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NEHRU TO GET OVERALL PICTURE OF U.S. PLAN TO STOP REDS IN ASIA
Two Seamen Gaoled For Assault
London, September 22. Two Canadian seamen, former members of the crew of the Cana- diar ship, Beaverbrae, were sen- tenced here today to 18 months' imprisonment each for an attack on other members of the crew.
The men, 22-year-old Allan Joseph McIsaac and Gerald Fre- derick Doucette, also 22, were said
to have attacked William Bell and Donald Hudson in a London public house while the Beaverbrae was strike-bound in London Both Bell and Hudson bad returned to the ship before the end of the strike.
Four other defendants, Robert Easton, Vernon Walker, William McPherdan and Arthur Fisher, were acquitted on all counts.
The Broken Bottle
Washington, September 22.
The Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, is ex- pected to give the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, a complete picture of the United States plan to block the spread of Com munism in Asia when Mr. Nehru visits the United States in October.
A high American official said while there was no formal agenda for discussions between Mr. Nehru and officials here, Mr. Acheson un- doubtedly would tell the Indian Prime Minis- ter of plans to support and strengthen nation- alist governments in South East Asia as a bar- rier to further Communistic inroads in the. For East.
The
informant said in addition Mr. Acheson would review for Mr. Nehru the decisions on Far Eastern policy arrived at by Mr. Acheson and the British Foreign Minister, Mr. Ernest Bevin, and the French Foreign Minister, Mr. Robert Schuman, during their recent meeting here.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1949.
DON
IDDON'S
でも
DIARY
Money Means Nothing To The Mormons
-Among the Mormons there is hardly a murmur about the finati- cial talks.
The programme has become so pre-echo in any Anglo-American vast that now the Mormon discussion in Salt Lake. Church has its own grain eleva- Although, the Mormon Church,
its Salt Lake City is as placid and tors, dairies, canneries, and cloth- with
1,000,000 members anmoved by the dollar confering factories. There are dozens throughout the world, its huge ence as the great dead lake It of storehouses in Utah and else holdings in property, banks, and
elf.
where to provide for and cloth-department stores, thrives and Local
newspaper and radio
for the poor. ing
expands, Salt Lake City belt
a rich tow No one subscribes money. Each not a
This is the coverage is comprehensive, edi- torial comment is cordial and member of the Church contributes home of the middle class. There generous, but the people are not something to the various store are no big spenders here, little
with houses-labour, themselves concerning
ostentation.
The tourists materials, pounds, shillings, and pence or agricultural products, or his own pilgrims trekking round Temple. dollars and cents.
particular skill and craftsman-square with cameras, sandwiches, ship.
and vacuum flasks are modestly dressed.
Here, in this hushed and holy city, isolated in the Rocky Moun tains, money matters
seem out
of place. Talking business here would be like trying to close a deal in a church.
the
Western towns.
raw
+
and
This is a plain town, immacu- lately clean, with broad, steep | streets, mediocre shops, and one magnificent hotel, the Utah.
It is probably the most moral in the and God-fearing city United States. There is scarcely any crime, no rackets, no corrup tion. It is a dry town-liquor
half-dozen cannot be bought at bars, and the
parlours
are
beer drab and dull.
There is no night Efe, no high
Woman's Place
Mercy Supplies
Hage supplies of food and Salt Lake City is a shrine. It clothing are sent to Europe every week The Mormons believe they the heart and headquarters of Church of Jesus Christ of
have adjusted their 20th-century living to the standards laid Latter Day Saints, The great
down by Christ 20 centuries ago. Mormon temple, the huge taber-
Holding firmly to this philo nasie, dominates the tou
Even the routine Main Street,sophy, they are spiritually in capable of criticising Britain fo with its cheap shops, cut-rate seeking further help, and their stores, its fruit-stands and shoe daily
newspaper, the shine parlours, looks lest garish News,
Deseret official
the itaks. organ of than the chief artery of other Church, has urged more succour for the British. When I mention- Mr. Acheson was said to be sirable to give oficial status to
ed to brothers of the Church the particularly anxious that Mr. the Chinese. Reds.
Mr. Nehru also will be given
rampaging Chicago Tribune and Salt Lake City makes no claims United Nehru understands the
the brutal Press comment in to greatness except as a great re States position on Far Eastern information on an American plan
Religion, the Mormon religion some New affairs since he was counting to work out a new approach to
said: "You will find no-
that it has the lowest death-rate heavily on India to provide the the holding of a Japanese peace rules the city. This is plain as merely a York newspapers they ligious centre. If points out also the The thing like that here." While this approach soon as you arrive here.
and highest birth-rate in East conference, of South rallying point
been determined, hotel man who met me at the
I have not I have Lound
country
Although plural mar. Asian resistance to Communism. has not yet
among ordinary members of the riage was abolished long ago, Salt Mr. Acheson is expected to ex-high American officials told the station refused a cigarette.
