Juliana's Copper Wedding
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1949.
DON
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Netherlanders held a parade at 80ozidijk, Holland, recently to mark the Copper Wedding Prince (122 year of Queen Juliana, and Prince Bernhard. Photo shows, (left to right): Cernhard; a nurse holding young Princess Marijke: Princess trene; Princess Beatrix: Princess Margriet; and Queen Juliana-AP Photo.
LORD AMMON RESIGNS
GOVT POSTS; BREAK IN STRIKE POSSIBLE
Socialist Indicts India Reds
Bombay, July 21. Asoka Mehta, Indian labour Iruder and Socialist Party Exe- cutive. charged the Indian Communist Party today with following a policy of "rule or ruin."
It s interview with Reuter
he described Communist strategy in tutta as "all-out opposion- the more violent the better-not merely to the Nehril
Govern- Government
ment but to
lo every
that demurs against India's link- up with the Soviet blue".
one
Mr. Melila, who is regarded as
of India's foremost
Leftist intellectuals. Indicted the Com- munist Party leader, Mr. B. 7. Ranadive
understood to (now
have gone underground) us un
ent of the Kremin
London, July 21.
Lord Ammon, 76-year-old Chairman of the Nation- al Dock Labour Board who called the British Government crazy when it repudiated a Board "ultimatum" to striking London dockers, to- night agreed to resign his two Government posts.
Lord Ammon received a request from the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, that he should give up the two posts-chief Government Whip in the House of Lords and a titular post as Captain of the Gentlemen At Arms in the Royal Household.
Lord Ammon told reporters that the Prime Minister's
I
letter said the request for his rasignation had nothing to do with hit post as Chairman of the Dock Labour Board, supreme advisory body for Britain's Post workers.
Lord Ammu|| added. "I tease has been made," Mr. Chur- not believe that and I have told hill added.
Davies, Naming o, I think
Mr. Harry the Prime Minister
an popular in the flause, but President of the Canadian Sen- Canadian any resignation men's Union, as sending 501
citizen trying to stir up trouble, sini shed no tears."
The Prime Minister as 13 Mr. Isaacs sald that no case fo:
bren Lord Ammonprosecution had
But the men he hat in mind from the Chairmanship of Board, whose sunfden back-to- were being carefully watched. work order to 15,000 idle dock- ers in the partly paralysed Port
Eehind hlin towers the mighty power to dismis
shadow of the Kremlin,"
Mchta declared.
Mr.
***
arrant
"To Ranadive line of tremism, disruption and sectarianism is The official- Stalin-line.
Intolerance
"The Kremlin tolerates nei- ther friends nor enemies, only unswerving followers."
He added deviation
and not unofter death.
of London provoked a middle of the night repudiation from the Government yesterday.
The Ministry .of Transport tonight claimed
a substantial improvement In
at the docks.
the position
Mr. Mehta added that Com. ago, 113 ships were idle. Singe
passing then 33 ships have sailed. W28
muniam
through
had won
founel.
Meanwhile, Mr. Davies him- self has Troved a statament promising that he would give n mass meeting of dockers 10- morrow a proposal which he bellevad would immediately end the dispute
Earlier today Mr. Davies had keen rem A statement said that only 23
rehuffed by the Canadian idle and that this Shipowners' representatives here that the slightest ships were
TU when he tried to approach them damnation number would be further means
tomorrow. disced
Elchit
with days
new peace plan he and fur other Gonadian strike lead- er had put to the executives of unions British trade
dock mainly concerned in the stoppage, But the Canadian Gnera refused to se him, de- sharing that it would serve no useful purpose
today
14
Under Fire
Harfler today the Government caine under strong fire in Parlin ment over its handling cf the dispute. Opposition leaders press- ing tor Ap
it to
the
DIARY
The Philadelphia Story
tools, precision instruments, stuck- thes, and publishing.
When I drove into Philadel-, radios, tyres, rugs, cigars, machine, phin the clock on the City Hall said aive to 11. Actually it was in the a quarter past three afternoon.
