmsocialed Press. -
daptoratie tille of Warlims Rds, was, adjournedesfasonlated. FreeKİ
The statement said that North.
Burma government forces attack ed White PVOs at Wetiet on the Mandalay-Shwebo tallway line, killing two of the enemy,
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stronger than in the United States today. Any political leader whe advocated sharing atomle-bomb secrets with Britain now would risk his career.
The public tem- per is strained and American nerves are Ittery whenever the word atom is mentioned.
The tension is directly associat- ed with the "spy scare" and the Russian menace.
Behind the wrangle, which is leading news here, is a battle be- tween the military and elvillans to determine who shall bo the world's most custodians of the fearsome weapon.
In a melodramatic atmos- phere of missing secrets, van- ished uranium, and alleged Communists and spies, hopes of American co-operation on the development of atomic energy and the interchange of information have gone almost completely.
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