Church some criticism of British Lake's women are inclined to be the United United Press that something in bappen to be a Mormon." He
Socialism. Mormans shur Gov-, slightly subservient to their hus- plain to Mr. Nehru States believes the strengthening the nature of a proposal probably started it al"
And when,
it was because
13- ernment interference. perhaps bands-at least, that is my of South Eastern Asian countries will be forthcoming within the
night, I said: "I hope I get an
because they had to battle Gov-pression. In nation famous for next few weeks, is a necessary prerequisite
air-conditioned room," he replied: erament-inspired persecution for spoiling its women, Salt Lake stands out as a rugged monument consideration of any Pacific Union al-such as has been proposed by the
"No air-conditioned rooms at the so long.
to masculinity. Hotel Utah-that would be in- Philippines President, Mr. Elipidio
terfering with God's air." Quirino.
Sentencing the two convicted men, the Judge said that they' must learn that in England next to cold steel the use of broken bottles is regarded as the most despicable.
Hudson and Bell both received hospital treatment after the tack, which took place on July 24.
The Beaverbrac and another Canadian ship, the Argomont were help up in London from April to the end of July by the strike which was called by Canadian Seamen's Union.
the
fo
be - In this respect it will teresting to recall remarks made earlier by Mr. Nehru who said it was premature to consider Pacific alliance until the instabi- COUN-
China Issue
The Judge added. "I am pre-lity in South East Asian pared to think that after you had tries has been overcome, been on strike for some time. been running feeling may have high, but it is manifest that you two, and others unknown, com- bined together out of pure resent- ment after this strike was over to get what you thought was your own back on two men who had defaulted."
!
Before being sentenced; Dou- cette protested his innocence from the Dock and said that he would like to appeal.
Melsaac said that Doucette's feelings.
be
shand
The State Secretary also-in- tends to explain to Mr. Nehru all the reasons which motivated British-American decision the
to
the
much detail on
bot
Religion Rules
is
Mr. Nehru and Mr. Acheson will have little, if any, opportunity the to go into Asian situation. Mr. Nehru's visit
The Mormons are used to tour- is principally a "goodwill" mis" sion and his four-day schedule ists and gapers. They must be in Washington is packed with sick to death (though they never engagements and social functions. show it) of the habitual ques-
N However,
officials said
polygamy now, there Lions: would be time to sandwich in there-a man has to keep to one "Aren't the Mormon several intimate discussions
on wife?" Asian affairs-United Press. women supposed to be the most. beautiful in the United States?" Where are the bearded brothers
What And on the streets?" about the ritual long underwear Mormons are supposed to wear?! My main questions, naturally, have dealt with the feeling to- wards the British, the continuing quest to find what Americans are really thinking.
Journalist's Statement Attacked
sian
the
They recoil from the idler who thinks the State owes him a living.
The sentence "If à man won't work he can't eat" is inclined to
Monsoon Damage
Bombay
In
Bombay, September 22. Bombay's second heaviest mon- soon downpour un record. today paralysed communications and en- forced a holiday for mills, fac tories, banks, offices and schools.
More
to write off the Chinese Nation- alist government It is con- sidered probable Mr. Acheson will reiterate to Mr. Nehru the United States hope previously
The Hague, September.
In Salt Lake City the feeling other Indian
Republican towards Britain is warmly affec The expressed
Indonesian
to will not delegation diplomats that India
round-table tionate. Many Mormons are of be unduly hasty in considering conference on the Dutch-Indone- British 'stock. Among Brigham
Union Chinese
today protested Young's men who made the long recognition of Communists but wait and act against the malevolent statements journey West over the treeless In concert with the United about the Indonesians.
prairies and the baking deserts, States and Britain.
statement issued by the dele- through the mountain passes to
Also,
were gation protested against the dis- the gleaming salt Bats of the Americans the
tribution to conference delegations huge lake, were many Britons. decided to understood to have
Netherlands-American
helped to make the de- They he survey the situation and act to- by The Quartermasters on the Beaverbrae. gether on recognition if and when Chamber of Commerce copies of sert bloom and built a new Pro
Indonesia by en mised Land. Today there it should ever be considered dean address on
Reports from flooded (William scores of British Mormons here, American journalist
districts Mathers), who was one of 15 people from Coventry and Burn this afternoon said that it was correspondents killed in a KLM ley and Northampton and Numsa- still pouring down heavily from Constellation crash near Bombayton, and more are coming.
a downcast sky.. last July.
All the defendants had pleaded Not Giulty.
Bath McIsaac and Dousette were
-Reuter.