The official I'd arranged to mech at 5 pan. turned up at half past When we ordered drinks the waiter took 15 minutes to get
Garbage collection is inx and lethargle and there must be more outdoor toilets here than in any British Industrial town.
well-run Philadelphia isn't a city. Sue Americans call it the alekest city in the land, for its politits are as Enzelly UN rivers.
Philadelphia gave the world ice- crenin. Mothers' Day, the Satur day Evening Post, and the The claration of Independence. It feels it still has plenty to give..
Certainly it is lavish with its information, I walked into the this leisurely offices of the Philadelphia Bulletin I remarked on -altitude towards US and then talked to some of the staff. Philadelphian said: "Well, it's all der it-that-the-recession is ultitles and run by ward leaders.
Sales are down, employment is Al prezent there's a campaign"
be --this musi only time-therr's plenty of it."
This is a snap sumring of Philadelphia's dullooft, hede, and manner..
them.
and
from
It's a elly of slow pace restrained guit, it doesn't hurry, hustle, or rush excitedly place to pince. After New York it's as sleepy and tranquil og m village.
fir sone ways it's the most Eng- Nah, of American cities. The dewalks are called pavements: there are three cricket lemus; Soccer is played in winter; many men wear Homburg hats, th gilaed set ride to hoads in hunt ing pink,
Houses First
Philadelphia belteves in under- statement, the soft voice the im-
Il avoid portance of tradition.
giant blocks of flats whenever possible, and prefers to live in the tens of thousands of private houses which dot. The handsome suburbs.
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down, back tending is down.
Local bunkers preillet 4,000,000 Idle in the nation by the year's end. Money is drying up in the shops, even in Wammakers. the massive department store which dominates Broad street, shadowing the eccentric arcbi- Lecture of the City Hall, topped by a precarious statue of William Pen
No Jitters
aver-
Admitting the shup, news- papermen explait, however, that Philadelphia hasn't yet been had- ly hit 11 hasn't got Manhaltan'a
istors or Wall-street's blues,
Most of its contraets are long ferm and it is still tuning out the stul, relying on other hands and eitles to sell it.
Its people are well paid, and the average weekly comings, despite firings or maybe because of them, are above 1940's.
The elty is preparert for trouble experts to weather it for and better than New York, of which it professes to be emtemplious I actually is rather jealosis,
The city looks English with its
So BETTO, mug street, banks and tistimanee houses, its Wern squares, and its strong link with the past, Antren Trevalom Only to miles away, New York
arelu dauned away from Phifailed there was born here, and
tlikt ansteh of the Penneytymin | stately cominder. Everywinre,
Luependence city dave an energy and fadent. particularly, in
badly fanit no one lhes that, square,
Kui Philadelphia Han plenty to tronded as the Tower of Parys
he grufeful for The cost of liv cfort,
Philadelphin feels rightly outing here is much less than New Rents are two-thirds of York's. The big city's, You can even get
Freak for 10...
a worthwhile three-roum dat for £5.a week,
That's the surface story of Philadelphia's comparative pros- petity and true enough. Digging deeper, I found a nasty mess.
of place in the Atom Agë mi dreamy with austalgia of the Heart departed days when it was the It's that nu first city in the land. Longer.
New Yoric dwarfs it. Chicago has twice the size and power. Los Angeles is fast eriping up. Do troit packs more punch,
Yet Philadelphia is a good pluce in which to find out about Amerlea, to probe the slump and sniff the trend.
I talked about "sniffing" trend. The word is appropriate, breatise this in a malodorous city
The, ale is tainted by two of the country's dirtiest rivers, the The Delaware. of the Schulich and It's the Birmingham U.S., a sprawling city of 3,000,000 The city's drinking water, chemi- people in the metropolitan area) cally treated so that it fastes foul. comes from these rivers, and and a thousand-and-one trades,
It does business in steel, tex- there is plain need for tilen, oil, shipbuikiing, root beer, reservoir system,
U.S. Proposal To Atomic Body
Lake Success, July 20.
new
The United States today proposed that the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission should tell the General Assembly that further Com- mission mcetings would serve no practicable or useful purpose until the Big Five Powers and Canada come to an agreement.
