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France Asks For Arms Aid
Paris, August 25.
The French Government to- day sent a note iq the Atlantic Pact Powers stressing her need for sufficient military aid to enable her to full her defence obligations.
Thug full text of the note was
as follows:
vote
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1949.
DON
IDDON'S
DIARY
American women now hold 32
That resounding crash you Socialism." could help send the hear is British prestige hitting Labour Party back to power with per cent. of the nation's savings,
rock-bottom.
a thumping majority, *If Mr. Attlee and
It has happened before on the
company roller-coaster of American public had hired American dichards to embarrass Britain's Conserva- have opinion, but always we
tives, they could hardly be doing bouneed back.
a more complete wrecking job.
"In pronouncing on July 21 in favour of ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty, the Council of
We will do so again, but this the Republic (French Upper time it is going to be much harder. There are some ominous noises House), interpreting the desire of the majority of the French Par-off-stage. There is, for instance,
the dreadful Hament, accompanied its
hand-rubbing of with the following motion:
smug reactionaries who, sitting in their treasure house of "The Council of the Republic. at the moment when it has Just given a favourable opinion on the BIL authorising the President of the Republie to ratify the Atlantic Pact, certain of interpreting the real wishes of French opinion,
invites the Government to use all Its authority with a view to obtaining.
(1) From the co-signatories of the Trenty. the necessary
composition of the subsidiary organisms and of the Defence Committee foreseen by Article of the Part, notably with regard to the representation of France
those organs.
on
chant: "We told you cialism won't work."
dollars, Bo-So-
There is the gleeful croon from Wall Street and big business, ob- viously happy over Socialist Bri- tain's discomfiture.
This "once over" business- Kingdom, once powerful Empire. "once Great Britain, once United
once free people"—is nauseating
nonsense.
Pat Tributes
and, with their husbands, another 44 per cent. So they have com- pletely, or partly, 78 per cent of those wonderful American dollars.
Dispatch Donat
Granger.
What obviously we should do is not send Cripps and Bevin, but dispatch Robert Danat, Stewart Jack Buchanan to Washington, and get James Mason out of his Hollywood hide-out.
Bruce Woodcock would also be welcome, for American boking is on the sick liat.
The Ezzard Charles-Gus Les- nevich night for the almost but not quite heavy-weight cham-
I am weary of it. I am weary also of the pat little tributes being paid to the German phoenix risi from its ashes; the slaps on the
for the There is the unrestrained song back
ex-back-stabber of celebration among professional italy: the compliments lavished onionship of the world Was Anglophobes and Isolationists. the Continental nations,
frightful flop. of These people want to see La-whom are alleged to be climbing bour Britain Wrecked and ruined.smartly to recovery while we dive The more acule the crisis the down to disaster.,
During the past few days the chorus of Hale has
tot louiler There are sheers and gibes and aunts at the Socialist sick man unpleasant to the ears.
Just Too Much
I have tried
to
present
the
to
When Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr. Bevin come here. I hope they apologining and will not come fawning.
If all they have in their brief- cases are nilbis, excuses, and re- quests for more Capitalist dollars, they may as well stay at home,
September could be our great month of opportunity.
Turning out our pockets and displaying our frayed shirts, hold- produce a contemptuous, huml- lating coin or two flung our way, but it will solve nothing.
(2) First, from the Govern-
of the United States ment
the supply. of modern armaments and equipment indispensable to give the French armies the means of American viewpoint lately, but fulfilling effectively the obliga- thear excesses are too much tions of defende and tusistance | stonmeh, which the Atlantic Pact involves." Blaming Socialism is one thing
"In accordance with the man---and no doubt the right thinging out our tattered caps may
Britain's date given to 11, the French Gov- but this wallowing in ernment has the honour bring travail is obscene. this text to the knowledge of the The extreme Right here, own-
QWB
co-signatories of the Treaty asing the factories, the big corpora being the expression of funda- tions, the railways, the wheat mental preocupations or
the the fields and offelds,
timber French nation and its responsible mills, the counting houses,
the leaders.
chain stores, and some ог the "The motion corresponds to the chain newspapers. now appar- profound conviction that inently wants to
our souls. dividual and collective defence More of this vilification could will be effectively assured only turn ever a bright blue British by the rapid and sufficient putting Tory to a Red,"
Another series like the current Into effect of military assistance on the one hund, and by the one in the Scripps-Howard news- establishment, at the earliest, of peper entitled: "Utopia' on the concrete organisation within rocks the shocking story of the conditions foreseen by Article what
happened to
han
a once
9, on the other hand,"Reuter. great nation after four years of
TITO ABANDONS GREEK GUERILLAS
Lake Success, August 25. The United Nations Balkan Commission today formally annorunced that Yugoslav aid to the Greek guerillas had "diminished and may have ceased."
In a formal report to the forthcoming General
Assembly session, the Commission said teams surveying North Greece in May had "formed the opinion that aid by Yugoslavia, particular- ly use of her territory by Greek guerrillas, had been limited.”
The Americans, holding hard to their money-bags, ask: "Have the British got a plan? Have they an alternative to sycophaney to Uncle Sam?"
the
If we have not, then we had better not bother to attend financial conference.