Airlines To Increase
Fares From Soft
Currency Areas To U.S.
London, September 22.
An emergency meeting in London of the Interna- tional Air Transport Association decided to- day 'to increase the fares of airlines operating services from soft currency areas to the Ameri- can Continent.
Sir William Hildred,, Director General of the IATA,
announced the decision tonight.
The conference decided today that there would be no increase in sterling fares from Britain to Europe, India, the Middle East, the Far East, Australia or South Africa.
This decision means reductions in the dollar fares charged by American companies with East- ward services into these areas.
It is understood that these dol-
single fare jumps from £87 -
£125.
Fares To S. America Fares from Britain to South America and from Australia to Canada will also be affected On the latter route fares will be rais-
OK
to compensate for the devalua- tion of the Australian pound, but
the London to South America"
there routes
to is be a special ar-
far as Dakar, West Africa, will be charged on a sterling basis and beyond Dakar on a dollar basis.
lar cuts are likely to mean sub- rangement whereby the fight as
American
stantial losses to operators.
Britons dying to New York this winter will not feel the full ef- fects on fares of the devaluation of the pound as a special excur- sion fare had already been an- nounced to operate from Octo- ber 1,
The final result will be that the present retum fare of £156
($436.80) will jump to £166.
But for these excursion.fares
Detailed rates on all routes are being worked out by experts and
will be announced in a day or
two.
Thirty-two companies from 25 countries were represented at the conference, which was called at 36 hours' notice.
The new fares will operate from October 1 but are regarded as is likely
there would have been a 30 provisional The whole subject
per cent Increase in the nor
to be discussed - again mal£ 156 return fare. But when the next full' meeting of those making a one-way trip | the IATA' takes place on Novem- will feel the full force of the ber 8-probably in Mexico City. devaluation of sterling, as the
Reuter.
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The statement said that it came as an unpleasant surprise that this should have been done by such a responsible body.
Friendly City
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There are more than 30,000 Mermons in Britain itself. In any case, there is no hostile feeling in Salt Lake City to people of any
than 26 inches of rain fell in 32 hours from storm that Arabian Sea swept in from the across a 320-kilometre strip on the Deccan Plateau to the Bay of Bengal const
in Bombay, as much as three and a half inches of rain fell in one 45-minute period.
Santa Cruz Airport had a foot water in and around the run- ways, hangars and terminal of- fices.
A three-storied building collapsed in the swirling food waters. Several minor fires fol
I alleged that the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, in an accompanying article, makes disparaging remarks about the Indonesians, gives a deliberately prejudice, or discrimination, Allowed electric short circuits.
It is not a city of hot anger,
false representation of Bitfairs,
non-Mormons are called "Gen- and completely distorts the pro- | tiles," whether Catholic, Protes hlems related the matters tant, or Jew.
under discussion.
now
One of the main pillars of the The publication of such state- Mormon Church is the welfare ments can be extremely harmful | programme, the wonderfully suc- to the negotiations
taking cessful plan of mutual aid' It is place, the Indonesian delegation not a Church "dole" or a State stated. "We can hope that such hand-out. It is a living example malevolent statements will cease of share and share alike. *The so that further negotiations at Church takes care of its own, and The Hague can take place on a
does not (and did not in the basis of reasonableness 2nd co- great depression) go running to operation."-Reuter,
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Although Salt Lake City is with Mormonism synonymous
There there are other interests.
for instance, the Great Salt Lake itself. This is West of the city.
is,
15 miles
It is still re-
ceding gradually, drying up. drove there with a local reporter, who called it "Utah's biggest La- bility.
and had a look at the
phenomenon.
It was
shrouded in mist, dirty white, uninviting, almost sinister mist. My newspaperman said.I would float like a cork if I cared. to bathe, and told me that it contained approximately 27 per
and, except cent, salt
for the Dead Sea, is the saltiest body of water in the world.
Bonneville Salt Flats, where so many Englishmen have broken so many records is a three-hour drive (at normal speed) from the centre of the town, and it may be that some of our high prestige in these parts is due to men like Malcolm Campbell George Eys ton, and John Cobb.
No one can tell anybody lia Utah that the British are slow. Because of our speed records. British engineering is considered supreme by most local people.
At the Associated Press bureau a rewrite man said: "We can't make cars like you folk”
Even so, there is not much chance of selling British goods in this area. Our prices are out of Salt Lake's and Utah's income range.
They want mostly cheap, mak produced goods, and they don't. drink Scotch and cannot afford our sports cats,
A pity because these are cur sort of people. Salt Lake scorns the gibe that the trouble with America's foreign relations is that they are all broke.
FOOTNOTE: This Western trip is revealing not the barbed wire of anti-British feeling but gold of good will.
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