The
United States delegate, nations, would render ineffectivo Mr. Frederick Osborn, fold the the prohibition of atomic wea-
would continue Commission that "recent debaten pons and and discussions in the Commis dangerous national rivalries สกต
the field of atomie energy. not bringing u Dre
The Working Committee
Commission on June 15 ap-
closer
any
the
in
of
a workable solution. to a the contrary, cussions only harden, the differ- proved, by vote u eight to onces with the Soviet delegates,* two, a Chinese proposal report- Mr. Osborne declared. "It is ap- ing its inability to arrive at any
that parent
these differences agreement. bc Pannot
"It asked that the Big Powers reconciled at the Com-
to Not como level. mission
Kome agreement before Commission has a heavy any more Committee meelings
make clear to were held. responsibility to a re-
Alie The the United Nations, and 10
Sovie! Union and world. just what is the nature Ukraina opposed the Chinese re- protested that the of the situation confronting the solution and Commission."
Committee should continue its The United
sessions. Egypt ntstained.
At today's meeting, the Sovjet Union and the Ukraine voiced their
10 preliminary objection the United States propoint. The Commission then adjourned and will meet on July 29.-Reuter,
а
crisis. A severd
spectacular. victories Europe and the Far in Eastern
East but it had also provoked #sarios of difficulties. He declared that in India the
Une hopeful sign of a break in ruthless, aggressive, and reckless
strike came to- explanation why, the 24-day-old Commun. policy pursued the
by
day when 1,000 men at the huge armed with its special onvergency
1,000 ists has won them many a news-
powers, the Government had not West India Dock voted for paper headline but has cost them
acted against mischief makers. lurn to work. But they post- friends and sympathisers.
The Minister of Labour. Mr. poned putting their decision in- very day the ranks of Com-
George
to effect until tomorrow's mass teft Istines, munist sympathisers grow thin-
Home Secretary, Mr. has tinder.
James meeting of dockers had voted. ner. Ultra-Leftism
stems from The stoppage mined the very foundations of Chuter Ede, to explain.
Ang British subject, the Home refusal of the dockers to work Communist strength in Indian labour," Mr. Mehta concluded, Secretary said, had the right to two Cunadian ships involved in
the worki-wide strike of come to Britain, and he had no Kouter.
power to deport him under the Canadian Seamen's Union-Reu- Emergency Powers or any other ter. Act. That was fundamental to the position of Britain As the metropolls of the Commonweahn. It was a nonsideration which did not arise in the other Do minions which had never claim- ed to be the father country ur
Commonwealth, the whole Hne Secretary continued.
Arrangements For Burma Well In Hand
London, July 21. Arrangements for meeting Burmese requirements of military equipment are so far as possible well in hand, Mr. Philip Noel-
the
Guerillas Aiding Offensive
the
не
States proposal asked that the Commission re- port that the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian Government "cort- tinue to reject the recommenda- tions of the Commission, approve ed by the General Assembly on November 4, 1948, including those forms at control contained
plen approved by
by the Gene- ral Assembly, as constituting the necessary busts for 4
in the
an erec
effective system of“ flonal control of atomic
sper
to ensure its use only for place- of purposes, and for the glumi-
•The
No Buying Out Of Service
the
Mr. Ede. said, "It is a matter
nation from national armomorila
London, July 21. for question and I am giving the
of atomic weapons in geordance
The British Army has partly closest attention to it; whether,
with the terms of reference of with the development of the
Rangoon, July 21.
the Atomic Energy Commission." Withdrawn the traditional re- of Commonwealthy and Empire and. Pro-government guerillos,
United. States
proposal ular soldier's privilege . Baker, Secretary for Common- the alterations of citizenship forging ahead of regular troops
would also report that the So- buying his way out of the ser wealth Relations told Parliament within that
congerle of nations, along monsoon-drenched West today.
day a manpower shortage in the powers right not to be taken Burma, on Wednesday entered viet Union and the Ukraine have vice. The War Office suid to-
continued to Mr. Walter Scott-Elliot, La-****
and look possession of Minhla, proposal to "prepare immediate armed forces throughout bour, had asked what had been "But I am, bound to point out the rice centre on the Rangoon ly separate conventions baselt on Empire is the region. done to give practical effect to
how fundamental it would be. the recent decision of India, Pakistan and Ceylon jointly with and the alteration it would make Prome railway, fofficial sources the proposals of the Soviet
reported today. the British Government to quest between this country and other
"Commonwealth' countries." the Government of Burma,
In this country.