One of the great mistakes being made here (yes, Americans make them too) is the belief that the British have lost confidence their country and themselves.
Americans are confusing loss of confidence in the Socialist Gov-
in
crnment-confidence which some of us never had-with loss of con- fidence in Britain herself.
This is a big blunder, a tremen- dous misjudgment that we must show up.
Thunderstorms and floods have smashed the fantastic heat wave, but meteorologists say it will soon be back. And the official figures announcing 08deg. temperatures day after day are shown to be all wrong.
Rasping Heat
It was 93 degrees in the freely circulating air where the weather bureaux keep their thermometers, but down on the pavements, which millions of New Yorkers-and your correspondent-pound, It was 110 degrees and over.
The tiny crowd yawned. The crown hardly fits King Charles, and a white_hope_from Europe, particularly Brials would wo telise the sport, or industry.
Tommy Farr at his peak would have cut any of the present flock to pieces.
If we have not anyone better, Woodcock will be welcome.
also have to report a rise in New York rents; a rise in Ameri can tempers over by renewal of charges (this time by Lill, French dress designer) that Ameriesis are lousy lovers; the failure the Saratoga Springs racing sea- son; the national perplexity at General MacArthur's refusal come back home after all these years; and the revelation that an American's income tax in one-half terpart. to one-third of his British coun-
to
Ingrid Bergman, once the idol of American filmgoers, is getting almost as bad a Press as Britain. Everyone has turned against her critics, columnists, the empty. headed women's clubs, fans.
and the
Tallulah Bankhend has decided ta atur in a new play, "Lily Henry," this autumn after rend- ing hundreds of scripts. Britain's Basil Dean submitted the play and will stage the production.
The actress says of Denn: "He is one of the greatest directors I have ever worked with."
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Не Aying to Mexico to see her. Beatrice Lillie, due in London this week, will resume her tour of "Inside U.S.A." in October. She denies that John van Drulen is writing a.musical comedy for her.
New York's burlesque and strip-tease shows on 52nd-streat have been given n last warning by the police department. They will be shut if the undressing con- tinues.
Orson Welles's "Macbeth" is being given a complete renova- tion as a result of audience com- plaints about
he brought Rita's daughter, Re- becca, into the world.
the unintelligiblo Scottish brogue of the players.
Rita Hayworth's personal phy- One hundred and ten degrees to Cannes. He is one of Ameri- sician, Dr. Blake Watson, is flying of rasping, blazing, suffocating.ca's best-known obstetricians, and blistering heat-and you want to come to New York to make # living. eh?
Recovery from recession ald
tinues. The statistics prove it, although they are no confort to the 5,000,000 unemployed. Any- way, here has been upturn in American business and uplift in American spirits. Depression talk has disappeared.
con-
This vanishing act is partly due to a "boori America" campaign in all quarters.
The Commission added that it furnished some supplies of war was not able to check whether the materials". "However, this frontier had been closed tight, al- has diminished and may have though a broadcast by Marshal ceased." Tite that this would be done and Furthermore, the Commission altacks on Tito by the "Free said, the "Free Greece" radio hari Greece" radio indicated that the been transferred from Yugoslavia border might now be completely to Rumonia. This switch "has shut.
removed serious ground for com- As for Greece's other two plaint and offers further hope for Northern neighbours, Bulgaria and improved relations between Albania, the. Commission sald, Greece and Yugoslav". He said "they have continued 10 give Rumania, which has no frontier The citizens are being told that moral and material assistance to with Greece, had aided the Greek they have more motor-cars, more the Greek guerilla movement", } querilla movement in several telephones, more refrigerators.. It added that Albania
more ice-cream was the ways.
sodas, more chief source of material assist In addition to allowing the motion-picture stars, more candy
"Free Greece" radio to operate bars, more atom
bombs, more from its territory, the Commis- lovely women, more handsome sion said, there was evidencemen than anywhere else on earth. Rumania had provided facilities These are nice things to be told. for treating wounded and sending The fact that Americans have also them back to the fighting areas more ulcers, more neurotics, more and had also tried to transport" alcoholics, more criminals, more Greek children taken from their grafters, and more banalfiles is The nine-nation, on-the-spot with the guerilla forces.-United
homes back to Greece as recruits not touched upon. Commission was set up two years Press. ago. Russia and Poland, which were assigned the 10th and 11th spots on the Commission, nover
ance.
The Commission said, "Albania and Bulgaria have directly en- couraged and Incited the Greek guerillas in their attempts to overthrow the Greek govern- ment."
Never Joined
Joined it and the
group
00
was
its
never allowed to carry watchdog duties inside Yugoslavia, Bulgaria or Albania.
The report to the forthcom. Ing Assembly sald Albania and Bulgarla had supplied the Greek querillas with "large quantities of war material and other sup. pline, thus enabling tham to continue fighting." Yugoslavia, the report said, "continued to give moreland material aid to the guariifan during the courty part of the period covered" October 1948 to July, 1948.
It said Yugoslavia allowed the use of its territory for the passage of guerilias to and from Greece, facilitated the return to Greece of querilias after hospitalisation and
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