Mr. Noel-Baker pepiled;" · "As Churchill Not Satisfied
on
Russian
of. June 1946. and 1037, WE regular army less than South of Provide, among, other things may still buy themselves out if
Minhla is 80 miles
national ownership of the communications, centre. Prome, which is the government's and
Winston robel drive.
Sources said these
of
the Under-Secretary for Foralgu This did not satisfy the Op-target in the West Burma anti- and for the national ownership, Agairs såld on June 27, the Gov-position leader, gruent of the Union of Burma Churchl.
du, not it, tha: moment propose to
Mr.
the
Soldiers who have served in the three ,for months or more than three years complicated explosive atomic materials they meet certain
requirements.
It costs a soldier £20 to £200 operation and management off
to buy his way back into private life. Plan Rejected
The War Office said it estimated The = proposals, ~~ cho......United that by !
-denying the privilege to Biated, -resolution points out, those who have served more than,
Jected |_ Ey" the General Three months, and, less than three November: 4 years, enough experienced inen would be kept in the service 'to' the alloy the shortage, st
Laynii. themselves of the oder or Burely; his, sald, citizens from | Known go "peace guerillas” | dangerous atomic' facliitles." •.
Jeft
Financial assistance made by heater part of the Commonwealth the regular-army-to-consaiļdate hat to confer to the laws of positions in Tharrwaddy and ad- ritish Government and stir the the Mother, Copnity. Could Mr. Vence into enemy territory to
irninmedia of 'India, Pakistans
dorobining with
க
then
More than 4,000 had bought their way out. since', the practice, would benned, shilly before: the war; Löt-kus=}, was "reduxtates a year ago. -Aske dydistrust.: among relates Prest
For hourly # century Phlin- delphia has been corrupt but con- Tested. It is racised by machine
the
hundredth the city. one-to elours up
of coramillee 15. appointed by harassed Mayor Bernard Samuel,
Its report, just Issued, churg- has been investigating local graft, ing wholesale conspiracy, outright thievery, political interference, falsification of ecords, rackets and personal eitpobity among Junbly placed officials, would rock Pritish city, but is taken mildly here,
I
The New Name 11 Is this apathy which Philadelphia's greatest shortcom~ ing and which, infuriates visiting Americutix.
At the moment about the only person Philadelphia is slightly excited about is Father Divine, Le Negro who used to call him- self God.
Father Divine, who noved in kare some years ago, after And- ing New York inhospitable, now ealls himself "the Great, Physi vin." Ilis half-dozen Heavens Are How named "Unity
ssions." Father Divine is a great power among the city's 300,000 Negroes and anong some of his whites. He had just bought the Trucy Hotel in mid-town for £50.00 and recently purchased the LOT- rame letel for £125,000.
His "Heavens" are very morab and, 1 sladd think, rather dull plates. But he has done a lot for the coloured folks, raised their standard of living, given them cheap restaurants-fried chicken for d-and thrown fear into the puliticians,
Night life in Philadelphia is a Hicitering candle compared with New York's, but is gathering brilliance. Frank Palumbo, the night club king-his Click Club is the biggest night-spot in the world, as large as
airshio powerful hangor-sa monarch than many of Manhal- tan's czars.,
more
an
There's not much talk of Bri- inin in Philadelphin, Hittle dis- cussion of the Marshall Plan, the Atlanfle Pact, of
cr MTKS for Western Europe, Philadelphia feels it has enough troubles un its hands without bothering too much about Europe's.
Footnote; The Story could have a tragic ending if the grafters
rumain authors.
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